Agency

Agency may refer to:

Organizations

• Institution, governmental or others
  • Advertising agency or marketing agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients
  • Employment agency, a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another
  • Government agency, a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function
    • Central Intelligence Agency, nicknamed "The Agency"
  • International agency, an inter-governmental body
  • News agency
  • Talent agency
• Highways Agency, (now National Highways) manages motorways and some major roads in England

Social science

• Agency, the abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves; see Autonomy
• Agency (law), a person acting on behalf of another person
• Agency (moral), capacity for making moral judgments
• Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an autonomous agent to act, relating to action theory in philosophy
• Agency (psychology), the ability to recognize or attribute agency in humans and non-human animals
• Agency (sociology), the ability of social actors to make independent choices, relating to action theory in sociology
• Agency and structure, ability of an individual to organize future situations and resource distribution

Places

• Agency (administrative division)
• Agency, Iowa, US
• Agency, Missouri, US
• Agency, Montana, US
• Agency Township (disambiguation), name of townships in four US states

Arts, entertainment and media

• Agency (novel), a science fiction novel by William Gibson
• The Agency (comics)
• The Agency: Covert Ops, a spy-themed massively multiplayer online shooter video game

Film and television

• Agency (film), 1980 Canadian film starring Lee Majors
• The Agency (2001 TV series), an American action-drama
• The Agency (2007 TV series), an American reality series
• Morgana Robinson's The Agency, a 2016 British TV mockumentary
• The Agency, a fictional government organization in the 2000 TV series The Invisible Man
• Agency (South Korean TV series), a 2023 television series
• The Agency (2024 TV series), an American espionage thriller

Other uses

• Agency in Mormonism, "the privilege of choice... introduced by God"
• Agency security, securities issued by government-sponsored enterprises, often simply referred to as "Agency"
• Agency debt, US government-sponsored agency bonds

See also

• Agent (disambiguation)
• Free agency (disambiguation)
• Agency dilemma or principal–agent problem, in political science, supply chain management and economics