Points of view

I have five different people, all talking about the same project.

They seem to have overlaps of their perspectives of accountability, but also there are two different views. One is absolutely sure accountability existed all the way through this project and can immediately indicate lines and mechanisms of accountability. Another sees gaps. How do I reconcile these two views? I suspect that they are both right; that there was accountability but that accountability was only clear for the first phases of the project and not in later parts.

Agency theory suggests that information asymmetry between agent and principal means the principal wants information that the agent possesses. So if there is a public-sector manager who doesn't yet feel confident that she/ he knows what he /she wants to know, then the temptation to prolong the contract must exist.