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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Geographic Proximity"”.
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How Geographic Proximity to the Kennedy Space Center Effects Attitudes Relating to NASA
… be beneficial for NASA to look to its existing geographic footprint for areas of deeper support to provide elected leaders with an electoral justification to support NASA missions. The areas with the greatest chance of generating support for NASA are spaceports due to the rocket launches they …
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The relationship between geographic proximity and strategic posture: a longitudinal study of the U.S. fiberoptics industry
… of this study is to investigate implications of geographic location for firm strategy and for the competitive climate in emerging higher technology industries. Hypotheses are generated based on concepts from institutional theory, transaction costs economics, economic geography, and strategic …
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Informal Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients: The Impact of Geographic Proximity on Social Support and Bereavement Adjustment
… prospective design to explore how a caregiver's geographic proximity impacted their social support and bereavement adjustment. A 2 x 3 repeated measures design was used to gather data from caregivers before a patient's death (using a pre-death questionnaire) as well as after the death (by …
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Does Similarity Produce Synergy in Horizontal Hospital Acquisitions? Linking Operations Characteristics to Operations Strategy
… this dissertation examines the direct effects of geographic proximity and the service overlap on an acquired hospital’s post-acquisition operational performance (i.e., cost and quality) and its post-acquisition service-mix changes. The dissertation presents the findings from two essays. The first …
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Essays on the political economy of service provision
… bureaucratic efficiency increases with social proximity among bureaucrats. I find that social proximity, as proxied by geographic proximity, increases bureaucratic efficiency. However, in line with theoretical expectations, geographic proximity is less likely to lead to high bureaucratic …
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A Study of NHL Fan Identification in Red Deer, Alberta
… attention has been given to situations where geographic proximity is likely to have little to no influence in the development of sport fan identification, and how individuals choose teams instead. The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand how hockey fans chose their …
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Why some were so fast while others not : speed of entry as a new competitive asset in late-industrialization
… given that the relevant theories highlight geographic proximity for generating externalities, we have suggested different measurements of geographic proximity for international learning, a distance from the headquarters of the partner firm and an international joint venture.
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Task-Aware Spatial and Temporal Aggregation for Capacity Expansion Planning
… on heuristics like political boundaries or geographic proximity. In contrast, we propose a task-aware pipeline that treats aggregation as an integral modeling decision, explicitly aligned with planning objectives. The approach builds a composite similarity metric that blends diverse …
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The Effects of Geography and Proximity on Board of Directors: An Exponential Random Graphs Approach
… dissertation aims at exploring how physical proximity, among other geographical elements, affects the synthesis of boards of directors, the decisions executives make, and, in general, organizations. Drawing on the rich literature in economic geography, these studies focus on re-evaluating the …
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Physician behavior and technology diffusion in health care
Chapter 1 examines geographic variations in physician practice styles by exploring the role of physician-specific factors such as preferences and learned behavior versus environment-level factors such as hospital capacity. I exploit cardiologist migration across geographic regions and find that …
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Institutional Investor Cliques Information Dissemination, and the Value of Information: Evidence from Insider Trading
… (e.g., personal ties, professional ties, geographic proximity) to construct the social network, I document the formation of the institutional investor groups (cliques) that exogenously connect firm-level insiders within the social network. Using difference-in-differences designs examining …
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Dispersed concentration of high-tech jobs in the new economy : the paradox of new information and communication technologies
… However, regional scientists articulate that geographic proximity is still important, at least, to the high-tech industry and the knowledge-related business activities. My research offers a ground work for understanding the paradox - more dispersed high-tech business practices and higher …
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The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa
… Cape of South Africa. While occurring in geographic proximity within the Winter Rainfall Region, each of the pan-lunette clusters is hosted by different substrates, subjected to different coastal climate regimes and exhibits different morphology, orientation of features, and …
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An inductive investigation into relationships between geographically co-located actors : the contribution of relationship marketing to regional competitiveness
… drawn from this outwith literature is that of geographic co- location, the phenomenon of geographic proximity between businesses and other organisations. This thesis isolates and defines two modes of regional marketing activity, a defensive and an offensive variant. It is to the defensive …
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Aftermath of 9-11: stress levels during January 2002 from Manhattan to California
… that those people who were in closest geographic proximity to the disasters would have the highest levels of stress. The present study consisted of 96 respondents. 22 of those were within a 20-mile radius of the attack on 9-11. 36 respondents were from distances over 600 miles, …
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Radioanalytical multi-elemental analysis : new methodology and archaeometric applications
… that there is a clear correlation between geographic proximity and chemical composition. Titanium and barium are often used for characterizing obsidian, especially in areas in Africa. A method has been developed to analyze for these elements using epithermal neutron activation analysis, …
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From empire to hegemony : the dynamics of U.S. relations with Cuba and Mexico, 1930-1940
… social, and economic systems in addition to geographic proximity. The major difference between the 1930s and the earlier and later periods was that the U.S. government decided to change the nature and practice of its relationship with Latin America in response to domestic American pressure …
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Optimizing logistics in a lean international supply chain
… relatively inexpensive labor force and is within geographic proximity of the US. Tier One suppliers have also relocated some operations to Mexico, such as American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) and its Guanajuato Gear & Axle (GGA) facility, where this study was performed. While the proportion of …
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Sibling interaction in adulthood
… and demographic characteristics of the siblings. Geographic proximity was also examined. The investigation utilized adult respondents over 25 years of age, with living siblings. The sample was drawn from the Roanoke, Virginia, urbanized area using a two-stage systematic design involving telephone …
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The Effects of Perceived Life Threat and Direct Exposure on Psychopathology in Parents and Their Young Children Following the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center Attacks
… trauma. Additionally, research has shown that geographic proximity to a traumatic event plays a role in identifying those with increased psychological distress. One's subjective experience of a traumatic event, and in particular, one's perception of threat to life, also appears to be important …
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