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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Informal ties"”.
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Imperial Intentions and Independent Interests: The Ohio Company of Virginia and its Agents, Thomas Cresap and Christopher Gist, 1748--1752
… only imperial tie, there were many formal and informal ties that bound the Ohio Company to governmental officials. These ties often make it difficult to determine if Cresap and Gist were bring employed by the Ohio Company or the British Empire. This thesis explains the relationship between the …
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Do Malaysian spin-offs create value?
… for either parents or spun-off entities.Overall, the results of the research allow us to plausibly argue that the market anticipates bothincreased value for parent shareholders and potential exploitable stock market inefficiency inthe short-run period but not in the long-run.The …
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The perceived fairness of ethnic ties-based hiring and promotion in Chadian PSOs
This thesis examines the use of ethnic ties in hiring and promotion and its perceived fairness within the multi-ethnic Chadian Public Sector Organisations. The role of social ties in hiring and promotion has been a subject of debate. On the one hand, it is characterised as nepotism or favouritism …
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The politics of health taxes: Understanding the power and influence of the food and alcohol industries in New Zealand
… the agenda. Still, its power—partly derived from informal ties to politicians and officials—was still sufficient to prevent major policy change. The alcohol industry’s structural power also played a role. An important finding of this research is that power operates via anticipated reactions. …
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A Family Affair: The Political Economy of Media Ownership in the Republic of Korea (1998-2012)
… among media expansions, media ownership and informal ties (e.g., blood and marriage ties); and (3) the relationship between the changed structures of those four media markets and corporate censorship of the three chaebol groups. To address these questions, I used both institutional and …
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Social Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing within and across Organizations
… to the roles social technologies play in informal knowledge sharing practices, both within and across organizations. Social technologies include (a) traditional social technologies (e.g., email, phone and instant messengers), (b) emerging social networking technologies commonly known as …