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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Strong Ties"”.
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The Effects of Strong Ties on Socialization
… objectives. First, two types of antecedents to strong tie development are explored: orientation practices deployed by organizations to promote interaction between newcomers and social agents; and proactive behaviors that newcomers exhibit toward social agents to foster strong relationships. The …
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California Bookstores: Passion and Profit
… in California, the findings demonstrate strong ties between passion and profit. Independent booksellers dedicate capacity for resilience, dedication to core values such as responsibility to the store community and the community at large, and skilled use of retailer tools such as …
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Imperialism, postimperialism and Iran
… well suited to the Iranian case because of the strong ties that Iran under the Shah had with the international community.
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An Architecture of Belonging
… world and especially in China, places that have strong ties to the particularities of a locale are desirable destinations to escape the generic monotony of placeless urbanization. The thesis here stipulates that even in a placeless globalization, opportunities exist to understand, interpret and …
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Unsustainable and Uncontrolled: Framing Immigration During the Brexit Campaign
… to immigration’s overall salience and strong ties to Leave.
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Motivations and Outcomes of Firms' Leveraging of Alliance Knowledge
… alliances, such as repeated partnerships and strong ties. I test related hypotheses using longitudinal data from the U.S. biopharmaceutical industry. Results show that: 1) innovation performance below the aspiration level has an inverted U-shaped relationship with alliance knowledge search, …
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Analysis of robotic systems test methods targeting test resource utilization improvement
… focus on quality improvement demonstrates the strong ties from the robot manufacturers to the final end user customers. By analyzing the robotic production and test systems, the author identifies three areas for the focus of experiments: 1) Test effectivity, 2) Component failure, 3) Robot …
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Social Capital and the Urban Informal Economy:The Case of Street Vendors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… the poor by providing income generating opportunities. Accordingly, formalizing informal sector activities has become one of the priorities of micro-enterprise programs. The main aspect of micro-enterprise programs is the use of social capital as a substitute for collateral in providing credit and …
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Local Color's Finest Hour: Kentucky Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
… from Kentucky, living in Kentucky, or with strong ties to the state. The texts themselves illustrated these ties, as they all focused on or related to Kentucky at the time. </p> <p>The data that was gathered for this thesis came directly from the writings themselves. In order to research the …
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Making serendipity stick : translating short, live online interactions into meaningful relationships
… gatherings and virtual conversations. Forming strong ties with people at conferences is much easier offline, than online, where it is easy to get distracted and harder to reach out and connect. This thesis extends Unhangout, a platform for online unconferences, and investigates how we can help …
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An exploratory study on the use of social media as a business networking tool: the case of four female-owned fashion retail businesses in the Stellenbosch area, Cape Town
… existing business networks and the working activities of the female entrepreneurs; with both weak and strong ties playing a vital role towards cementing these connections.
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Gold, Grain, and Grace: Piety and Community in Late Medieval Rome
… of pious giving, ways of generating kin-like ties by means of circulating wealth within the sphere of economic action made available by the logic of purgatory. Their efforts succeeded in creating a ruling group marked by strong ties of social solidarity. Over time, these strategies also had …
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The Association Between Co-authorship Network Structures and Successful Academic Publishing Among Higher Education Scholars
… network structure of both structural holes and strong ties may be possible. The data suggested that co-authoring multiple times with the same scholars (mean tie strength) may be critical to realizing the potential value buried within the structural holes (Burt, 2001).</p>
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Strength matters : tie strength as a causal driver of networks' information benefits
… After all, even if job seekers have social ties to those who have valuable job information, the seekers will gain little information benefit when the ties do not actually transmit the information. This paper clarifies the conditions under which social ties might provide information benefits. …
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Defending Canada: Canadian Military Preparedness, 1867- 1902
… the Canadian population that continued to have strong ties to the Empire. This transition from reliance, to obstinacy, and finally to reluctant cooperation, demonstrates that Canada attempted to become more autonomous as the decades passed, a stage that was later reached during the First World …
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Black Power in a "Lily-White" School: The Black Campus Movement at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota
… “integration.” For the colleges and universities in the upper Midwest, these reforms included minority student recruitment and the creation of programs oriented towards diversity. Over time, a number of minority students began to act and react to the actions and attitudes of the various …
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Is China the Answer? The Effect of Chinese Engagement on Economic and Human Development in Africa
… South Africa. This research tests whether having strong ties with China improves both economic and human development in Africa, aiming to determine whether states that derive high trade volumes, infrastructure financing, or foreign direct investment from China experience a trickle-down effect into …
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Metal music as critical dystopia : humans, technology and the future in 1990s science fiction metal
… musical works examined in this thesis maintain strong ties with the science fiction genre, in particular, and tum to science fiction conventions in order to examine the long-term implications of humanity's complex relationship with advanced technology. Situating metal's engagements with science …
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Erinnern ist Frauensache? - Frauen als "Erinnerungsspeicher" in Tanja Dückers' Roman "Himmelskörper"
… evidence exposing her grandparents as Nazis with strong ties to the NS party. In Himmelskörper Dückers demonstrates how to remember German wartime suffering without lessoning German wartime crimes, while simultaneously articulating the extent to which specific gender roles are embedded in stories …
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A regulatory framework for psycho-legal assessments in South Africa
… States of America. Both jurisdictions have strong ties to South Africa and a rich history concerning regulating psycho-legal assessments and psychological and psychiatric evidence in general. Drawing from the regulatory frameworks in the comparator countries recommendations for the South …
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