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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"partner selection"”.
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Romantic partner selection in a religious marriage market.
Partnering is an inherently social process. Not only do social status characteristics provide markers of compatibility in the partner search, but the broader romantic proclivities, opportunities, and capacities that constitute partnering are also socially determined. This study examines romantic …
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Partner selection in post-reform China: Power, privilege, and norms
… the social life, specifically the marriage and partner selection in the post-Reform China. How did individuals embedded in a society of strong state influence respond to new opportunities, incentives, and constraints that seemly emphasizes individualism? Who gained and who lost power in partner …
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Is intuition an influential factor in marital partner selection? A qualitative study
… factor in a couple's experience of selecting a partner and choosing to marry. The theoretical frameworks that guided this study were phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, and symbolic experiential family therapy. The research included 20 participants who completed individual face-to-face …
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Supply Partner Selection for the Co-Development of Innovative Products: The Key Role of Reputation
… is to develop and test a framework of industrial partner selection by integrating constructs from the informational economics, social exchange, and organizational buying behavior literatures. A new construct, supplier reputation, is defined and its properties are proposed. A three stage model of …
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Lovesick: the effects of political partisanship and COVID-19 vaccine perceptions on online romantic partner selection
… and females have higher dating intention with partners that have political similarity. However, females have higher dating intention with partners who share vaccine similarity while males have no relationship between vaccine similarity on dating intention. The implications of these findings may …
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The relationships between selected strategic alliance factors and the success of strategic alliances between United States casino hotels and restaurants
… as offering attractive benefits. Such a partnership can enhance their competitive edge, improve hotels' revenues and boost their reputation; The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of strategic alliances between U.S. casino hotels and restaurants by examining the …
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Markets for Research: A Matching Approach to University-Industry Research Collaborations
… and substitution among the alliance partners. Second, by identifying the characteristics that drive the matching of firms and faculty, the model explains why certain firm-scientists partnerships attain superior performance. It also generates useful insights for firms that seek to …
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Factors That Affect College Students' Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating
… examine racial identity salience and its role in partner selection.
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Operationalising Trust for Supply Chain Sustainability and Resilience
… revealed key dynamics of trust within business partnerships and their influence on both sustainability and resilience. From this analysis, 59 observations were identified, covering partnership dynamics, trust dynamics, and their impacts on sustainability and resilience outcomes. Each observation …
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Finding Mr. Wrong: Divergences in Mate Preferences and Mate Selection
When asked to choose among secure or insecure partner prototypes, research has shown that people tend to select secure individuals as their first choice. Despite this pattern, in reality not everyone selects secure partners. The goal of the current study was to examine some of the underlying …
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An analysis of structure and process of corporate alliance development using system architecture frameworks
… alliance includes many different types of partnerships, including licensing in and out, joint product development, minority equity investments, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. These alliances involve many distinctive participants inside and outside a corporation and for this …
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Intimate Relationships Of Adults Raised In Same-Sex Families
… with their parents, peers, romantic partners, and others, their experiences with heterosexism, their experiences coming out, and their perspectives on sexuality and gender.</p> <p>In accordance with GT, the data was analyzed by following three general steps: (a) creating codes for …
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The antecedent factors and entry mode choice of multinational lodging firms: the case of growth strategies into new international markets
… weaknesses in tangible and intangible assets and partner selection criteria. These factors were found to have an important influence on the entry mode choices of the five participating multinational lodging companies.
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The Characteristics of Sino-Taiwanese Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China
… the effectiveness of Taiwanese joint venture partners by overcoming unanticipated external environmental factors and enabling them to deal with the complex internal managerial issues associated with the Chinese market. The different political and economic relations between Taiwan and China …
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Power allocation for cooperative wireless networks
… errors and delays, optimization through partner selection and power allocation gives a practical performance gain of 2-4dB over equal power allocation, even in the case where only averaged channel state information is used. Furthermore, we found that a theoretical gain of 6-8dB can be …
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Marriage And Family In India
… of family life in contemporary India, marriage partner selection and female seclusion, using three different data sources: 48 interviews with the middle-class in New Delhi, panel survey data from the India Human Development Survey, and survey data from the Center for the Advanced Study of India …
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Acquirer reputation in mergers and acquisitions
… making, employee retainment, cost reduction, and partner selection have been studied and documented by academics. Despite this, there have been insufficient studies on reputation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. M&As are an important corporate strategy that firms use to survive and …
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Bluestocking philosophy : aspects of female aristocratic thought in eighteenth-century England.
… of life, particularly towards marriage and partner selection. Chapter l explores the aristocratic origins and values of the bluestocking circle. Chapter 2 discusses their religious beliefs and chapter 3 their understanding of social duties and relationships. Chapter 4 considers how the …
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Technological interventions to detect, communicate and prevent sexual assault
… in the United States is murdered by her romantic partner or ex-partner. Sexual abuse, assault, and harassment are regarded as some of the most common human rights violations in the world by the United Nations. Our work examines methods to prevent sexual assault, from pre-historic times to latest …
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Modeling trustworthy behavior and limiting the impact of selfishness
… in which players need to attract and form partnerships in a social network. This induces a metagame in which players must decide how much they are willing to commit to reciprocity in order to attract partners, where players who behave in a less selfish manner are naturally more attractive …
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