Portes and Bach (1985) claimed that the enclave was a distinct economic sector, different from the "primary" and "secondary" sectors of the labour market.
And the second promise, the idea of civil society as a distinct third sector of Western societies (distinct from both the state and the private realm), has come to fire parts of the radical imagination in contemporary ideological debate.
Managers and trustees now saw these hospitals as comprising a distinct "nonprofit" sector, more closely allied with government, and they dissociated themselves from the many small, for-profit hospitals that were the major casualties of the depression.
"Each of these spun-off businesses is in fact a distinct business sector, and each will benefit from standing on its own, with its own capital structure, its own currency which will enhance its ability to attract and retain superior talent and make acquisitions, and a focused story investors can clearly understand and buy into".
Adam et al. (1998) shows that the CGE model has two distinctive features; first, it incorporates a number of distinct sectors, and secondly, the model is characterized with a number of behavioral equations that deal with the response of industries and consumers against changes in relative prices.
Initially a term used to describe an emerging set of technologies, 'biotech' has become shorthand for a large part of the life science industry, a distinct sub-sector of smaller companies with their own culture and dynamics.
Among others, this has already been shown by [28] and [11], who provide an overview of various policy types and their distinct sectors of applicability.
The matrices I ∗ and A ∗ have as many rows, n, as there are distinct sectors globally (i.e., the union of the set of sectors in each region) and as many columns as there are technological options in the region.
