Ties with neighboring clients improve productivity more than ties with distant clients, which is likely because neighboring clients more effectively diffuse disembodied knowledge than distant clients.
If MAS can maintain its coveted status as preferred vendor to its distant clients, it says, sales should hit $1 billion by 2010 up from only $10 million in 1990.
For distant clients, the degree of overweight was higher in youth versus children.
Overall, distant clients were taller, weighed more, and were more overweight than their local counterparts.
This dichotomy may help to explain why distant clients were heavier and more overweight than their local counterparts.
Pediatric weight management services must be designed to optimize access to health services, especially for distant clients who may be at increased obesity-related health risk.
On average, our distant clients weighed ~14 kg more and had a BMI approximately four units greater than their local peers, which suggests they may be at increased health risk.
This distinction proved important since distant clients were more overweight than their local counterparts, a finding that highlights the importance of developing adaptable models of care for managing pediatric obesity since a one size fits all approach will neither be appropriate nor feasible for families in different geographic locations.
This scenario included the AP and three clients: a distant stationary client DC, an adjacent stationary client AC, and a mobile client MC that moves away from the AP during experiment.
By contrast, ties with distant suppliers and clients improve innovative capability (as measured by the number of registered patents), whereas ties with neighboring suppliers or clients do not affect innovative capability.
The negative effect of brokers on the creation of team capabilities is reduced when individual professional identities trigger the search for more accurate perceptions of distant colleagues and clients with the objective of adapting team routines and performing more stimulating work.
