Turkey was recalibrating its external ties and the EU was but one part of the equation, Dr Keyman said.
According to one Indian intelligence official, during the siege the militants have been using non-Indian cellphones and receiving calls from outside the country, evidence that in part led Indian officials to speak publicly about the militants' external ties.
These external ties provide resource constrained SMEs with access to a wider set of technological opportunities through information sharing and resource pooling.
External ties to others give actors in a particular region the opportunity to gain access to new markets, reduce operating costs, and generate greater profits.
Researchers and practitioners largely agree that firms benefit from their executives' external ties (e.g., Connelly and van Slyke 2012; Geletkanycz and Hambrick 1997).
In Benson's (1975) theory of interorganizational networks, organizations' powers vary according to internal network structure and external ties, that is, external social linkages embedded in larger "societal dominance" patterns.
The E-I index, as formulated by Krackhardt and Stern (1988), measures the ratios between external ties (between different groups) and internal ties (within groups) and normalizes them to a value with a range of −1.0 to +1.0.
Based on a detailed empirical survey of laboratory sites established by 49 German MNCs, we examine (i) the level and pace of R&D internationalization, (ii) the motivations and mandates of overseas R&D laboratories, as well as (iii) the strength of the laboratories' internal and external ties.
It's waterproof, dust-proof and includes stainless steel external tie-downs so you can strap it to the top of your car -- or helicopter. .
We start seeking it somewhere else, creating external ties to comfort our doubts and fears.
