The second reason companies must improve their ability to manage geopolitical risk is the proliferation of economic sanctions as an instrument of foreign policy an emphasis that has increased the ties between global commerce and geopolitics.
On the for-profit side, it has invested in BlueOrchard Microfinance Securities, which packages loans made by microfinance institutions and sells them to institutional investors, and the Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium, an investment fund aimed at increasing the ties between banks and microfinance groups.
The results indicated that the ultra high molar mass component resulting from a broader MWD can act as nucleation agent, which might decrease the spherulite size and increase the tie-chain content of PP-R.
Celtic were looking distressed and with Inter's confidence increasing, the tie appeared all but over inside the opening 15 minutes.
Interestingly, as the strength of tie increases, the fraction of ties sharing a common mode choice decreases.
Still, these crosscurrents of investment are increasing the economic ties between the Persian Gulf countries and the United States — ties that have been strained after Sept. 11.
This fraction is found to increase as the tie strength (characterized by the genetic relatedness) decreases.
We observed the trend that as the distance increases, the portion of ties who share a common mode choice drops, conceivably (as shown in Figure 13).
H1.2: As the strength of these ties increases, the employees' commitment increases as well.
In this sense, portfolio entrepreneurship increases the in-degree of ties (i.e., networking occurs, information flows from the outside in), while serial entrepreneurs need to constantly increase the outdegree of ties in order to have sufficiently rich networks.
