In particular, the emergence of forms of assurance between vendors - such as the form of interpersonal ties - is possible without a state or professional body, albeit with increased transaction costs: 'a certain level of economic efficiency in trade can be achieved through purely private, decentralised and informal means.' (Fafchamps 2004: 170).
For Dr. Alex Zautra, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University in Tempe, who has shown an association between criticism from intimate partners and joint pain in women with rheumatoid arthritis, the lesson from this growing literature is not to think of interpersonal ties as either all positive or negative.
Information and behaviour can spread through interpersonal ties.
These economic transfers contribute to the maintenance of transnational interpersonal ties.
Policies to improve social skills, interpersonal ties, and social support to spread positive interpersonal trust might be important for improving global QOL.
Traditional hierarchical lines of responsibilities and communication between the healthcare professions have been reported within the hospital setting in Norway, where physicians have an autonomous and independent role with weaker interpersonal ties with other hospital professionals.
Social networks have been defined as the "collection of interpersonal ties that people of all ages maintain" ([ 1], p.516).
Using survey relational data, we created an adjacency (or square) matrix containing information on the interpersonal collaborative ties between clinicians [ 29].
To describe which tie features are related with its dynamical strength (persistence), we will also follow Granovetter's notion of static strength of an interpersonal tie [20]: 'the strength of a tie is a combination of the amount of time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding), and the reciprocal services which characterize the tie'.
The ties between the companies run deep.
