AMVETS' Chenelly also noted his members' preference for a veteran, but said he was "heartened by the fact that Dr. Shulkin seems to legitimately 'get it.'".
Geographic proximity remains a significant influence on choice of partner perhaps reflecting members' preference for working locally.
Dibsdall and colleagues [ 60] showed that a barrier to increased consumption of fruit and vegetables in groups with low SES is not only the higher cost but also the group members' preference for less healthy food items.
'Financial problems at home' and 'worries about cost of care in the hospital' (11.3%), 'distance of the hospital' (6.7%), 'fear about hospital' (2.5%) and 'family members' preference for home delivery' (2.5%) were also mentioned as the reasons for delivering at home (Table 5).
A key finding of this literature is that members' preferences for contractual forms are often at odds: the upstream supplier prefers relatively complex contracts that can coordinate the supply chain; however, the downstream retailer prefers a wholesale price-only contract because it leaves more surplus (than does a coordinating contract), which the retailer can capture.
Team members' preferences for leisure are not too diverse and the scale economies are not too large.
We study supply chain members' preferences for contractual forms under three different competitive settings in which multiple supply chains compete to sell substitutable products in the same market.
(Dong and Dow 1993) Restricting member exit can lead a team to more readily extract effort in either of two contexts: 1. Team members' preferences for leisure are not too diverse and the scale economies are not too large.
Their conclusion is that teams can more readily extract effort if they restrict exit when members' preferences for leisure are not too diverse and scale economies are not too extensive.
In addition, our study also showed that the full coverage of ECMO use by NHI may not significantly influence physicians' judgment for initiating ECMO or the patients/family members' preferences for requesting ECMO.
