In ruling two weeks ago, Judge Harris, while noting that he was not issuing a finding on the lawsuit's merits, wrote, "For the life of me, I can't think of any other case that I've had, or any other example that I can try and refresh my recollection with, of a municipality where these types of ties are so interconnected".
Very good agreement was found between the types of tie-line configurations predicted and those reported from experiments.
Thus, when two types of ties offer comparable benefits in a given situation, the type of tie going along with the lesser costs will be chosen.
Thus, the three types of ties may not always represent equal alternatives.
Thus, a clear statement is needed to alert the reader as to what constitutes a tie, the different types of ties (if appropriate), whether ties were valued (or binary), and whether the network was directed (or symmetrical).
We frame tie choice as a strategic decision based on a cost benefit analysis and suggest that the tie-specific benefits and costs lead to the three types of ties not being equal alternatives.
Based on a structured overview of the literature on tie heterogeneity in interlocking directorates, our classification framework derived from resource dependence theory highlights the key differences between the three types of ties.
The effect of the lowest level of native-place ties is overshadowed by the effect of other types of ties, which means that if the employee has more than one type of native-place ties, the effect of lower-level ties would be more "invisible".
Knowledge sharing in dynamic virtual enterprises is performed with three types of ties: knowledge agent to knowledge agent, knowledge agent to knowledge item, and knowledge item to knowledge item.
