Search for dissertations about: "Similarity attraction"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Similarity attraction.

2. 1. Predicting who stays or leaves after the acquisition: : Target’s top manager turnover

   Author : Keivan Aghasi; Terrence Brown; Massimo Colombo; Maureen McKelvey; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Acquisition; CEO turnover; TMT turnover; coordination; Founder-CEO; Similarity attraction; Diversity;

   Abstract : In acquisition of high-tech and knowledge intensive firms, scholars have paid special attention to top managers’ status after the deal. Literature suggests that these managers in particular CEOs if kept in post-acquisition provide coordination capacity for the acquirer to transfer the knowledge and technology from the target to the acquirer while minimizing the disruptive effect of post-acquisition integration process. READ MORE

4. 2. Structural Models of Network Contacts Between Actors Governed by Activity and Attraction

   Author : Zhi Geng; Statistiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Directed graph; Ego-nets; EM algorithm; Gibbs sampling; Multinomial distribution; Hypergeometric distribution; Vertex covariates; Clustering coefficient; Taylor expansion;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers on the subject of statistical modeling of stochastic networks. The NG-model proposed in Paper I combines a block structure with parameters that capture the identities of vertices and thus the new approach stresses the concept of ego-nets, which describes the structure around identified vertices. READ MORE

5. 3. Social and Emotional Characteristics of Speech-based In-Vehicle Information Systems : Impact on Attitude and Driving Behaviour

   Author : Ing-Marie Jonsson; Nils Dahlbäck; Johan Åberg; Olle Eriksson; Håkan Alm; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bilkörning; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : Modern vehicles use advanced information systems in vehicles to provide and control a wide variety of functions and features. Even modest vehicles today are equipped with systems that control diverse functions from air-conditioning to high quality audio/video systems. READ MORE

6. 4. The Dawn of a New Age : Interrelationships of Acoela and Nemertodermatida and the Early Evolution of Bilateria

   Author : Andreas Wallberg; Ulf Jondelius; Mikael Thollesson; Graham Budd; Gonzalo Giribet; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Acoela; Nemertodermatida; Bilateria; Metazoa; evolution; phylogenetic inferrence; ancestral reconstruction; taxon sampling; microRNA; Systematics and phylogenetics; Systematik och fylogeni; systematisk zoologi; Systematic Zoology;

   Abstract : Deciphering the rapid emergence of bilaterian animals around the time of the Cambrian Explosion and reconstructing the interrelationships of animal groups have long been two of the most elusive problems in Zoology. This thesis concerns the phylogenetic interrelationships within and among Acoela and Nemertodermatida, two groups of small worms that are believed to be basal bilaterians and which may provide important clues for understanding the early evolution of animals. READ MORE