This dissertation examines the outcomes and effectiveness of public policies designed topromote the adoption of hybrid …-electric vehicles (HEVs). As a primary methodology, Iemploy cross-sectional analysis of hybrid registration data over time for U ….S. states andVirginia municipalities to examine the relationship between hybrid adoption and a varietyof socioeconomic and …

networks and firm performance. Specifically, I use resource dependence theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) and social capital … networks. SNA is used to measure a the number of ties a director has to other directors in the top-105 company director network …

proposed. The first essay considers information channels among mutual fund managers (fund-fund networks), and between holding … companies and fund managers (fund-company networks). Results show that (1) fund-fund (fund-company) information networks help in … generating positive risk-adjusted returns from holdings in absence of fund-company (fund-fund) networks; (2) fund …

networks in Kenya. A hybrid conceptual framework is proposed that brings together the concepts of food networks and conventions … thesis asks: How do women smallholders construct ‘ethicality’ in their food networks in relation to sustainable livelihoods … Kenyan women smallholders’: (1) knowledge of the horizontal and vertical ‘flows’ within their food networks; (2) their …