In an ageing society, families may have an important role in the caretaking and well-being of the elderly. Demographic changes have an impact on the size and structure of families; one aspect is how intergenerational support is distributed when there is a need for support to both older and younger generations at the same time. Another vital aspect of the provision of care for the elderly is geo...

How do organizations coordinate interdependent activities across geographic distance? We analyze 121 surveys of offshored processes to understand both the sources of difficulty in the remote delivery of services as well as how organizations overcome these difficulties. We find that contrary to conventional wisdom, system dependence of a process is a much greater hindrance to the offshoring serv...

Abstract—Women are most vulnerable to crime despite occupying central position in shaping a society as the first teacher of children. In India too, having equal rights and constitutional safeguards, the incidences of crime against them are large and grave. In this context of crime against women, especially rape has been increasing over time. This paper explores the spatial and temporal aspects ...

This paper examines how information asymmetry affects cross-border strategic alliance formation by US firms over the period 2000–2008. We construct a measure, information costs, based on both geographical distance and the proportion of worldwide GDP the partner’s home country represents. Consistent with our expectations, we find an inverse association between information costs and cross-border ...

This paper brings together our findings on the importance of the geographical proximity and the network structure in the knowledge creation and sharing in Canadian biotechnology and nanotechnology. We find that most of the knowledge sharing occurs inside the geographical clusters or in the proximate distance. However, very distant or overseas collaborations are preferred over the mid-range dist...

1. Introduction In traditional dialectology, dialect variation is often represented by areas within which similar dialects are spoken. The dialect areas are found by drawing dividing lines (isoglosses) between areas where different representations are found for selected linguistic variables. However, different isoglosses do not always coincide which makes it difficult to draw borders between th...

GWR, in nature, is a local modelling approach in that it models spatial heterogeneity by sequentially fitting a series of weighted and localised regression models, centred upon each fit location. The weights are inversely proportional to the geographic distance between the fit points and the observations. SVC, on the other hand, is a global modelling approach in that it regards the spatial hete...

Dating apps provide live interaction and user profiles with photos, self-descriptions, and information about the geographical distance between the user and potential mates. The literature on the influence of geographical separation information and an individual’s expectation of reciprocity on the desire to interact is limited. This study aims to bridge this gap in the literature by exploring tw...

This descriptive study of millions of US Facebook users documents "friending" and communication patterns, exploring parent-child relationships across a variety of life stages and gender combinations. Using statistical techniques on 400,000 posts and comments, we identify differences in how parents talk to their children (giving advice, affection, and reminders to call) compared to their other f...

In this paper we develop and test an encompassing theoretical framework for the explanation of the geographical and temporal spread of extreme right violence. This framework combines internal precipitating factors related to ethnic competition, social disintegration, and political opportunity structures, which make certain localities more prone to exhibit ethnic violence, with diffusion variabl...