A vacancy chain is a social structure through which resources are distributed to consumers. In a vacancy chain, a new resource unit that arrives into a...

term is commonly used in the UK. It is an example of a vacancy chain. Each member of the chain is a house sale, which depends both upon the buyers receiving...

the rules that describe the criteria to be used in these decisions. Vacancy chain Human capital Doeringer, Peter B. & Piore Michael J. (1971). Internal...

Brick-and-mortar chain stores have been in decline as retail has shifted to online shopping, leading to historically high retail vacancy rates. The hundred-year-old...

species, both terrestrial and marine, have been observed forming a vacancy chain to exchange shells. When an individual crab finds a new empty shell...

institutional economics Pure sociology Sociotechnical system Systems theory Vacancy chain Dennis Wrong (critic of structural functionalism) Macionis, John (1944–2011)...

elected by citizens, by a plurality of votes, for a four-year term (unless a vacancy occurs). The mayor's office is located in Montreal City Hall. The first...

moreover, the set of stable matchings forms a lattice, and similar vacancy chain dynamics are present. The observation that stable matchings are a lattice...

1970 publication of Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organizations which set out and applied to data a vacancy chain model for mobility...

development of a number of mathematical models of social structure including vacancy chains and blockmodels. He has been a leader of a revolution in sociology that...