The corporate boards networks

✍ Scribed by Guido Caldarelli; Michele Catanzaro

• Book ID: 104077469
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 225 KB
• Volume: 338
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.02.030

✦ Synopsis

In this work we apply network theory to detect in a quantitative fashion some of the characters of the system composed by companies and their boards of directors. Modelling this as a bipartite graph, we can derive two networks (one for the companies and one for the directors) and apply to them the standard graph analysis instruments. The emerging picture shows an environment where the exchange of information and mutual in uences, conveyed by interlocks between boards, is predominant. Such a result should be taken into account when modelling this system.