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The duality of firms and directors in board interlock networks

A relational event modeling approach

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ID18936718
AuthorsD Valeeva (0000-0002-2777-8635, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Eelke M Heemskerk (0000-0001-7356-5318, University of Amsterdam), Frank W Takes (0000-0001-5468-1030, Leiden University)
Year2020
Volume62
Pages68-79
Publication date2020-03-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0378-8733 • E-ISSN: 1879-2111
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socnet.2020.02.009
OpenAlexW3012138139
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited64

The long tradition of scholarly work on corporate interlocks has left us with competing theoretical frameworks on the causes of interlock networks. Board interlocks are studied either as means to overcome the resource dependence of corporations or as a group cohesion mechanism of business elites. This contrast is due to an empirical divide of the literature where either the firms or the individuals are considered as decision-making bodies. In systematically ignoring the agency of the other group of actors, these literatures suffer from both theoretical and empirical biases in understanding the drivers of new interlocks. In this paper, we employ a relational event modeling technique that allows us to overcome this problem. The analysis of board appointments in Denmark demonstrates how in fact both personal and corporate considerations simultaneously drive the evolution of the corporate networks. The study of the duality of actors is essential for understanding the causes and consequences of corporate networks across time and space

Business · Economics · Industrial organization · Interlock · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Ratification · Resource dependence theory · Sociology · Computer Science · Corporate Finance and Governance · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Engineering · Law · Mathematics · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Marketing

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