The small worlds of corporate governance / edited by Bruce Kogut.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kogut, Bruce Mitchel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance--Case studies.

Corporate governance.

Boards of directors.

Directors of corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom and who will stand by whom in times of crisis. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks on corporate behaviour and governance.

Contents:

The small world of corporate governance : an introduction / Bruce Kogut

Is there an Anglo-Saxon model? / Martin Conyon and Andrew Shipilov

The small worlds of business groups : liberalization and network dynamics / Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Dori, Shmuel Ellis, Sargio G. Lazzarini, Jordan Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina

Ownership networks and new institutional forms in the transition from communism to capitalism / Doug Guthrie, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Roger Schoenman, and Zhixing Xiao

Structural breaks and governance networks in Western Europe / Fabrizio Ferraro, Raffaele Corrado, Gerhard Schnyder, Eelke M. Heemskerk, and Nathalie Del Vecchio

Testing "the old boys" network : diversity and board interlocks in Scandinavia / Christofer Edling, Bersant Hobdari, Trond Randa, Anna Stafsudd, and Steen Thomsen

Governance networks, small worlds, and acquisitions in Germany and the United States, 2000-2005 / Gerald F. Davis, Gordon Walker, and Bruce Kogut

Generating rules and the social science of governance / Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinky, Jordi Colomer, and Malika Hamadi

Is there a global small world of owners and directors / Bruce Kogut, Jordi Colomer, and the contributors to this book

Epilogue: the generative analytics of corporate governance

Appendix 1: Primer on social networks and small world measures / Mariano Belinky, Jordi Colomer, Bruce Kogut, and Pietro Urso

Appendix 2: Name matching algorithms / Jordi Colomer

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613594044

9780262300810

0262300818

9781280498817

1280498811

9780262301572

0262301571

OCLC:

794003749

Publisher Number:

9786613594044