The small worlds of corporate governance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bruce Kogut

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451576703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-262-30081-8; 1-280-49881-1; 9786613594044; 0-262-30157-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KogutBruce Mitchel
• Disciplina: 338.6
• Soggetti: Corporate governance; Boards of directors; Directors of corporations; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.