The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026201727X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia University. Bruce Kogut is Sanford C. He is the author or editor of six books, including T he Global Internet Economy (MIT Press, 2003) and Knowledge, Options, and Institutions.
This book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks--communities of agents (people or firms) and the ties among them--on corporate behavior and governance. The chapters examine, among other topics, the surprisingly heterogeneous network structures that contradict the common belief in a single Anglo-Saxon model; the variation in network trajectories among the formerly communist countries including China; signs of convergence in response to the common structural breaks in Europe; the growing structural power of women due to gains in gender diversity on corporate governance in Scandinavia; the "small world" of merger and acquisition activity in Germany and the United States; the properties of a global and transnational governance network; and application of agent-based models to understanding the emergence of governance.. The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision o
The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance brings 21st century analytic tools to understand the complex corporate global networks that drive the world economy. The book will be of great value to scholars, students as well as policy makers who follow the field." --Asli M. Using the most up-to-date innovations in the field of social network analysis, the authors of this volume demonstrate, in both compelling prose and revealing graphics, the role of national and global corporate elites in the origins, maintenance, and historical trajectory
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