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Title
Inter-firm networks : coordination through board and department interlocks / Lucio Biggiero, Robert Magnuszewski.
ISBN
9783031173899 (electronic bk.)
3031173899 (electronic bk.)
3031173880
9783031173882
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (colour).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-17389-9 doi
Call Number
HD31.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
658.4/02
Summary
This book examines the inter-firm networks created by interlock coordination through shared directors (inter-board) and managers (inter-department) at various levels: whole aggregate, core vs. peripheral companies, and distribution by country and sector. Presenting an empirical case study on all the limited liability or stock companies of the aerospace industry in the European Union and its interlock partners worldwide, the authors shed new light on these forms of coordination. Moreover, they reveal the relevance of shared managers coordination and hybrid manager-director interlocks. The book applies advanced statistical and social network analysis alike by combining firms attributes (e.g. standard economic-financial parameters) and topological indices for firms (e.g. centrality and cluster measures). By conducting the analysis at both the aggregate network level and the cluster or corporate group level, the authors show how extensive and intensive the interlock forms of coordination are, especially when dealing with shared managers. By testing seven hypotheses concerning the research stream on board interlocks and (more broadly) inter-firm networks, the study offers new insights into the role of the financial sector, on the relations between interlock coordination and firms performance, on the role of geographical, technological and organizational proximity, and on the relations between interlock coordination and firms size. As such, this book will appeal to scholars of organization studies, business and management studies, industrial and evolutionary economics, and economic sociology, as well as officers and policymakers at anti-trust regulation institutions.
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Series
Relational economics and organization governance.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. A knowledge-based view of inter-firm interlock coordination
Chapter 3. Overview on the EU28 Aerospace Industry network and its neighbors
Chapter 4. Network analysis of the ALL (merged) network
Chapter 5. Inter-departmental coordination through shared managers
Chapter 6. Inter-board coordination through shared directors
Chapter 7. Asymmetric knowledge coordination through the manager-director hybrid role
Chapter 8. Comparison of the three coordination forms and hypotheses testing
Chapter 9. Conclusions.
