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Corporate elites and intercorporate networks

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  • Carroll, William K.
  • Sapinski, Jean Philippe

    (University of Victoria)

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Although systematic network analyses mapping the social organization of business power date only from the 1970s, scholars have explored the relations that link corporations and their directors into corporate elites and intercorporate networks for over a century.

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  • Carroll, William K. & Sapinski, Jean Philippe, 2017. "Corporate elites and intercorporate networks," SocArXiv 43w7s, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:43w7s
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/43w7s
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