Boardroom Networks among Australian Company Directors, 1976 and 1996
Boardroom Networks among Australian Company Directors, 1976 and 1996
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1976 年和 1996 年澳大利亚公司董事的董事会网络
DOI：
10.1177/00048690030393002
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
M. Alexander
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作者：
M. Alexander
本文研究了1976年和1996年澳大利亚最大的公司董事之间的董事会联系（人际）网络。连锁董事创造了一个公司间的网络，也是一个人际关系网。1996年的人际关系网比1976年的人际关系网更广泛、更有凝聚力、联系更紧密。然而，在这20年中，公司间联系的密度变化很小。这些研究结果表明，到20世纪90年代末，澳大利亚企业精英的内部社会组织独立于企业间关系的政治经济学，并按照Useem对美国“投资者资本主义”的研究所建议的方向变化。澳大利亚公司权力结构研究需要研究这些趋势与该国先前存在的公司控制权集中的相互作用。
This article examines the (interpersonal) network of boardroom contacts among the directors of Australia's largest companies in 1976 and 1996. Interlocking directors create an intercorporate network but also an interpersonal, contact network. The network reaches all directors serving on any board that has a connected interlocker/networker on it. The interpersonal network of 1996 is broader, more cohesive and more densely connected than that of 1976. However, there is only minimal change in the density of inter-corporate linkages over these two decades. These findings suggest that, by the late 1990s, internal social organization among the corporate elite in Australia is independent of the political economy of intercorporate relations and changing in directions suggested by Useem's study of `investor capital-ism' in the USA. Australian corporate power structure research needs to study the interaction of these trends with the pre-existing concentrations of corporate control in this country.