Title :

The cohesion of intercorporate networks in France

Author(s) :

Comet, Catherine [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Pizarro, Narciso [Auteur]
Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] [UCM]

Journal title :

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volume number :

10

Pages :

52-61

Publisher :

Elsevier BV

Publication date :

2011

ISSN :

1877-0428

English keyword(s) :

Social network analysis
corporate networks
interlocking directorates
governance
business elite
capital network
cross-shareholdings
equity linkages

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

English abstract : [en]

In France, main companies nurture a high number of interlocking directorates. We run descriptive analyses on the 125 largest capitalizations at the Paris Stock Exchange, in order to highlight the economic and social factors ...
Show more >In France, main companies nurture a high number of interlocking directorates. We run descriptive analyses on the 125 largest capitalizations at the Paris Stock Exchange, in order to highlight the economic and social factors driving this phenomenon. On the one hand, the governance network reflects a preference among directors of the same profile, suggesting a mechanism of bounded solidarity. On the other hand, it is included in the capital network, whose major shareholders are mostly foreign investors. We argue that the cohesion of corporate networks based on interlocks might decrease during next years.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale

Collections :

• Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Research team(s) :

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Submission date :

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