This study examines the influence of the social networks of the board of directors on the use of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) practices. Combining insights from research on social networks in management and literature on organizational innovativeness and accounting, our theoretical framework suggests that interlocking directorates influence the likelihood of BSC use. Modelling variation in the rela...

This article studies, over the period 2006 to 2019, both structure and evolution of corporate networks built on shared board directors between largest listed firms three European countries: France, Germany, United Kingdom. It offers a longitudinal up-to-date analysis state links companies through examining interlocking directorates. Contrary previous studies which have emphasized decline interl...

After the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, leaders in successor states were eager to become economically independent from the former capital Vienna. They therefore quickly implemented a set of neomercantilistic measures, especially nationalization programs. Nevertheless, the 1920s saw a reestablishment of the common market in the former territories of the Habsburg Empire in terms of interreg...

BACKGROUND The King's Fund and British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition recommend that all hospital patients should have height and weight recorded, to detect the need for nutritional support. Systematic review evidence also suggests that protein and energy supplementation of adults in hospital with a wide range of conditions improves outcome. AIM To assess the recording of wei...

Objective/Context: This paper explores the relationship between corporate networks and business influence to figure out conditions of state capture. Methodology: We analyze through interlocking directorates in three Central American countries – Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador using network analysis, we pinpoint structure two political actions: contributions presidential campaigns revolving door...

Social capital is naturally embedded in social networks. In his famous work on the causal relationship between “bridging” social capital (e.g., associational life), trust, and civic behavior, Putnam [1993] did not investigate the structural aspect of such networks. Recently, the relationship between associational life and civicness of ethnic minority groups in Europe has been investigated [Fenn...

The practice of lobbying in the interest of economic or social groups plays an important role in the policy making process of most economies. While no data is available at this stage to examine the success of lobbies in exerting influence on specific policy issues, we perform a first systematic multi-layer network analysis of a large lobby registry. Here we focus on the domains of finance and c...