What impact did the recent financial crisis have on the international network of the corporate elite? Has the structure of corporate governance become more national or have transnational networks been robust? We investigate this issue by... more
What impact did the recent financial crisis have on the international network of the corporate elite? Has the structure of corporate governance become more national or have transnational networks been robust? We investigate this issue by comparing the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy in 1976, 1996, 2006 and 2013. We find that corporate elites have not retrenched into their national business communities: the transnational network increases in relative importance and remains largely intact during the crisis period 2006-2013. But this network does not depend – as it used to do - on a small number of big linkers but on a growing number of single linkers. The network has become less hierarchical. As a group, the corporate elite becomes more transnational in character. We see this as indicative of a recomposition of the corporate elite from a national to the transnational orientation.
1 Introduction The importance of public participation for effective policymaking is now widely endorsed. Public participation (or at least its advocacy) is considered essential to poverty reduction, social change in poor countries, city... more
1 Introduction The importance of public participation for effective policymaking is now widely endorsed. Public participation (or at least its advocacy) is considered essential to poverty reduction, social change in poor countries, city politics and local governance, ...
About one third of the Dutch environmental research is concentrated on aquatic problems. The largest number of these projects is physicochemical (65%) and 47% of the aquatic projects contains an ecological component. The aquatic research... more
About one third of the Dutch environmental research is concentrated on aquatic problems. The largest number of these projects is physicochemical (65%) and 47% of the aquatic projects contains an ecological component. The aquatic research projects are executed in a large number of different research institutes. Many institutes just formulated one project (43.2%) and about 10% of the institutes formulated ≥10 projects. The institutes with 10 or more projects account for almost 50% of the total number of projects. However, the size of the research projects with respect to the average total personnel per year may differ considerably. The largest number of aquatic research projects is carried out in governmental institutes. This relative high share of governmental institutes has proportionally increased during the period of 1975–1982. During this period the relative shares of all the aquatic research projects with an ecological component, of the strictly ecological projects and of the ecological/physicochemical projects have also proportionally inclined. However, in absolute numbers there seems to be a decline of both ecological and non-ecological projects on aquatic problems.
In 1997, Ted Porter was awarded the Ludwik Fleck Prize for his book Trust in Numbers. Since its publication, the book has received more than 40 reviews and many citations in scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines. It is an... more
In 1997, Ted Porter was awarded the Ludwik Fleck Prize for his book Trust in Numbers. Since its publication, the book has received more than 40 reviews and many citations in scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines. It is an innovative and programmatic work ...
... arena can be said to exist in all the liberal democracies included in this project. ... Our first attempt to formulate a heuristic framework of various types of governance implied in initiatives to enhance ... the issue and the debate... more
... arena can be said to exist in all the liberal democracies included in this project. ... Our first attempt to formulate a heuristic framework of various types of governance implied in initiatives to enhance ... the issue and the debate - in the extent to which their approach and definition of the ...
... Tags. Het studentenleven : opkomst en verval van de traditionele studentenkultuur. by: RobHagendijk. RIS, Export as RIS which can be imported into most citation managers. BibTeX, Export as BibTeX which can be imported into most... more
... Tags. Het studentenleven : opkomst en verval van de traditionele studentenkultuur. by: RobHagendijk. RIS, Export as RIS which can be imported into most citation managers. BibTeX, Export as BibTeX which can be imported into most citation/bibliography managers. ...
