We investigate the network topology of a comprehensive data set of the world-wide population of corporate entities. In …

network of German corporate boards as well as closely connected among themselves. While their analysis has been based on data … turnover within the group of persons constituting the network core. -- Board and director interlocks ; network core ; network …

highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. To identify the core, we compare the … the existence of a core in Germany's board and director network. Conditional on being a board member, it is very … monitoring ability. -- Board and director interlocks ; network core ; network formation ; market capitalization …

structural correlations vary across different versions of the network. Moreover, we employ different configuration models and … examine whether higher-level characteristics of the observed network can be statistically reconstructed by maximizing the … entropy of a randomized ensemble of networks restricted only by the lower-order features of the observed network. We find that …