closely related to the vastly increasing network literature. We propose to transfer successfully applied network methods to … the corporate control and corporate governance branch as well. For instance, in this paper we use the MAN …-classification scheme, centrality concepts, and network graphs to investigate a unique data set containing 2784 companies of the ownership …

the dyad level, only little is known about how and why (global) network structures differ between technologies or …

-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning of regions captured in terms of social network analytic (SNA …) centrality measures. The objective is to estimate how region-internal and region-external factors influence network embeddedness … in the distinct network types, in order to identify differences in their driving factors at the regional level. In our …

notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of … the present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes for the unemployed. Our …, based on the results of this analysis, we conduct an efficiency analysis, i.e., we estimate whether the Federal Employment …