Examining the Interlocking Structure of the Corporate Network: An Application of a High-Density Model on a Graph.

Abstract

This report describes the use of a high-density clustering technique to examine interlocking structure of a social network formed by the overlapping membership of the 250 largest industrial and financial corporations in the United States. The technique, developed to aid systems designers partition complex design problems into well-defined, manageable subproblems, is conceptually appealing and useful for examining very large problems. The report also compares the clustering trace of regions of high-density interlocking in the network provided by the technique to the clustering trace of a model network of random interlocking, and finds them very similar. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA105832

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  • James M. Lattin

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  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Clustering
  • Complex Systems
  • Corporations
  • Decomposition
  • High Density
  • Information Systems
  • Low Density
  • New York
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Random Number Generators
  • Schools
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • United States

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  • Operations Research
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Systems Analysis and Design