Includes bibliographical references and index.

The small world of corporate governance : an introduction / Bruce Kogut -- Is there an Anglo-Saxon model? / Martin Conyon and Andrew Shipilov -- The small worlds of business groups : liberalization and network dynamics / Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Dori, Shmuel Ellis, Sargio G. Lazzarini, Jordan Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina -- Ownership networks and new institutional forms in the transition from communism to capitalism / Doug Guthrie, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Roger Schoenman, and Zhixing Xiao -- Structural breaks and governance networks in Western Europe / Fabrizio Ferraro, Raffaele Corrado, Gerhard Schnyder, Eelke M. Heemskerk, and Nathalie Del Vecchio -- Testing "the old boys" network : diversity and board interlocks in Scandinavia / Christofer Edling, Bersant Hobdari, Trond Randa, Anna Stafsudd, and Steen Thomsen -- Governance networks, small worlds, and acquisitions in Germany and the United States, 2000-2005 / Gerald F. Davis, Gordon Walker, and Bruce Kogut -- Generating rules and the social science of governance / Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinky, Jordi Colomer, and Malika Hamadi -- Is there a global small world of owners and directors / Bruce Kogut, Jordi Colomer, and the contributors to this book -- Epilogue: the generative analytics of corporate governance -- Appendix 1: Primer on social networks and small world measures / Mariano Belinky, Jordi Colomer, Bruce Kogut, and Pietro Urso -- Appendix 2: Name matching algorithms / Jordi Colomer -- References -- Index.

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