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A multiple network approach to corporate governance

2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 49; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11135-014-0075-y

1573-7845

Fausto Bonacina, Marco D’Errico, Enrico Moretto, Silvana Stefani, Anna Torriero, Giovanni Zambruno,

Complex Network Analysis Techniques

In this work, we consider corporate governance (CG) ties among companies from a multiple network perspective. Such a structure naturally arises from the close interrelation between the Shareholding network and the Board of Directors network. In order to capture the simultaneous effects of both networks on CG, we propose to model the CG multiple network structure via tensor analysis. In particular, we consider the TOPHITS model, based on the PARAFAC tensor decomposition, to show that tensor techniques can be successfully applied in this context. By providing some empirical results from the Italian financial market in the univariate case, we then show that a tensor–based multiple network approach can reveal important information.