![]() ![]() That is, the matrices contain a "duality of persons and groups" (Breiger, 1974). Either a corporate/organizational network, based on common directors, or an interpersonal/social network, based on shared board memberships, can be derived from these matrices. The databases are large matrices that contain information on the linkages between persons and groups. Today corporate interlocks are analyzed with bigger databases and sophisticated network programs, thanks to desktop computers. Interlocking directorates - defined as the linkages among corporations created by individuals who sit on two or more corporate boards - have been a source of research attention since the Progressive Era at the turn of the 20th century, when they were used by famous muckraking journalists, and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, to claim that a few large commercial and investment banks controlled most major corporations. ![]() ![]() Interlocking Directorates in the Corporate Community by G. ![]()
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