Corporate Network Governance: Power, Ownership and Control in Contemporary Global Capitalism

Project Information

CORPNET

Grant agreement ID: 638946

DOI

10.3030/638946

Project closed

EC signature date 25 March 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 28 February 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 497 764,00

EU contribution

€ 1 497 764,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

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Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index funds, patient capital, and the distinction between feeble and forceful stewardship

Author(s): Jan Fichtner, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Economy and Society, Issue 49/4, 2020, Page(s) 493-515, ISSN 0308-5147
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2020.1781417

The Wealth Defence Industry: A Large-scale Study on Accountancy Firms as Profit Shifting Facilitators

Author(s): Lena Ajdacic, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Published in: New Political Economy, 2020, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1356-3467
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2020.1816947

Delineating the corporate elite: Inquiring the boundaries and composition of interlocking directorate networks

Author(s): M. Jouke Huijzer, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Global Networks, 2021, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12316

The promise and perils of using big data in the study of corporate networks: problems, diagnostics and fixes

Author(s): EELKE HEEMSKERK, KEVIN YOUNG, FRANK W. TAKES, BRUCE CRONIN, JAVIER GARCIA-BERNARDO, LASSE F. HENRIKSEN, WILLIAM KINDRED WINECOFF, VLADIMIR POPOV, AUDREY LAURIN-LAMOTHE
Published in: Global Networks, Issue 18/1, 2018, Page(s) 3-32, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12183

States versus Corporations: Rethinking the Power of Business in International Politics

Author(s): Milan Babic, Jan Fichtner, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: The International Spectator, Issue 52/4, 2017, Page(s) 20-43, ISSN 0393-2729
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2017.1389151

When theory meets methods: the naissance of computer assisted corporate interlock research

Author(s): MEINDERT FENNEMA, EELKE M. HEEMSKERK
Published in: Global Networks, Issue 18/1, 2018, Page(s) 81-104, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12178

Hidden power of the Big Three? Passive index funds, re-concentration of corporate ownership, and new financial risk

Author(s): Jan Fichtner, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Published in: Business and Politics, Issue 19/02, 2017, Page(s) 298-326, ISSN 1469-3569
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/bap.2017.6

The effects of data quality on the analysis of corporate board interlock networks

Author(s): Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Frank W. Takes
Published in: Information Systems, 2017, ISSN 0306-4379
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2017.10.005

The Corporate Elite Community Structure of Global Capitalism

Author(s): Eelke M. Heemskerk, Frank W. Takes
Published in: New Political Economy, Issue 21/1, 2015, Page(s) 90-118, ISSN 1356-3467
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2015.1041483

Perpetual decline or persistent dominance? Uncovering Anglo-America’s true structural power in global finance

Author(s): Jan Fichtner
Published in: Review of International Studies, Issue 43/01, 2017, Page(s) 3-28, ISSN 0260-2105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210516000206

Centrality in the global network of corporate control

Author(s): Frank W. Takes, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining, Issue 6/1, 2016, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1869-5450
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-016-0402-5

Close communication and 2-clubs in corporate networks: Europe 2010

Author(s): Robert J. Mokken, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Steven Laan
Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining, Issue 6/1, 2016, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 1869-5450
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-016-0345-x

Where is the global corporate elite? A large-scale network study of local and nonlocal interlocking directorates

Author(s): E.M. Heemskerk, F.W. Takes, J. Garcia-Bernardo and M.J. Huijzer
Published in: Sociologica, Issue 2016 issue 2, 2016, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 1469-8684
Publisher: Societa editrice il Mulino
DOI: 10.2383/85292

The global corporate elite after the financial crisis: evidence from the transnational network of interlocking directorates

Author(s): EELKE M. HEEMSKERK, MEINDERT FENNEMA, WILLIAM K. CARROLL
Published in: Global Networks, Issue 16/1, 2016, Page(s) 68-88, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12098

Actors, Not Markets: Bringing Corporate Power Back in International Studies

Author(s): Milan Babic
Published in: International Studies Review, Issue 21/1, 2018, Page(s) 175-176, ISSN 1521-9488
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/isr/viy059

Multiplex network motifs as building blocks of corporate networks

Author(s): Frank W. Takes, Walter A. Kosters, Boyd Witte, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Applied Network Science, Issue 3/1, 2018, ISSN 2364-8228
Publisher: Applied Network Science
DOI: 10.1007/s41109-018-0094-z

The rise of transnational state capital: state-led foreign investment in the 21st century

Author(s): Milan Babic, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2019, Page(s) 1-43, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1665084

Let's talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order

Author(s): Milan Babic
Published in: International Affairs, 2020, ISSN 0020-5850
Publisher: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiz254

Steering capital: the growing private authority of index providers in the age of passive asset management

Author(s): Johannes Petry, Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2019, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1699147

Does it pay to be a multinational? A large‐sample, cross‐national replication assessing the multinationality–performance relationship

Author(s): Niccolò Pisani, Javier Garcia‐Bernardo, Eelke Heemskerk
Published in: Strategic Management Journal, Issue 41/1, 2019, Page(s) 152-172, ISSN 0143-2095
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/smj.3087

The duality of firms and directors in board interlock networks: A relational event modeling approach

Author(s): Diliara Valeeva, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Frank W. Takes
Published in: Social Networks, Issue 62, 2020, Page(s) 68-79, ISSN 0378-8733
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2020.02.009

Competing for capitals: the great fragmentation of the firm and varieties of FDI attraction profiles in the European Union

Author(s): Arjan Reurink, Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2020, Page(s) 1-34, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1737564

Uncovering Offshore Financial Centers: Conduits and Sinks in the Global Corporate Ownership Network

Author(s): Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Jan Fichtner, Frank W. Takes, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7/1, 2017, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06322-9

Other (4)

'Ligt het Rijnland nu in de VS? Lange termijn oriëntatie en passieve investeringsfondsen'

Author(s): Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Goed Bestuur, Issue 13(2), 2017, Page(s) 14-16
Publisher: Goed Bestuur & Toezicht

'‘Langetermijnoriëntatie en de opkomst van passieve investeerders'

Author(s): Eelke M Heemskerk
Published in: Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB), Issue 120(4751), 2017, Page(s) 320-321
Publisher: ESB

How Corporate Board Connect, in Charts

Author(s): Eelke Heemskerk
Published in: Harvard Business Review, 2016
Publisher: Harvard Business Review

Sinks and Conduits: Identifying Offshore Financial Centers by using Big Data

Author(s): J. Garcia-Bernardo, J. Fichtner, F.W. Takes, E.M. Heemskerk
Published in: IFC Economic Report, 2017
Publisher: IFC Economic Report

Conference proceedings (1)

Exploiting GPUs for Fast Force-Directed Visualization of Large-Scale Networks

Author(s): Govert G. Brinkmann, Kristian F.D. Rietveld, Frank W. Takes
Published in: 2017 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2017, Page(s) 382-391, ISBN 978-1-5386-1042-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2017.47

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Are the Sleeping Giants Awakening? An Investigation into the Investment Stewardship Efforts of the Big Three Passive Investment Managers

Author(s): Oumaima Majiti
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Corpnet

The Resilient European Corporate Community: Evidence from the European network of interlocking directorates between 2005 and 2018

Author(s): Lucas van Straalen
Published in: 2019
Publisher: CORPNET

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index Funds, (Im)patient Capital, and the Claim of Long-termism

Author(s): Jan Fichtner, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: SSRN
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3321597

Competing with whom? For what? And how? The great fragmentation of the firm, FDI attraction profiles, and the structure of international tax competition in the European Union

Author(s): Arjan Reurink, Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Published in: SSRN, 2018, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: SSRN
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/7ugbr

Book chapters (2)

Stabilisierung, Vertiefung und Konsolidierung der Economic Governance: Elitenstrategien in der europäischen Krise

Author(s): Milan Babic
Published in: Neue Segel, alter Kurs? - Die Eurokrise und ihre Folgen für das europäische Wirtschaftsregieren, 2019, Page(s) 109-138, ISBN 978-3-658-25036-2
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-25037-9_5

Interlocking Directorate Networks

Author(s): Kees van Veen, Eelke M. Heemskerk
Published in: Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4614-7163-9
Publisher: Springer New York
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_274-1