Board of Directors’ Interlocks: A Social Network Analysis Tutorial

Claudine Pereira Salgado, Vivian Sebben Adami, Jorge Renato de Souza Verschoore Filho and Cristiano Machado Costa

RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Journal of Contemporary Administration), 2023, vol. 27, issue Vol. 27 No. 1 (2023): Jan/Feb - 2023, e210286

Abstract: Objective: the literature on board interlocks has increased in recent years, focusing on understanding board composition and its relationships with other companies’ boards. Such studies usually require multiple procedures of data extraction, handling, and analysis to create and analyze social networks. However, these procedures are not standardized, and there is a lack of methodological instructions available to make this process easier for researchers. This tutorial intends to describe the logical steps taken to collect data, treat them, and map and measure the network properties to provide researchers with the sources to replicate it in their own research. We contribute to the literature in the management field by proposing an empirical methodological approach to conduct board interlocks’ research. Proposal: our tutorial describes and provides examples of data collection, directors’ data treatment, and the use of these data to map and measure network structural properties using an open-source tool — R statistical software. Conclusions: our main contribution is a tutorial detailing the steps required to map and analyze board interlocks, making this process easier, standardized, and more accessible for all researchers who wish to develop social network analysis studies.

Date: 2023
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