Correlation in business networks

Wataru Souma, Hideaki Aoyama, Yoshi Fujiwara, Yuichi Ikeda, Hiroshi Iyetomi and Taisei Kaizoji ()

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2006, vol. 370, issue 1, 151-155

Abstract: This paper considers business networks. Through empirical study, we show that business networks display characteristics of small-world networks and scale-free networks. In this paper, we characterize firms as sales and bankruptcy probabilities. A correlation between sales and a correlation between bankruptcy probabilities in business networks are also considered. The results reveal that the correlation between sales depends strongly on the type of network, whereas the correlation between bankruptcy probabilities does so only weakly.

Keywords: Business networks; Small-world; Scale-free; Correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.04.040

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