Boardroom networks among Australian company directors, 1976 and 1996: The impact of investor capitalism

摘要: This article examines the (interpersonal) network of boardroom contacts among directors Australia's largest companies in 1976 and 1996. Interlocking create an intercorporate but also interpersonal, contact network. The reaches all serving on any board that has a connected interlocker/networker it. interpersonal 1996 is broader, more cohesive densely than 1976. However, there only minimal change density inter-corporate linkages over these two decades. These findings suggest that, by late 1990s, internal social organization corporate elite Australia independent political economy relations changing directions suggested Useem's study `investor capital-ism' USA. Australian power structure research needs to interaction trends with pre-existing concentrations control this country.