Examining the Interlocking Structure of the Corporate Network: An Application of a High-Density Model on a Graph

摘要

This report describes the use of a high-density clustering technique to examine interlocking structure of a social network formed by the overlapping membership of the 250 largest industrial and financial corporations in the United States. The technique, developed to aid systems designers partition complex design problems into well-defined, manageable subproblems, is conceptually appealing and useful for examining very large problems. The report also compares the clustering trace of regions of high-density interlocking in the network provided by the technique to the clustering trace of a model network of random interlocking, and finds them very similar. (Author)