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Title: | Centrality and investment strategies at the beginning of industrialisation in mid-nineteenth-century Catalonia |
Author: | Badia-Miró, Marc Blasco-Martel, Yolanda Lozano, Sergi Soler, Raimon |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Universitat de Barcelona (UB) |
Citation: | Badia Miró, M., Blasco Martel, Y., Lozano, S. & Soler, R. (2010). Centrality and investment strategies at the beginning of industrialisation in mid-nineteenth-century Catalonia. Business History, 52(3), 493-515. doi: 10.1080/00076791003722017 |
Abstract: | We apply social networks analysis to the study of an important database on investment and companies' share in Catalonia (Spain) of the 19th century. In contrast with most of the existing related literature, usually addressing power relationships across administration boards, we focus on the structure of interactions among individual investors and firms. Centrality analysis uncovers interesting roles played by certain economic sectors (e.g. textile and financial). Furthermore, the diverse composition (in terms of economic activity) of communities in the network (subgroups more densely connected internally than with the rest of the network) reveals a high investment diversification, which nicely agrees with a known characteristic of traditional Catalan business strategies. |
Keywords: | social networks analysis investment strategies Barcelona 19th century centrality structural communities |
DOI: | 10.1080/00076791003722017 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
Issue Date: | 2-Jun-2010 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Appears in Collections: | Articles Articles cientÍfics |
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