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Exploring The Organizational Effects Of Directors' Embeddedness In Board Networks, Hansin Bilgili
Exploring The Organizational Effects Of Directors' Embeddedness In Board Networks, Hansin Bilgili
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, I explore how top executives’ and directors’ embeddedness in corporate elite networks within and between organizations’ boards of directors influence organizational strategy and policy. In the first study, I conduct a comprehensive review of the governance literature using both a traditional narrative approach as well as a bibliometric main path analysis, which traces the development and diffusion of scholarly knowledge on corporate elite networks. In the second study, drawing from network theory and behavioral governance research, I introduce a methodology that allows researchers to model intraboard networks by measuring the strength of ties among members of boards …