Decision making dynamics in corporate boards

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 322, Issue , 2003, Pages 567-582

  Battiston, Stefano ^a   Bonabeau, Eric ^b   Weisbuch, Gérard ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^b ICOSYSTEM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Directorate interlock; Ising model; Opinion dynamics; Phase transition; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MANAGERS; PROBABILITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TOPOLOGY;

OPINION DYNAMICS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0344921456     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01930-1     Document Type: Article

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