Communities in Italian corporate networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5247-5258

  Piccardi, Carlo ^a   Calatroni, Lisa ^a   Bertoni, Fabio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Board network; Communities; Modularity; Networks; Ownership network

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHYSICS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CORPORATE NETWORKS; FINANCIAL NETWORKS; MODULARITY; REAL-WORLD; SMALL WORLDS; STOCK EXCHANGE;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 77956970111     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.06.038     Document Type: Article

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