Sentence examples for interlocking ties from inspiring English sources

At 2006, three fourths of board interlocking ties were created by independents (Duan 2009; Duan and Zhong 2008).

In professional networks, interlocking ties help channel information flows and reduce network constraint, thus contributing to the functioning of independent directors.

In political networks, however, interlocking ties only result from the company's pursuit of interests without responding to institutional legitimacy and thus do not contribute to corporate governance.

People are less likely to gain new information if they participate in networks that are characterized by redundant connections or strong interlocking ties (i.e., people who are strongly connected) and frequent and ongoing contact between limited numbers of similar people who share the same knowledge [ 37, 38].

Lowder's power has waned since the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools threatened to strip Auburn of its accreditation, citing the meddlesome trustees and their interlocking ties to Lowder as a reason for probation.

Over the last year, the ever-growing scandal has exposed unsavory and sometimes illegal interlocking ties among figures in the government, political leadership, law enforcement and News International, the British newspaper arm of Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation, along with Britain's other free-wheeling media outlets.

There is thus a strong possibility that those directors are the same person, and these companies have an interlocking tie.

These different types of board interlock ties are heterogeneous because they fulfill different functions (e.g., Haunschild and Beckman 1998; Sanders and Tuschke 2007) and firms are likely to associate different purposes with their creation.

By now, researchers by and large agree that board interlock ties should be seen as inter-organizational "pipes" (Podolny 2001) or channels for communication (e.g., Hillman and Dalziel 2003; Mintz and Schwartz 1985) used to exert influence and transfer resources among firms.

For directed interlocks, tie content depends on whether the focal firm's executive serves on another firm's board or another firm's executive serves on the focal firm's board.

This conceptual paper investigates the creation of interlocking directorate ties focusing on firms' choice between sent, received, and undirected board interlocks.