Two fully funded PhD positions are available at CORPNET, University of Amsterdam.
We’re
a multidisciplinary team, bringing together political science, computer
science, network science, sociology, and based at the Amsterdam
Insitute for Social Science Research. We’re interested in networks of
corporate control. See http://corpnet.uva.nl
For the first
position, we are looking for somebody with experience in longitudinal /
dynamic network analysis . For the second position, we are looking for
somebody with corporate governance expertise, ideally from a networked
perspective.
Follow the links below for more information, or
see
http://corpnet.uva.nl.
Closing date 1 May. Starting date (no later than) 1 september 2016.
Corporate Network Governance: Power, Ownership and Control in Contemporary Global Capitalism (CORPNET)
CORPNET seeks to do what has so far eluded existing scholarship: to
fully explore the global network of corporate ownership and control as a
complex system. Using cutting-edge network science methods, the project
explores for the first time the largest database on ownership and
control covering over 100 million firms. Exploiting the longitudinal
richness of the new data in combination with state-of-the-art methods
and techniques makes it possible to model and empirically test
generating mechanisms that drive network formation.
PhD Project: What Drives Network Formation?This
subproject studies the generating mechanisms that drive the formation
of corporate governance networks. The project builds a conceptual
framework that tries to explain the formation and (dis)continuation of
corporate board overlap through the strategies of the actors involved.
It takes a bipartite approach and starts from the notion that the
generating strategies of actors do not only take place at the
firm-by-firm level but are essentially located at the firm-by-person
level. The methodological approach is temporal modelling (for example,
stochastic actor-oriented or temporal exponential random graph models),
and the project will have to develop methods and algorithms to apply
modelling on a very large scale.
https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/nav/type/phd-position/item/16-129_phd-candidate-in-longitudinal-corporate-network-analysis.htmlPhD Project: Corporate Control in Contemporary Global CapitalismThis
project engages in a fundamental discussion on the relationship between
corporate control, ownership and corporate power. In a world of
dispersed and fragmented ownership, corporate directors and managers are
the more powerful actors. In a world of (re)concentrated ownership
however, directors lose power and influence. The question, then, is the
extent to which new concentrated owners such as states and large asset
managers, and the corporate elite of directors are separable entities.
This is an important question with regard to financial intermediaries
and for venture capital, but also for the re-emergence of the state as
corporate owner in the global economy. Where and how do the network ties
of ownership and of managerial control reinforce each other? Are
ownership ties an additional tool for the corporate elite to strengthen
their grip on big business? Or can we discern opposing groups of
corporate managers and directors on the one hand and the (new) owners of
corporate capital on the other?
https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/nav/type/phd-position/item/16-130_phd-candidate-on-corporate-control-in-contemporary-global-capitalism.html