Board of directors networks in Russian companies

On March 30 Marina Zavertiaeva presented preliminary calculation on her joint paper with Felix Iturriaga.

The paper “Board of directors networks in Russian companies” opens new research project in the IDLab that is devoted to network analysis in corporate finance. Networks among Boards of directors members can be regarded as intangibles indicators that influences financial performance. During the work of IDLab the data on Boards of the largest Russian companies was collected. With the use of networks analysis Marina and Felix calculated centrality metrics in the regarded network. The results allow to look at corporate governance from the new perspective and show that networks become weaker and their diversity within a particular company also decreases.