Centrality and investment strategies at the beginning of industrialisation in mid-nineteenth-century Catalonia

We apply social networks analysis to the study of an important database on investment and companies' share in Catalonia (Spain) of the 19th century. In contrast with most of the existing related literature, usually addressing power relationships across administration boards, we focus on the str...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Badia-Miró, Marc, Blasco-Martel, Yolanda, Lozano, Sergi, Soler, Raimon
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/109832
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/109832
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:social networks analysis
investment strategies
Barcelona
19th century
centrality
structural communities
anàlisi de les xarxes socials
estratègies d'inversió
segle XIX
centralitat
comunitats estructurals
análisis de las redes sociales
estrategias de inversión
siglo XIX
centralidad
comunidades estructurales
Economy -- History -- Catalonia (Spain) -- 19th century
Economia -- Història -- Catalunya -- S. XIX
Economía -- Historia -- Cataluña -- S. XIX
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Sumario:We apply social networks analysis to the study of an important database on investment and companies' share in Catalonia (Spain) of the 19th century. In contrast with most of the existing related literature, usually addressing power relationships across administration boards, we focus on the structure of interactions among individual investors and firms. Centrality analysis uncovers interesting roles played by certain economic sectors (e.g. textile and financial). Furthermore, the diverse composition (in terms of economic activity) of communities in the network (subgroups more densely connected internally than with the rest of the network) reveals a high investment diversification, which nicely agrees with a known characteristic of traditional Catalan business strategies.