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Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks
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  • board interlocks
  • interlocking directorates
  • social networks
  • information transfer
  • information dissemination
  • information contagion
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Director interlocks occur when a board member or an executive of a firm sits on the board of directors of another firm. As an essential social network application in the business world, interlocking directorates are documented to be non-trivial from the 1930s and continue to gain popularity thereafter. Corporate information and business practices can be transferred to another firm through an interlocking director sitting on both companies’ boards. Such information dissemination leads to changes in an interlocking firm’s decision-making processes.

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Yu, K.(.; Ma, Z.; Shi, L.; Zhou, N. Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1101 (accessed on 17 January 2026).
Yu K(, Ma Z, Shi L, Zhou N. Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1101. Accessed January 17, 2026.
Yu, Katherine (Kexin), Ziqi Ma, Linna Shi, Nan Zhou. "Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1101 (accessed January 17, 2026).
Yu, K.(., Ma, Z., Shi, L., & Zhou, N. (2024, February 07). Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1101
Yu, Katherine (Kexin), et al. "Director Interlocks: Information Transfer in Board Networks." Encyclopedia. Web. 07 February, 2024.
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