Tie-formation process within the communities of the Japanese production network: application of an exponential random graph model

Abstract This paper studies the driving forces behind the formation of ties within the major communities in the Japanese nationwide network of production, which contains one million firms and five million links between suppliers (“upstream" firms) and customers (“downstream" firms). We app...

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Main Authors: Hazem Krichene, Abhijit Chakraborty, Yoshi Fujiwara, Hiroyasu Inoue, Masaaki Terai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-01-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-019-0112-9