Interlocking Directorates Among Major Canadian Firms

The Ornstein data frame has 248 rows and 4 columns. The observations are the 248 largest Canadian firms with publicly available information in the mid-1970s. The names of the firms were not available.

Usage

Ornstein

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

assets

Assets in millions of dollars.

sector

Industrial sector. A factor with levels: AGR, agriculture, food, light industry; BNK, banking; CON, construction; FIN, other financial; HLD, holding companies; MAN, heavy manufacturing; MER, merchandizing; MIN, mining, metals, etc.; TRN, transport; WOD, wood and paper.

nation

Nation of control. A factor with levels: CAN, Canada; OTH, other foreign; UK, Britain; US, United States.

interlocks

Number of interlocking director and executive positions shared with other major firms.

Source

Ornstein, M. (1976) The boards and executives of the largest Canadian corporations. Canadian Journal of Sociology 1, 411–437.

Personal communication from M. Ornstein, Department of Sociology, York University.

References

Fox, J. (2016) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage.