SNA Softwares

1. Pajek
2. Ucinet
3. Gephi
4. Nodexl
5. Siena
6. Cytoscape

more here

Brands in urban and digital spaces

An interesting reading

Mexico, VietNam, Russia, France, Iran, Mozambique...

Star Alliances

You might want take a look to this, it is a summation and analytical assessment on the “Star Alliance (A): A Global Network” case study published in the Transnational Management by Bartlett, Ghoshal and Birkinshaw (2005).

This is what a multinational company looks like..

My friend Skye Bender the Moll has developed a software (SONIA) to dynamically visualize network movie and a database (CorpWatch) of subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings.


Click here for a movie of the changes in corporate structure at Lehman Brothers from 2003-2008. Each dot is a subsidiary corporation and each line is a declared ownership relation.

Goldman Sachs movie The “ring” of nodes around the main network are companies with names that include “Goldman Sachs” but are not reported in the main filings. Since these must be associated in some way with Goldman Sachs, but we don’t have any ties for them, it kind of gives an idea of how many relationships we are “missing”– the Exhibit 21 filings are just the tip of the glacier, lots of other little icebergs floating around out there.
Lehman movie does not have 2009 data (will they ever? ;-). When the 2009 data is complete, I wonder if we will be able to locate their sold-off divisions now belonging to other companies?
Coca Cola movie. Started from a query looking for names like “Coca Cola”, so it includes the “Coca Cola Bottling” and “Coca cola Enterprises” divisions that are legally separate corporations even though they are controlled by the parent.

Global Value Chains

An interesting framework in order to understand global value chains can be found in Par. 2 of:

Gereffi G. (1999), 'International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain’, Journal of International Economics, 48: 37–70

Fiat's CEO Sergio Marchionne Says Fiat Could Do Better Without Italy

Thanks god, you are definitely right: Marchionne is not a true Italian

http://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2010/10/25/marchionne-fiat.shtml">http://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2010/10/25/marchionne-fiat.shtml

Elements of Network Analysis

You can find the slides on network analysis here enjoy!

Where do things come from?

To map global supply chains try sourcemap





To know where the idea of new things come from read

Molotch H. (2003) Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are, Routledge, London

Wine Advice, Oenological Consultancy

Enofly is an Italian company of wine consultancy built by two Italian oenologists providing services to wine companies.

http://www.enofly.it/index.html

In the 'news' of the website, Indian friends can also find an article about Yatin Patin, who is a vintage wine producer...

http://www.enofly.it/pdf_news/yatin_patin_16.pdf

Future platforms: back to the US

General Motors' Voltec Platform for electrically driven vehicles.

The Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant starts up.

More here: gm-volt.com and here http://www.economist.com/node/17202405

Oenologists

A list of wine personalities

such as Alberto Antonini:
an Italian winemaker who makes outstanding wines from Tuscany to Argentina

The Wine Economist

More interesting readings on the international wine industry can be found here:

http://wineeconomist.com/

The Catena story, in particular, sounds inspiring: immigrants from Italy, they have now distributors all around the world (except than in Italy):

http://www.catenawines.com