Network Analysis of Interlocking Directorates/Project Overview
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Like Hong Kong, Singapore is a country with scarce natural resources that many companies are fighting for. As the Government holds the key to many resources such as land and other sensitive information, the success of a business can be greatly affected depending on whether it gains access to these information. Ever since the AIM scandal in 2012, Singaporeans have been questioning the transparency of the government and if some companies have an unfair advantage over others.
This project aims to tackle the issue by analyzing board-of-directors (BOD) information through networks analytics to investigate the possible existence of conflicts of interests between public and private bodies in Singapore. Using the same information, our team will also attempt to determine the relationships between each sector by analyzing the pattern of interlocking directorates among the various sectors in Singapore.
In each firm, there may be a board of directors which contains both insiders, who are direct employee under the firm, and outsiders – people who are not employees of the firm but hold an important position in the board of directors. As the existence of interlocking directorates between public and private entities in the same sector increases the possibility of conflicts of interest, our team aims to produce a visualization of these relationships between public and private companies. Key features of our project will include:
- 1. Identifying possible areas where conflicts of interests might arise
- 2. Understanding influencers within sectors
- 3. Identify the interdependence among various sectors
