Eelke Heemskerk


Eelke Heemskerk is a social scientist, a management consultant and loves sailing and kiteboarding. He works at the University of Amsterdam and the Galan Group, and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.





CORPNET


The European Research Council has awarded me the ERC starting grant for my research on global networks of corporate control. The project is titled Corporate Network Governance: Power, Ownership and Control in Contemporary Global Capitalism. The ERC grant supports young academics who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. The EUR 1.5 mio grant allows me to build a new research team over the coming five years.


Please visit the CORPNET website for all the latest on my research


Big Three Asset Managers Dominate Corporate Control in USA


In a new CORPNET working paper we show that already in 40 percent of all listed U.S. corporations the Big Three together constitute the largest shareholder — and even in 88 percent of the S&P 500 firms. This re-concentration of ownership is unprecedented and unlike the earlier ascent of actively managed mutual funds, such as Fidelity, is likely here to stay.


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Research datasets available


Sharing is part of good science. Through this website a number of datasets from previous research are made available. See the data section and the publications section as well.


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Recent and Forthcoming Publications

The publications page of this website has a full list of my written work. For each publication there is a link to its source. If you are unable to find a particular publication, don't hestitate to contact me.

  • M. Fennema and E.M. Heemskerk. Forthcoming. 'When Theory Meets Methods: The Naissance of Computer Assisted Corporate Interlock Research' in Global Networks
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  • Fichtner, J., E.M. Heemskerk and J. Garcia-Bernardo. 2017 'Hidden Power of the Big Three? Passive Index Funds, Re-Concentration of Corporate Ownership, and New Financial Risk' in Business and Politics 17(1): 1-29,
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  • Heemskerk, E.M., M. Wats and K.Th. Heemskerk (2017). 'Conflict in the Boardroom: A Participant Observation Study of Non-Executive Board Dynamics' in Journal of Management and Governance 21(1), 233-263

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  • Takes, Frank.W. and Eelke M. Heemskerk. (2016) 'Centrality in the Global Network of Corporate Control' in Social Network Analysis and Mining 6(1): 1-18, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s13278-016-0402-5
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  • Heemskerk, Eelke M., Frank W. Takes, Javier Garcia-Bernardo and M. Jouke Huijzer. (2016) ‘Where is the global corporate elite? A large-scale network study of local and nonlocal interlocking directorates‘ in Sociologica (2/2016).
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  • Mokken, Robert J., Eelke M. Heemkerk and Steven Laan. 2016 ‘Close Communication and 2-Clubs in Corporate Networks: Europe 2010‘ in Social Network Analysis and Mining 6(1):40.
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  • Heemskerk, Eelke M., Meindert Fennema and William K. Caroll. (2016). 'The global corporate elite after the financial crisis: evidence from the transnational network of interlocking directorates' in Global Networks 16 (1), pp 68-88.
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  • Heemskerk, E.M. and Frank W. Takes. (2016). 'The corporate elite community structure of global capitalism' in New Political Economy 21(1), pp. 90-118
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