High earnings through firm influence: the role of hierarchical structures in public procurement
Image credit: CRiSS-LABAbstract
Public procurement markets are highly structured networks. Using over one million Portuguese public procurement contracts, this article shows that modularity, hierarchy, specialization, and firms’ network influence help explain which firms achieve higher earnings per bid.
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EPJ Data Science, 14, 27
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor and Head of CRiSS-LAB, School of Engineering and School of Government, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.
My research interests include applied AI, computational social science, network science, collective intelligence, school coexistence, decision intelligence, and business analytics.
