Spreading Effect in Industrial Complex Network Based on Revised Structural Holes Theory

PLoS One. 2016 May 24;11(5):e0156270. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156270. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

This paper analyzed the spreading effect of industrial sectors with complex network model under perspective of econophysics. Input-output analysis, as an important research tool, focuses more on static analysis. However, the fundamental aim of industry analysis is to figure out how interaction between different industries makes impacts on economic development, which turns out to be a dynamic process. Thus, industrial complex network based on input-output tables from WIOD is proposed to be a bridge connecting accurate static quantitative analysis and comparable dynamic one. With application of revised structural holes theory, flow betweenness and random walk centrality were respectively chosen to evaluate industrial sectors' long-term and short-term spreading effect process in this paper. It shows that industries with higher flow betweenness or random walk centrality would bring about more intensive industrial spreading effect to the industrial chains they stands in, because value stream transmission of industrial sectors depends on how many products or services it can get from the other ones, and they are regarded as brokers with bigger information superiority and more intermediate interests.

MeSH terms

  • Economic Development
  • Industrial Development*
  • Models, Theoretical

Grants and funding

This work was sponsored by Beijing Postdoctoral Science Foundation to LZX (Grant No. 2015ZZ-42, http://www.bjrbj.gov.cn/) and Beijing Municipal Commission of Education Porject to JG (Grant No. 14JDJGB039, http://www.bjedu.gov.cn/).