All Outputs (29)

GtR - Access Gateway to Research data via the API (2019)
Digital Artefact
Smith, M. (2019). GtR - Access Gateway to Research data via the API. [R]

This R package allows you to extract data on UK research council funded projects. Data is accessed from Gateway to Research API. The functions allow the user to extract project outcomes and outputs, along with mapping collaboration networks arising f... Read More about GtR - Access Gateway to Research data via the API.

International production and trade in a high-tech industry: A multilevel network analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, M., Gorgoni, S., & Cronin, B. (2019). International production and trade in a high-tech industry: A multilevel network analysis. Social Networks, 59, 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.05.003

We propose a multilevel network approach as an alternative framework to analyse the international organisation of an industrial sector. We present a novel application of a multilevel Exponential Random Graph Model to a multilevel network of firms lin... Read More about International production and trade in a high-tech industry: A multilevel network analysis.

Automotive international trade networks: A comparative analysis over the last two decades (2018)
Journal Article
Gorgoni, S., Amighini, A., & Smith, M. (2018). Automotive international trade networks: A comparative analysis over the last two decades. Network Science, 6(4), 571-606. https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2018.18

This paper explores the structural changes in the international organization of automotive production since the early 1990s. We apply descriptive network measures to international trade data for the period 1993–2013 for three automotive component gro... Read More about Automotive international trade networks: A comparative analysis over the last two decades.

Networks of International Trade and Investment: Understanding globalisation through the lens of network analysis (2018)
Book
Gorgoni, S., Amighini, A., & Smith, M. (Eds.). (2018). Networks of International Trade and Investment: Understanding globalisation through the lens of network analysis. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press

In recent decades, the international economy has witnessed fundamental changes in the way manufacturing is organised: products are no longer manufactured in their entirety in a single location. Instead, the production process is often split across a... Read More about Networks of International Trade and Investment: Understanding globalisation through the lens of network analysis.

ITNr - International Trade Network (ITN) analysis in R (2018)
Digital Artefact
Smith, M. (2018). ITNr - International Trade Network (ITN) analysis in R. [R]

Functions to clean and process international trade data into an international trade network (ITN) are provided. It then provides a set a functions to undertake analysis and plots of the ITN (extract the backbone, centrality, blockmodels, clustering).... Read More about ITNr - International Trade Network (ITN) analysis in R.

GVTr - Global Value Trees in R (2017)
Digital Artefact
Smith, M. (2017). GVTr - Global Value Trees in R. [R]

This R package presents a set of functions to implement the Global Value Tree (GVT) analysis approach of world input-output data (WIOD) developed by: Zhu Z, Puliga M, Cerina F, Chessa A, Riccaboni M (2015) Global Value Trees. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126699... Read More about GVTr - Global Value Trees in R.

CompaniesHouse (2017)
Digital Artefact
Smith, M. (2017). CompaniesHouse. [R]

This is an R package to extract firm information from Companies House (using the API). The package also provides tools to analyse this data, with a focus on creating interlocking directorates networks.

The Hidden Story: understanding knowledge exchange partnerships with the creative economy (2017)
Report
Williams, A., Dovey, J., Cronin, B., Garside, P., Flintham, M., Smith, M., …Taylor, F. (2017). The Hidden Story: understanding knowledge exchange partnerships with the creative economy. University Alliance & AHRC

The Creative Industries are a significant sector for the success of the UK economy contributing £87.4bn GVA in 2015 (DCMS). It is therefore important that we use the research funds allocated to university support for this sector (over £46 million in... Read More about The Hidden Story: understanding knowledge exchange partnerships with the creative economy.

The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, M., Gorgoni, S., & Cronin, B. (2016, September). The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach. Paper presented at 5th Annual CIRANO-Sam M. Walton College of Business Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance, Fayetteville, Arkansas

In recent decades the organisation of production has changed, with production and manufacturing activities no longer taking place in a single location, with lower transportation and communication costs leading to production activities geographically... Read More about The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach.