Dr. F.W. (Frank) Takes
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
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Postbus 15578
1001 NB Amsterdam
Contact details
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About
Frank Takes is a research fellow in the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in computer science at Leiden University, where he is currently also appointed as an assistant professor. His interest is among other things in computational social science, and his work with PETGOV colleagues focuses on questions related to the analysis of corporate and economic networks, in particular networks of interlocking directorates, as well as network science related problems in general.
Keywords: corporate governance, interlocking directorates, social networks, network science
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Publications
- refereed (30)
- academic (1)
- professional (1)
- popular scientific (2)
- recognitions (1)
- supervised theses (1)
- datasets (1)
2025
Menyhért, M., Bokányi, E., Corten, R., Heemskerk, E. M., Kazmina, Y., & Takes, F. W. (2025). Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks. EPJ Data Science, 14, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00522-4 [details]
2024
- Kazmina, Y., Heemskerk, E. M., Bokányi, E., & Takes, F. W. (2024). Socio-economic segregation in a population-scale social network. Social Networks, 78, 279-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.02.005 [details]
2023
- Bokányi, E., Heemskerk, E. M., & Takes, F. W. (2023). The anatomy of a population-scale social network. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 9209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36324-9 [details]
2022
- Boekhout, H. D., Heemskerk, E. M., & Takes, F. W. (2022). Evolution of the World Stage of Global Science from a Scientific City Network Perspective. In R. M. Benito, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, E. Moro, L. M. Rocha, & M. Sales-Pardo (Eds.), Complex Networks & Their Applications X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021 (Vol. 1, pp. 142-154). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 1015). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93409-5_13 [details]
- De Beule, F., Elia, S., Garcia-Bernardo, J., Heemskerk, E. M., Jaklič, A., Takes, F. W., & Zdziarski, M. (2022). Proximity at a distance: The relationship between foreign subsidiary co-location and MNC headquarters board interlock formation. International Business Review, 31(4), Article 101971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101971 [details]
- Meertens, Q. A., Diks, C. G. H., van den Herik, H. J., & Takes, F. W. (2022). Improving the output quality of official statistics based on machine learning algorithms. Journal of Official Statistics, 22(2), 485-508. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2022-0023 [details]
- Valeeva, D., Takes, F. W., & Heemskerk, E. M. (2022). Beaten paths towards the transnational corporate elite. International Sociology, 37(1), 97-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809211051661 [details]
- van Kuppevelt, D. E., Bakhshi, R., Heemskerk, E. M., & Takes, F. W. (2022). Community membership consistency applied to corporate board interlock networks. Journal of Computational Social Science, 5(1), 841-860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-021-00145-5 [details]
2021
- Mattsson, C. E. S., Takes, F. W., Heemskerk, E. M., Diks, C., Buiten, G., Faber, A., & Sloot, P. M. A. (2021). Functional Structure in Production Networks. Frontiers in Big Data, 4, Article 666712. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2021.666712 [details]
2020
- Meertens, Q. A., Diks, C. G. H., van den Herik, H. J., & Takes, F. W. (2020). A data‐driven supply‐side approach for estimating cross‐border Internet purchases within the European Union. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 183(1), 61-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12487 [details]
- Valeeva, D., Heemskerk, E. M., & Takes, F. W. (2020). The duality of firms and directors in board interlock networks: A relational event modeling approach. Social Networks, 62, 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.02.009 [details]
2019
- Boekhout, H. D., Kosters, W. A., & Takes, F. W. (2019). Counting Multilayer Temporal Motifs in Complex Networks. In L. M. Aiello, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, R. Lambiotte, P. Lió, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 (Vol. 1, pp. 565-577). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 812). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05411-3_46 [details]
- Fonhof, A. M. P., van der Bruggen, M., & Takes, F. W. (2019). Characterizing key players in child exploitation networks on the dark net. In L. M. Aiello, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, R. Lambiotte, P. Lió, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 (Vol. 2, pp. 412-423). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 813). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05414-4_33 [details]
- Helling, T. J., Scholtes, J. C., & Takes, F. W. (2019). A community-aware approach for identifying node anomalies in complex networks. In L. M. Aiello, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, R. Lambiotte, P. Lió, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 (Vol. 1, pp. 244-255). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 812). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05411-3_20 [details]
- Meertens, Q. A., Diks, C. G. H., van den Herik, H. J., & Takes, F. W. (2019). A Bayesian Approach for Accurate Classification-Based Aggregates. In T. Berger-Wolf, & N. Chawla (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (pp. 306-314). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975673.35 [details]
- Rademaker, X. T., Chaudron, M. R. V., & Takes, F. W. (2019). Automatic identification of component roles in software design networks. In L. M. Aiello, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, R. Lambiotte, P. Lió, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 (Vol. 2, pp. 145-157). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 813). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05414-4_12 [details]
- de Bruin, G. J., Veenman, C. J., van den Herik, H. J., & Takes, F. W. (2019). Understanding behavorial patterns in truck co-driving networks. In L. M. Aiello, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, R. Lambiotte, P. Lió, & L. M. Rocha (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications VII: Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018 (Vol. 2, pp. 223-235). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 813). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05414-4_18 [details]
2018
- Bogaardt, L., & Takes, F. W. (2018). Estimating Subgraph Generation Models to Understand Large Network Formation. In IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience: proceedings : 29 October-1 November 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pp. 375-376). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2018.00106 [details]
- Garcia-Bernardo, J., & Takes, F. W. (2018). The effects of data quality on the analysis of corporate board interlock networks. Information systems, 78, 164-172. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2017.10.005 [details]
- Heemskerk, E., Young, K., Takes, F. W., Cronin, B., Garcia-Bernardo, J., Henriksen, L. F., Kindred Winecoff , W., Popov, V., & Laurin-Lamothe , A. (2018). The promise and perils of using big data in the study of corporate networks: problems, diagnostics and fixes. Global Networks, 18(1), 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12183 [details]
- Takes, F. W., Kosters, W. A., & Witte, B. (2018). Detecting Motifs in Multiplex Corporate Networks. In C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, M. Karsai, & M. Musolesi (Eds.), Complex Networks & Their Applications VI: proceedings of Complex Networks 2017 : the Sixth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (pp. 502-515). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 689). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72150-7_41 [details]
- Takes, F. W., Kosters, W. A., Witte, B., & Heemskerk, E. M. (2018). Multiplex Network Motifs as Building Blocks of Corporate Networks. Applied Network Science, 3, Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-018-0094-z [details]
- van Kuppevelt, D. E., Takes, F. W., & Heemskerk, E. M. (2018). Understanding evolving communities in transnational board interlock networks. In IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience: proceedings : 29 October-1 November 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pp. 312-313). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2018.00069 [details]
2017
- Brinkmann, G. G., Rietveld, K. F. D., & Takes, F. W. (2017). Exploiting GPUs for Fast Force-Directed Visualization of Large-Scale Networks. In 2017 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP): 14-17 August 2017, Bristol, United Kingdom, proceedings (pp. 382-391). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPP.2017.47 [details]
- Garcia-Bernardo, J., Fichtner, J., Takes, F. W., & Heemskerk, E. M. (2017). Uncovering Offshore Financial Centers: Conduits and Sinks in the Global Corporate Ownership Network. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 6246. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06322-9 [details]
- Zdziarski, M., Heemskerk, E. M., Garcia-Bernardo, J., De Beule, F., Jaklic, A., Elia, S., & Takes, F. (2017). The power of proximity at a distance: The role of interlocking directorates in reducing the liability of outsidership. In International Business in the Information Age: 43rd European International Business Academy Conference http://hdl.handle.net/11311/1058649
2016
- Heemskerk, E. M., & Takes, F. W. (2016). The corporate elite community structure of global capitalism. New Political Economy, 21(1), 90-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2015.1041483 [details]
- Heemskerk, E. M., Takes, F. W., Garcia-Bernardo, J., & Huijzer, M. J. (2016). Where is the Global Corporate Élite? A Large-scale Network Study of Local and Nonlocal Interlocking Directorates. Sociologica, 2016(2). https://doi.org/10.2383/85292 [details]
- Takes, F. W., & Heemskerk, E. M. (2016). Centrality in the Global Network of Corporate Control. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 6(1), Article 97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0402-5 [details]
- van Engelen, J. E., Boekhout, H. D., & Takes, F. W. (2016). Explainable and Efficient Link Prediction in Real-World Network Data. In H. Boström, A. Knobbe, C. Soares, & P. Papapetrou (Eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XV: 15th International Symposium, IDA 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, October 13-15, 2016 : proceedings (pp. 295-307). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9897). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46349-0_26 [details]
2019
- van Engelen, J. E., van Lier, J. J., Takes, F. W., & Trautmann, H. (2019). Accurate WiFi based indoor positioning with continuous location sampling. In U. Brefeld, E. Curry, E. Daly, B. MacNamee, A. Marascu, F. Pinelli, M. Berlingerio, & N. Hurley (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10–14, 2018 : proceedings (Vol. 3, pp. 524-540). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 11053), (Lecture Notes in Artifical Intelligence). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10997-4_32 [details]
2021
- Buiten, G., Diks, C., Faber, A., Heemskerk, E., Mattsson, C., Takes, F., & Sloot, P. (2021). Netwerkanalyse biedt nieuwe inzichten voor clustergericht energiebeleid. Economisch-Statistische Berichten, 106(4804), 586-588. https://esb.nu/esb/20068796/netwerkanalyse-biedt-nieuwe-inzichten-voor-clustergericht-energiebeleid [details]
2017
- Fichtner, J. R. (Author), Garcia Bernardo, J. (Author), Heemskerk, E. M. (Author), & Takes, F. W. (Author). (2017). These five countries are conduits for the world’s biggest tax havens. Web publication or website https://theconversation.com/these-five-countries-are-conduits-for-the-worlds-biggest-tax-havens-79555
2016
- Heemskerk, E. M. (Author), & Takes, F. W. (Author). (2016). Brexit en de verdeeldheid van het Britse Old Boys netwerk. Web publication or website, Stuk Rood Vlees. http://stukroodvlees.nl/brexit-verdeeldheid-britse-old-boys-netwerk/
Media appearance
- Takes, F. W. (30-06-2018). Nederland koning in faciliteren belastingontwijking [Radio] dr Kelder en Co. Nederland koning in faciliteren belastingontwijking. https://www.nporadio1.nl/homepage/10404-big-data-en-belastingontwijking
2020
- Meertens, Q. A., Diks, C. & Takes, F. (7-12-2020). Global business register used to estimate cross-border internet purchases within the EU. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.13303082.v1
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Menyhért, M., Bokányi, E., Corten, R., Heemskerk, E. M., Kazmina, Y., & Takes, F. W. (2025). Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks. EPJ Data Science, 14, Article 8.