scholarly journals Emerging Sino–European Corporate Elite Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1147-1173
Author(s):  
Nana Graaff ◽  
Diliara Valeeva
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Elite ◽  
Elite Networks

scholarly journals From Integrated to Fragmented Elites. The Core of Swiss Elite Networks 1910-2015

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Rossier ◽  
Christoph Houman Ellersgaard ◽  
Anton Grau Larsen ◽  
Jacob Aagaard Lunding
Keyword(s):  
Family Ties ◽  
The Core ◽  
Corporate Elite ◽  
Elite Networks ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Network Cohesion ◽  
Corporate Elites ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Over Time

This article focuses on historical elite dynamics and investigates elites’ integration over time. We describe the changing relations and composition of the central circles in Swiss elite networks at seven benchmark years between 1910 and 2015 by relying on 22,262 elite individuals tied to 2587 organisations among eight key sectors, and identify for each year the most connected core of individuals. We explore network cohesion and sectoral bridging of the elite core and find that it moved from being a unitary corporate elite following family-based elite reproduction, before 1945, to an integrated corporatist elite involved in educational and professional-based reproduction, between the 1950s and 1980s, before fragmenting into a loose group in the 1990s onwards. The core was always dominated by business and their forms of legitimacy but, at times of crisis to the hegemony of corporate elites, elite circles expanded and included individuals with delegated forms of power, such as politicians and unionists, detaining more university credentials, and less transnational connections and elite family ties.

Corporate Elite Networks and Governance Changes in the 1980s

1997 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald F. Davis ◽  
Henrich R. Greve
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Elite ◽  
Elite Networks ◽  
Governance Changes

The Mindful Elite

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Kucinskas
Keyword(s):  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Ivy League ◽  
Fortune 500 Companies ◽  
Elite Networks ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The People ◽  
Fortune 100 ◽  
Public Consciousness

From the halls of the Ivy League to the C-suite at Fortune 500 companies, this book reveals the people behind the mindfulness movement, and the engine they built to propel mindfulness into public consciousness. Based on over a hundred interviews with meditating scientists, religious leaders, educators, businesspeople, and investors, this book shows how this highly accomplished, affluent group has popularized meditation as a tool for health, happiness, and social reform over the past forty years. Rather than working through temples or using social movement tactics like protest to improve society, they mobilized by building elite networks advocating the benefits of meditation across professions. They built momentum by drawing in successful, affluent people and their prestigious institutions, including Ivy League and flagship research universities, and Fortune 100 companies like Google and General Mills. To broaden meditation’s appeal, they made manifold adaptations along the way. In the end, does mindfulness really make our society better? Or has mindfulness lost its authenticity? This book reveals how elite movements can spread, and how powerful spiritual and self-help movements can transform individuals in their wake. Yet, spreading the dharma came with unintended consequences. With their focus on individual transformation, the mindful elite have fallen short of the movement’s lofty ambitions to bring about broader structural and institutional change. Ultimately, this idealistic myopia unintentionally came to reinforce some of the problems it originally aspired to solve.

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