scholarly journals Pathways to the power elite: The organizational landscape of elite careers

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1170-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Houman Ellersgaard ◽  
Jacob Aagaard Lunding ◽  
Lasse Folke Henriksen ◽  
Anton Grau Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
After School ◽  
Power Elite ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Power Elite ◽  
Landed Gentry

To capture elites, we must map out the organizational landscape through which they pass during their careers. This organizational landscape moulds the character of elites, tells us about the prestige of organizations that are elite incubators and provides valuable indicators about how different sectoral experiences serve to accumulate capital for the elite. Unpacking the organizational experience challenges theoretical and methodological understandings of the elite character, calling for a renewed focus on the organizational embedding of elites after school. By analysing the occupational history of 416 highly central individuals in a Danish elite network, what we term ‘the power elite’, a very distinct set of career trajectories, running through a subset of large, well-established, interconnected organizations, is mapped and analysed. To understand the different ways in which the members of this power elite accumulate ‘organizational capital’ in different fields, sequence analysis on six distinct channels, sector, subsector, size, level, rhythm and geography, is applied. Through this multi-channel sequence analysis, 10 distinct clusters of career trajectories are identified, distinguishing primarily between four private sector clusters: corporate ambassadors, industrial inner circle, bankers and landed gentry; and six public sector clusters: state nobility, professional politicians, lobbyists, scientists, unionists, and education and local politics. Analysing the careers, private sector careers are shown to be more homogeneous than public sector careers, while careers based on positions with a democratic mandate, mainly politicians and union leaders, are more turbulent and unpredictable. We link pathways to social backgrounds, showing preference for pathways for the natives in the upper class.

Local politics and the local authority labour market

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Jill Walker
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Market Structures

The 1979 election heralded a new approach to public sector finance and employment. For local government, this has involved a new regulatory framework, which attempts to reproduce private sector financial and labour market structures. This article examines the effect of this new regulatory framework on the labour markets of three case study local authorities and the manner in which those effects have been mediated by local politics over the period 1979–1984

Living Wage Ordinances in the Public Sector

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.W. Von Bergen ◽  
William (Will) T. Mawer ◽  
Barlow Soper
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wage Floor

During the last decade more than 100 governmental units (primarily cities) have implemented living wage ordinances. These regulations require private sector employers who receive public funds through subsidies and contracts to pay their workforces a wage based on “need” rather than “skill.” Such ordinances feature a minimum wage floor that is higher—often much higher—than the traditional minimum wages set by state and federal legislation. This paper provides a history of the living wage movement and presents its benefits and challenges to assist local authorities in decision-making regarding this controversial and politicized issue.

Can public financing of the private sector defeat antimicrobial resistance?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack E James
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Drug Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Public Financing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cash Incentives ◽  
History Of

Abstract Public financing to incentivise private sector innovation in antimicrobial pharmaceuticals is believed by many to be necessary to defeat growing threats from antimicrobial resistance. Large cash incentives from the public sector are said to be essential to stimulate ‘normal’ market forces capable of unleashing much-needed innovation. However, there is little evidence to suggest that lack of innovation in drug development is peculiar to antimicrobials or that current deficits in the supply of antimicrobials is due to unique inefficiencies in the antimicrobial market. Neither the history of drug development in general nor of antimicrobial innovation in particular supports economic interventions intended to stimulate private sector supply of new antimicrobials. On the contrary, public underwriting of the private sector, which by definition is compelled to prioritise profit, risks dire consequences for future global health.

scholarly journals The Educational Sociology and Political Theology of Disenchantment: From the Secularization to the Securitization of the Sacred

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Gearon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Power Elite ◽  
Educational Sociology ◽  
Theoretical Synthesis ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Power Elite

This article provides an outline theoretical synthesis of educational sociological and political theology, through the concept of ‘disenchantment’ to afford insights on critical current debates around secularization and securitization. Drawing together two originating frameworks—Max Weber’s (1918) sociological theorization of religious authority’s intellectual demise as disenchantment of the modern world and Carl Schmitt’s (1922) contemporaneous framing of a political theology—this article argues that a bringing together of these apparently disparate perspectives facilitates an understanding of securitization as a staging post in the history of the secularization of religion in education. Here an educational sociology and political theology of disenchantment thereby provides embryonic evidence of the securitization of the sacred as a staging post in the history of secularization. It is argued, in conclusion, that all these framings are a matter of decision-making in the exercise of ideological, political and theological power in and through education. Such decision-making in educational policy presents new sociological and political-theological territory for empirical and theoretical analysis of the shifting sources of authority amongst what C. Wright Mills called the “power elite”.

scholarly journals Analysing elite careers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Aagaard Lunding ◽  
Christoph Houman Ellersgaard ◽  
Lasse Folke Henriksen ◽  
Anton Grau Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Power Elite ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Agglomerative Clustering ◽  
Optimal Matching ◽  
The Core ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Elite Networks ◽  
Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering

In this paper, we propose a methodological framework to analyse cross-sectorial elite career using sequence analysis to identify particular career trajectories. As empirical case, we use 416 members of the Danish power elite, found in the core of the Danish elite networks. We describe how career data can be constructed based on CV’s, how career states can be coded and how sequence analysis in combination with optimal matching and of hierarchical agglomerative clustering can be used to develop typologies of careers.

Does the Russian Government Pay a "Fair" Wage: Review of Studies

2015 ◽  
pp. 62-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Zhuravleva
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Omitted Variables ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Correct Evaluation ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Data Limitations ◽  
Fair Wage

This paper surveys the literature on public-private sector wage differentials for Russian labor market. We give an overview of the main results and problems of the existing research. The authors unanimously confirm that in Russia private sector workers receive higher wages relative to their public sector counterparts. According to different estimates the "premium" varies between 7 and 40%. A correct evaluation of this "premium" is subject to debate and is a particular case of a more general econometric problem of wage differentials estimation. The main difficulties are related to data limitations, self-selection and omitted variables. Reasons for the existence of a stable private sector "premium" in Russia are not fully investigated.

Corporate Social Reporting Practices In India

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Vipin Bihari Srivastava ◽  
Dr Manoj Kumar Mishra ◽  
Dr Wogari Negari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Corporate Social Reporting ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Corporate Social

"This paper aims to examine the extent of corporate social reporting practices in the annual reports of companies in India and to ascertain the differences if any, between public sector and private sector companies and to investigate what were the determinants of corporate social reporting . The study intends to answer the research questions which include: a) what variables could represent a Conceptual Model of Corporate Social Reporting consists of dependent variables and Independent variables? b) What are the factors of Corporate Social Reporting (COSOR) and how valid and reliable are these factors? c) What is the degree of COSOR by factors in public and private sector companies? d) What are the determinants of COSOR? What is the level of their influence on COSOR? A sample of 120 listed companies of National Stock Exchange of India was chosen and they were stratified in to public and private sector companies. A Corporate social reporting Index was constructed for data collection through content analysis from the annual reports. The results of the study revealed that social accounting information were disclosed in company’s annual reports, chairman’s speech, directors’ reports, notes to accounts, schedule to accounts and auditor’s report. The degree of corporate social reporting varies between public sector and private sector companies. The public sector companies have disclosed more corporate social reporting information than the private sector companies. The study found that higher the level of capital employed, earnings before depreciation and taxes, total assets and total sales higher was the level of corporate social reporting. However, the degree of influence of determinants on corporate social reporting was different among public and private sector companies. Most of the companies have disclosed corporate social information on voluntary basis. To improve the understandably, uniformity, and comparability of corporate social information, this study suggests making it mandatory. A standard format for disclosure of corporate social information shall be prescribed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs by amending the Indian Companies Act. The concept of social accounting is relatively new in India. This study suggests to include it in the commerce curriculum and also in the curriculum of CA/CWA/CS. Corporate Social Reporting is such a vast area of research that no single study can cover different dimensions related to it. Though some studies including the present study have been conducted on Corporate Social Reporting Practices in India, but still there is much potential of research in this area. Future research in this area will hopefully bring more brightening result measuring and analysing social costs and benefits data by manager as well as by other concerned. Since the subject is in the primary stage, an in-depth research is needed to be done in different sectors such as banking information technology, manufacturing etc. The results are specifically applicable to sample companies and generalisations can be made with caution. The results of the study are based on the data collected from published annual reports of sample companies using content analysis method. Corporate social reporting in company websites, brochures etc are not covered. Social cost and benefit analysis is not covered in this study.

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