Career Paths in Institutional Business Elites: Finnish Family Firms from 1762–2010

Kansikas, Juha

doi:10.1017/eso.2015.37

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“…Changes in elite composition have been studied for long, from changes in the cabinet in the UK (Laski, 1928) and US (Mintz, 1975)-including links between cabinet and business (Freitag, 1975;Gill, 2018)-, or within business elites (Bendix & Howton, 1957;Friedman & Tedlow, 2003;Kaelble, 1980;Mills, 1945). Within the prosopography tradition (Broady, 2002;Lunding et al, 2020;Rossier, 2019), scholars studied collective biographies of elite groups spanning centuries, for example, on the Russian clergy (Plamper, 2000) or Finish business elites (Kansikas, 2015(Kansikas, , 2016, focusing on changes in social background, education, career trajectory and, sometimes, gender. It is shown how elites have slowly opened up to newcomers, while remaining very selective.…”

Section: Historical Elite Studiesmentioning

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From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015

Rossier

Ellersgaard

Larsen

et al. 2022

British Journal of Sociology

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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 organizations 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, before 1945, to an integrated corporatist elite, between the 1950s and 1980s, before fragmenting into a loose group, with an increased importance of corporate elites, 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, after the Second World War and (only) shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, elite circles expanded and included individuals with delegated forms of power, such as politicians and unionists. In the most recent cohort (2015), the share of corporate elites in the core is similar to the one before the First World War and during the interwar period. This return to the past echoes findings on wealth inequality and economic capital accumulation by a small group of individuals organized around the most powerful companies.

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Section: Historical Elite Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015

Rossier

Ellersgaard

Larsen

et al. 2022

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Within the prosopography tradition (Broady 2002;Rossier 2019;Lunding et al 2020), scholars studied collective biographies of elite groups spanning centuries, e.g. on the Russian clergy (Plamper 2000) or Finish business elites (Kansikas 2015(Kansikas , 2016, focusing on changes in social background, education, career trajectory and, sometimes, gender. It is shown how elites have slowly opened up to newcomers, while remaining very selective.…”

Section: Historical Elite Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Rossier¹,

Ellersgaard²,

Larsen³

et al. 2021

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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.

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Board Games: Antecedents of Australia’s Interlocking Directorates, 1910–2018

Wright¹

2022

Enterp. Soc.

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Interlocking directorates can encourage innovation, cooperation, and adherence to best practices or can contribute to collusion, corruption, and the stagnation of ideas. Research has identified the contingent nature of director networks, with outcomes dependent on the nature of the tie; the firms and individuals involved; and the institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural context. Distinguishing between helpful and harmful interlocks thus requires understanding the foundations on which they were built. This article is the first systematic, longitudinal analysis of the antecedents of interlocking directorates in Australia, complementing substantial international efforts to understand and compare director networks across the twentieth century. The network has been characterized by a relatively consistent long-run level of connection but substantial variation in the causes of interlocks. The director network in Australia has responded to the pragmatics of the board member occupation, with corporate governance regulations, the progress of the professions, banking and prudential practices, and the form of large organizations encouraging ties that were built on professional expertise and geographic proximity. These findings are important for policy makers, regulatory bodies, and scholars, highlighting the importance of understanding the contextual foundations of interlocks when assessing their potential for harm.

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Career Paths in Institutional Business Elites: Finnish Family Firms from 1762–2010

Cited by 7 publications

References 85 publications

From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015

From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015

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

Board Games: Antecedents of Australia’s Interlocking Directorates, 1910–2018

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