Impacts of Globalization Processes on the Swiss National Business Elite Community: A Diachronic Analysis of Swiss Large Corporations (1980–2010)

Davoine, Éric; Ginalski, Stéphanie; Mach, André; Ravasi, Claudio

doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20150000043017

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“…Moreover, the scope of the present study was to investigate elite groups resulting from TM practices at the level of the organisation. However, even if there is some international convergence and the emergence of a transnational elite (Davoine et al ., 2015), elite groups may exert and convert their types of capital differently, according to the country in which they are working (Spence et al ., 2015). Future research could also investigate the impact of those countries of origin, where the headquarters of the MNC is located, on the characteristics of the elite.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, TM research suffers from the fact that employees' experiences of TM represent an under‐explored area (Collings, 2014). Second, whereas the literature on business elites often focuses on top managers (Davoine et al ., 2015) or employees in a dominant position within an organisation (Maclean et al ., 2010), we want to add to this research by focusing on the group of employees identified and selected by an organisation as individual talents. Third, and more precisely, in the present article we focus on global talent management (GTM), broadly defined as the ability to attract, develop and retain talent on a global scale (Vaiman et al ., 2012), as companies seek to fill their talent pipelines in this regard (Farndale et al ., 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exclusive Talent Management: Unveiling the Mechanisms of the Construction of an Elite Community

Bonneton

Festing

Muratbekova‐Touron

2020

European Management Review

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This paper aims at contributing to the talent management (TM) and organisation research fields by investigating the mechanisms of elite construction through an exclusive TM programme in a multinational company (MNC). We conducted an exploratory single-case study in an MNC operating in more than 15 countries, by interviewing HR managers as representatives of top management and participants in a TM programme in seven countries. Other data sources included non-participant observation and the use of internal and external documents. Our results show that talents develop a common elite identity based on exclusiveness, and additionally they gain access to resources and privileges through the mechanisms of performing rituals, acculturation through symbols, preferential treatment, social networking and the acquisition of insider knowledge. Furthermore, those employees identified as talents organise themselves in a closed, elite community. These results are summarised in a theory-based framework explaining the building of an elite through exclusive TM.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Exclusive Talent Management: Unveiling the Mechanisms of the Construction of an Elite Community

Bonneton

Festing

Muratbekova‐Touron

2020

European Management Review

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“…The compliance of the legal elite with the challenges of the time should be a guarantee of the spread of fundamental values in the development of society. The respective guarantees are (Davoine, Ginalski, Mach, & Ravasi, 2015):…”

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The Influence of the Ruling Elite on Political Activity in the Conditions of Destructuring the Essence of the Philosophy of Law

Kelman¹,

Kristinyak²,

Andrusiak³

et al. 2021

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Different policy actors have different influences on the process. Most do not directly participate in political life: a particular layer of people called the political elite is more likely to get involved in it. From a philosophical point of view, the political elite is mainly defined as a minority of society, a somewhat independent, relatively privileged group (or a set of groups) that has the appropriate psychological, social and political qualities and is directly involved in the formation and implementation of political decisions related to the use of state power or influence on it. The main goal of the article is to characterise the negative influence of the ruling elite on the formation of political activity in the context of revealing its possibilities of destructuring the essence of the philosophy of law itself. The methodology was based on the main historical and theoretical research methods that made it possible to achieve the set goal. As a result of the study, the main elements of the negative influence of the ruling elite were characterised, its place in the philosophy of law was determined and which destructuring consequences it has.

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“…by founding in 1999 the US-like think tank Avenir Suisse, which defended their interests through lobbying activity and the media (Mach et al 2021). Business elites relied more on transnational corporate forms of certification, such as MBAs (Bühlmann et al 2013;David et al 2012;Davoine et al 2015), and less upon family forms of reproduction (Mach et al 2016) and officer ranks in the military (Mach et al 2011). Swiss multinational companies lost centrality due to economic turmoil in the 2000s.…”

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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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Impacts of Globalization Processes on the Swiss National Business Elite Community: A Diachronic Analysis of Swiss Large Corporations (1980–2010)

Cited by 16 publications

References 36 publications

Exclusive Talent Management: Unveiling the Mechanisms of the Construction of an Elite Community

Exclusive Talent Management: Unveiling the Mechanisms of the Construction of an Elite Community

The Influence of the Ruling Elite on Political Activity in the Conditions of Destructuring the Essence of the Philosophy of Law

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

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