“…One exception to this (as Savage and Williams, 2008, note) has been Bourdieu, in particular his studies of Heidegger's social trajectory into the philosophical field of 1920s-1939s Germany (Bourdieu, 1996), his study of the French elite grandes e´coles (Bourdieu, 1998) and his discussions of class and aesthetic taste (Bourdieu, 1979). More recently, the Anglophone world has seen a growth of Bourdieusian-influenced work on elites: for example, Bennett et al (2005) on cultural capital and British elites, Maclean et al (2006) and Harvey and Maclean (2008) on French and British business elites, Lebaron (2008) In this paper, we extend a Bourdieusian approach to the study of leadership, making the connection between leaders and elite fields, that is, considering banking leaders as members of a social field (a field of power).…”