Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK

Strategic Management of Stakeholders: Theory and Practice

“…In the same way a stakeholder's power can often be described in relation to their position in the network of other stakeholders. This interactional aspect of stakeholder analysis e which can be depicted as a 'Stakeholder Influence Network Diagram' e aims to surface both the formal and informal relationships that are the bases of such social networks in a form similar to a sociogram (Cross and Prusak, 2002;Krackhardt and Hanson, 1993;Maclean et al, 2006;Noria, 1992). While using the power-interest grid, TMT members often commented on how power could depend on informal relationships.…”

National and international interlocking directorates within Europe: corporate networks within and among fifteen European countries

“…Later, Windolf (2002) extended his analysis to France, the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Most recently, Maclean, Harvey and Press (2006) studied the structure of business elites in the UK and France in 1998; this study included issues such as membership recruitment, governance and ownership of large companies, and elite networks that were represented by IDNs. Although they did not calculate network properties such as density and centralization, their data did show that the French IDN was much denser and more strongly centralized than the UK one.…”

Elites: Sociological Aspects

“…Since the turn of the millennium alone there have been quite a number of publications dealing first of all with the analysis of European elites, although in single cases also the elites of non-European countries such as Japan (Colignon and Usui, 2003) and the United States (Domhoff, 2009) are discussed. There exist both compilations of smaller country studies, such as on the political elites of Southern Europe (de Almeida et al, 2002) or the economic elites of East Europe (Lane et al, 2007), and publications which, on the basis of the authors' own empirical surveys, deal with the elites of Germany (Hartmann, 2013), Denmark (Christiansen et al, 2001;Ellersgard et al, 2013), France, and Great Britain (McLean et al, 2006), Norway (Gulbrandsen et al, 2002;Hjellbrekke and Korsnes, 2009) or of all of Europe (Hartmann, 2010). Usually it is about the social profile of elites, i.e., their social recruitment, their educational and career paths and their connections to each other.…”

“…The social-political attitudes of elites are included into the surveys only in the cases of Germany and Norway (Gulbrandsen et al, 2002;Hartmann, 2013). Theoretically, the functionalist concept of elites is still dominating; the majority of current empirical studies (Colignon and Usui, 2003;Domhoff, 2009;Ellersgard et al, 2013;Hartmann, 2013;Hjellbrekke and Korsnes, 2009;McLean et al, 2006), however, takes a critical attitude following the tradition of Mills and Bourdieu.…”

“…Furthermore, the individual subelites are very much different concerning their social origin. On the one hand, there is usually the business elite, whose social recruitment is frequently the most exclusive one; on the other hand, there are most of all the political and/ or administrative elites which are the most open ones in this respect (de Almeida et al, 2002;Hartmann, 2010;McLean et al, 2006). However, social origin varies much from country to country.…”