European top management careers: a field-analytical approach

Bühlmann, Félix; Davoine, Éric; Ravasi, Claudio

doi:10.1080/14616696.2017.1371314

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“…Flemmen 2012) and summary measures of careers (e.g., Bühlmann, Davoine and Ravasi 2017, Ellersgaard, Larsen and Munk 2013, Hjellbrekke et al 2007, Lebaron 2000, Lebaron 2001, Lebaron 2008).…”

Section: Multiple Correspondence Analysis: the Structure Of Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

Toft

2017

The Sociological Review

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. Cover: Hanne Baadsgaard Utigard. Print production: Reprosentralen, University of Oslo. I am indebted to my two supervisors-Marianne Nordli Hansen and Johs. Hjellbrekke-for their invaluable help over the course of these past years. Not only have they read and re-read countless drafts and provided prompt and insightful remarks, but they have also always done so in a manner that has never made me lose faith in my own project or doubt their encouragement with regard to my pursuit of sociology. In addition to having massive respect for their sociological knowledge, I find them both to be particularly inclusive and generous in their supervision. By including me in research seminars, international workshops and networks, they have invited me to partake in a larger field of like-minded sociologists. For this invitation and so much more, I am very grateful.

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Section: Multiple Correspondence Analysis: the Structure Of Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

Toft

2017

The Sociological Review

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“…As international exchanges in the academic or economic field are dense, in these small countries, it is important to speak other languages, to know the habits and orientation of foreign clients or to possess a degree from a foreign university. In a comparative study on four national fields of top management, we found that while France and Germany's business elite is still rather nationally oriented, the Swiss business elite was much more internationalized (Bühlmann et al 2018). Swiss firms, at least in recent years, are apparently more open to promote managers to top positions who have no title from a Swiss university or who have any hardly linkages to the Swiss political field.…”

Section: Country Size and International Capitalmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…The second type of approach is concerned with studying the use and deployment of international capital, for instance in the economic (Igarashi and Saito 2014;Bühlmann et al 2018;Schneickert et al 2015), in the academic (Rossier et al 2015;Fourcade 2006) or in the administrative field (Dezalay 2004;Jansson 2016). Dezalay proposed an examination of the utilization of international forms of capital in national fields and how certain elite fractions deploy international capital in order to defend themselves against more "provincial" or "national" elite fractions.…”

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How to Study Elites’ “International Capital”? Some Methodological Reflections

Bühlmann

2020

Researching Elites and Power

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“…However, most scholars studied transnational student mobility in higher education and argued that studying abroad in the most prestigious global institutions allows upper classes to preserve a comparative advantage (Waters 2006;Wagner 2011;Findlay et al 2012). There are hints that mobility competence and multilingualism are gaining increasing importance in the recruiting decisions of top managers (Bühlmann et al 2018). Employers view the ability to move as a sign of geographical and cultural flexibility that is integral to occupying international positions (Draelants and Ballatore 2014).…”

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“…Therefore, we hypothesise that the accumulation and reproduction of cosmopolitan capital also depends on the socio-economic background of the parents and the typical mobility patterns of their occupations. Entrepreneurs and top managers are frequently mobile and must relocate throughout their careers (Bühlmann et al 2018). On the other hand, liberal professions and smaller self-employed are anchored in specific places to establish professional renown and stable client bases.…”

Section: The Social Origins Of the Five Fractions Of Shms Studentsmentioning

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Strategies of social (re)production within international higher education: the case of Swiss hospitality management schools

Delval

Bühlmann

2019

High Educ

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Globalisation has led to the transformation of the field of higher education, including an increase in international students' mobility and new offers of internationalised educational curricula "at home." This evolution provides new opportunities for both intentional and non-intentional strategies of educational internationalisation, which are a potentially important part of the social mobility and reproduction of the middle and upper classes. This article investigates the students of Swiss hospitality management schools (SHMSs)-institutions of higher education that are often privately run and characterised by a high degree of internationalisation. We explore the configurations of these students' "cosmopolitan capital" (a combination of cultural, linguistic and social assets acquired through transnational mobility or exposure to an international environment), and we ask how these configurations vary with regards to their social backgrounds, specifically concerning their proximity to the cultural versus the economic pole of the class structure. We carried out a multiple correspondence analysis of three dimensions of cosmopolitan capital of 381 students, used cluster analysis to identify five configurations of cosmopolitanism and then tested for the social characteristics of these students' parents by using a multinomial regression model. Our results showed various strategies of the accumulation, conversion and legitimation of cosmopolitan capital, and they emphasised the role that this form of capital plays in the mobility and reproduction strategies of these students' families.

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European top management careers: a field-analytical approach

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

How to Study Elites’ “International Capital”? Some Methodological Reflections

Strategies of social (re)production within international higher education: the case of Swiss hospitality management schools

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