When theory meets methods: the naissance of computer assisted corporate interlock research

Fennema, Meindert; Heemskerk, Eelke M.

doi:10.1111/glob.12178

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“…The concept of a transnational capitalist class was first theorized at the end of the twentieth century, but computer-assisted empirical research on the transnational network of interlocking directorships had already taken off in the 1970s and 1980s (Fennema and Heemskerk 2018). Fennema's (1982) groundbreaking study on interlocks among the largest firms in North America, Europe, and Japan showed that the globalization of capitalism did not go hand in hand with the expected internationalization of corporate elite social structures.…”

Section: Global Elite Network-social Corporate Interlockingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Corporate elite networks, particularly board interlock ties, have been widely researched within the global economy and are associated with the exercise of power, consensus-building, and market control (Fennema and Heemskerk 2018;Sapinski and Carroll 2018). Building on this, Buch-Hansen and Henriksen (2019) consider within-industry board interlocks as a less binding form of market control in the European chemical industry throughout the twentieth century, supplementing episodes of more binding forms like cartels and corporate mergers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Verbeek

Mah

2020

Economic Geography

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Section: Global Elite Network-social Corporate Interlockingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Verbeek

Mah

2020

Economic Geography

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“…This work on corporate elites continued with seminal studies by Mills (1956), Porter (1956) and Domhoff (1967) setting the scene. When computer-assisted network analysis appeared on the scene in the early 1970s, it was first applied to corporate interlock networks by researchers in the Netherlands and the USA (Fennema and Heemskerk 2018;Fennema and Schijf 1978). Since then a rich research tradition has emerged with hundreds of studies on corporate interlock networks (Buch-Hansen 2014).…”

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Elites in transnational policy networks

Henriksen

Seabrooke

2020

Global Networks

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In this framing article for the special issue we contrast the aims and ambitions of three core approaches to elites in transnational policy networks and highlight where they have productive overlaps. The core approaches employ three distinctive theoretical lenses in their investigations: fields, hegemony, and institutions. We discuss how these approaches trace elites in transnational policymaking and associated methods, such as network analysis, sequence analysis and field theory, which highlight different aspects of how elites in transnational policy networks operate. Most of the contributions are concerned with mapping out elite careers and why career trajectories matter for field and network positions in transnational policymaking. While the contributions share this in common, we highlight the different ways in which the approaches can be used to dissect the same issues. Our contributions include pieces on the Trump administration, the professional ecologies of transnational policy elites, the treatment of transboundary political problems, the characteristics of technocratic elites, the racial and gender composition of transnational elites, and professional competition over transnational policy issues.

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“…Van der Pijl's (1984) book on The making of the Atlantic ruling class and Gill's (1990) work on the Trilateral Commission as a key transnational private planning body in the context of globalizing capitalism, link the analysis of transnational power structures to an understanding of American global power, as does Robinson's (2004) work, though from a somewhat different theoretical angle. A more recent related line of research, but one that does not specifically focus on either the USA or on how power structures relate to (foreign) policy outcomes, maps and analyses transnational corporate class and elite networks through the lens of interlocking directors, at transatlantic, European and global levels (Cárdenas 2015;Carroll 2010;de Graaff 2011de Graaff , 2012de Graaff , 2014 de Graaff and van Apeldoorn 2018; Heemskerk 2011; van Veen 2018; for a recent overview, see Fennema and Heemskerk 2018 and the introduction to this special issue).…”

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The transnationalist US foreign‐policy elite in exile? A comparative network analysis of the Trump administration

Graaff¹,

Apeldoorn²

2019

Global Networks

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The presidency of Donald Trump – often framed as a result of a populist revolt against the elites of Washington and Wall Street – and his apparent break with the postwar liberal internationalist foreign‐policy elite consensus, has raised fundamental questions about the future of elite power in the USA and the implications for its global role. As established by previous research, America's foreign‐policy elite has in the past decades been closely connected to transnationally oriented corporate elite networks, the theme of this special issue. In this article, we address to what extent the Trump presidency represents a real rupture with these extant power structures in the American political system and its foreign‐policy establishment. We present the first systematic mapping and social network analysis of Trump, his cabinet and his White House advisers, which, based on a novel biographical data set, compares earlier findings on the elite networks of the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. While finding some strong continuities, the Trumpian foreign‐policy elite is shown to display some very distinctive characteristics, particularly with respect to a lack of previous political affiliations, ties with a different kind of corporate elite, and a disconnect with the policy‐planning networks that have been so central to the previous administrations.

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When theory meets methods: the naissance of computer assisted corporate interlock research

Cited by 12 publications

References 69 publications

Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Elites in transnational policy networks

The transnationalist US foreign‐policy elite in exile? A comparative network analysis of the Trump administration

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