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Valeeva, Diliara; Takes, Frank W; Heemskerk, Eelke M Beaten paths towards the transnational corporate elite Journal Article In: International Sociology, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 97-123, 2021. @article{Valeeva2021,
title = {Beaten paths towards the transnational corporate elite},
author = {Diliara Valeeva and Frank W Takes and Eelke M Heemskerk},
url = {DOI: 10.1177/02685809211051661
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02685809211051661},
doi = {10.1177/02685809211051661},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-12-09},
journal = {International Sociology},
volume = {37},
number = {1},
pages = {97-123},
abstract = {The transnationalization of economic activities has fundamentally altered the world. One of the consequences that has intrigued scholars is the formation of a transnational corporate elite. While the literature tends to focus on the topology of the transnational board interlock network, little is known about its driving mechanisms. This article asks the question: what are the trajectories that corporate elites follow in driving the expansion of this network? To answer this, the authors employ a novel approach that models the transnationalization of elites using their board appointment sequences. The findings show that there are six transnationalization trajectories corporate elites follow to expand the network. The authors argue that while the transnational elite network appears as a global social structure, its generating mechanisms are regionally organized. This corroborates earlier findings on the fragmentation of the global network of corporate control, but also provides insights into how this network was shaped over time.},
keywords = {corporate elites, elite networks, interlocking directorates, sequence analysis, transnational elite},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
The transnationalization of economic activities has fundamentally altered the world. One of the consequences that has intrigued scholars is the formation of a transnational corporate elite. While the literature tends to focus on the topology of the transnational board interlock network, little is known about its driving mechanisms. This article asks the question: what are the trajectories that corporate elites follow in driving the expansion of this network? To answer this, the authors employ a novel approach that models the transnationalization of elites using their board appointment sequences. The findings show that there are six transnationalization trajectories corporate elites follow to expand the network. The authors argue that while the transnational elite network appears as a global social structure, its generating mechanisms are regionally organized. This corroborates earlier findings on the fragmentation of the global network of corporate control, but also provides insights into how this network was shaped over time. |
Valeeva, Diliara Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite? Journal Article In: Global Networks, pp. 1-17, 2021. @article{Valeeva2021b,
title = {Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?},
author = {Diliara Valeeva},
url = {DOI: 10.1111/glob.12351
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/glob.12351},
doi = {10.1111/glob.12351},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-11-15},
urldate = {2021-11-15},
journal = {Global Networks},
pages = {1-17},
abstract = {The transnationalization of corporate activities has contributed to a rise in the number of transnational professionals and transnational corporate elite members. These transnational actors establish ties within and across national borders and contribute to the formation of a more connected global corporate network. And yet little is known about the geographical locations through which these transnational corporate elites operate, both nationally and internationally. This article aims to fill this gap by applying the network backbone detection algorithm to detect the global cities that are connected through the
operations of the transnational corporate board members. The article detects the backbone of around 300 global cities, centered around London, New York and Hong Kong. The findings show that the backbone is currently structuring over a set of border-crossing communities and expanding to the locations beyond the Anglophone corporate world. The study interprets the presence of these new communities as the first signs toward the convergence of practices, norms and possibly identities of national elite members.},
keywords = {board interlocks, elite networks, transnationalism, world city networks},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
The transnationalization of corporate activities has contributed to a rise in the number of transnational professionals and transnational corporate elite members. These transnational actors establish ties within and across national borders and contribute to the formation of a more connected global corporate network. And yet little is known about the geographical locations through which these transnational corporate elites operate, both nationally and internationally. This article aims to fill this gap by applying the network backbone detection algorithm to detect the global cities that are connected through the
operations of the transnational corporate board members. The article detects the backbone of around 300 global cities, centered around London, New York and Hong Kong. The findings show that the backbone is currently structuring over a set of border-crossing communities and expanding to the locations beyond the Anglophone corporate world. The study interprets the presence of these new communities as the first signs toward the convergence of practices, norms and possibly identities of national elite members. |