Sub-theme 33: Elites and the Design of Institutions, Industries and Organizations

Convenors:
Glenn Morgan, Cardiff Business School, UK
Sigrid Quack, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany
Paul M. Hirsch, Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, G-111 – Chydenia
Elites and Legitimacy
Chair: Paul M. Hirsch
Elisabeth S. Clemens
The democratic dilemma
Raymond Loveridge
Designing legitimacy: The rise of global disursive elite coalitions and the creation of the third sector
Jonathan Murphy
The rise of the 1%: An organizational explanation
Session II: Thursday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, G-111 – Chydenia
Elites and Neoliberalism
Chair: Sigrid Quack
Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Gerhard Kling
Business elites and the field of power in France
Julie Froud, Ismail Erturk, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
Rediscovering technocratic elites in Europe
Glenn Morgan
Elites, varieties of capitalism and the crisis of neo-liberalism
Session III: Thursday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, G-111 – Chydenia
Elites, Power and Fields
Chair: Glenn Morgan
Delphine Gibassier
From Ecobilan to LCA: The French elite's capture of environmental management accounting tools' institutionalization process in France
Michael I. Reed and Michael Wallace
Elite discourse and institutional innovation: Making the hybrid happen in English public services
Rami Kaplan
Whose matrix is it? Business elite mobilization and the creation of the Corporate Social Responsibility framework, 1945–1959
Session IV: Friday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, G-111 – Chydenia
Elites in Emerging and Developing Economies
Chair: Jonathan Murphy
Mustafa Ozbilgin, Sibel Yamak, Ali Ergur and Artun Ünsal
Old and new elites: The impact of change
Héla Yousfi
Culture and management in "developing countries": Can local élites break away from the tradition/modernity dichotomy?
Alima Bissenova
From "common yard" to condominium and from intelligentsia to middle class: the trials of the emergence of the new ownership society in Kazakhstan
Session V: Friday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, G-111 – Chydenia
Elites and Networks
Chair: Ray Loveridge
Claudio Ravasi, Eric Davoine, Thomas David, Stephanie Ginalski and André Mach
The emergence of a transnational economic elite at the age of globalization: The case of Swiss large corporations (1980–2010)
Eelke Heemskerk and Eelke Heemskerk
How network effects determine the evolution of interlocking directorates
François-Xavier Dudouet, Eric Grémont and Antoine Vion
The structure of the Eurozone's business community
Markus Helfen, Elke Schüßler and Sebastian Botzem
Legitimizing corporate power in transnational arenas: Resources, constraints, strategies
Session VI: Saturday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, G-111 – Chydenia
Elites and Finance
Chair: Mike Reed
Ron Kerr and Sarah Robonson
Designing and contesting material and symbolic spaces for corporate elite reproduction: The case of the RBS business school’
Yuan Li
Managing controversies during institutional transformation
Florent Noël and Hélène Rainelli-Weiss
"Take the money and run?" A pragmatist sociology interpretation of the debate on traders' remuneration
Gerhard Schnyder, Gerarda Westerhuis and Thomas David
Banking on change: The canking elite as driver of institutional changes in the Netherlands and Switzerland (1950s–2000s)
Session VII: Saturday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, G-111 – Chydenia
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