This article analytically links asset management and the digital economy by analyzing the
structural power of venture capital (VC) investors. Therefore, I propose the notion of …

Debates on the digital economy neglect its political and financial underpinnings. This article
develops the theoretical framework of governing along the investment chain to grasp the …

In this contribution, we introduce 'career hubs' as an alternative to interlocking directorates
and propose to study transnational corporate elite networks with this new concept. Career …

Status attainment theories assert that individuals are recruited based on the length and
functional background of their training. Elite theories assume that top managers often …

A once-in-a-century pandemic has sparked an unprecedented health and economic crisis.
Less examined is how predatory financial investors have shaped the crisis and profited from …

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has
evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations …

In this article, I argue that small, but lucrative high-status subgroups lead to an upward
ratcheting of compensation levels through the diffusion of norms. Combining relational …

Echoing the recent revival of elite studies, we ask how financialization shapes the
composition of contemporary elites and how organizational mechanisms transform its …

Since the capitalist and colonial enclosure of land-qua-property, the property parcel has
served as the geographic foundation of land ownership. Bounded, self-contained, and …

The dominant economic explanations of the 20th century are not comprehensive enough to
describe the complexity of economy and society and their reliance on the biosphere …