Informal networking can be seen as a positive activity with beneficial outcomes for
individuals, firms, and society as a whole, but informal networking can also lead to collusion …

This book investigates the changing opportunities in higher education for different social
groups during China's transition from the socialist regime to a market economy. The first part …

In recent decades, accelerating processes of globalization and an increase in economic
inequality in most of the world's countries have raised the question of the emergence of a …

The article offers a socio-economic explanation of the much-discussed proliferation of
evaluations, performance indicators, rankings and ratings in higher education and research …

The 2008 crisis has reactivated crucial debates regarding the relationship and tension
between creation of wealth and its redistribution. Those debates coincide with a renewed …

Die globale Wirtschaftselite gibt es nicht. Die internationale Superelite, die die Fäden zieht
und von den Großkonzernen aus die Welt regiert, gibt es nicht. Michael Hartmann …

Elites and elite rule are obviously anything but new topics, whether in public debate or in the
social sciences. There is a long democratic tradition of scrutinizing the high and the mighty …

This study examines the maintenance of highly institutionalized practices during periods of
vehement contestation and changing external demands. Employing a cross-level …

This article analyses the evolution of the influence of social background on educational and
occupational achievement across the 20th century in France. We use pooled data from the …

This article examines the ways in which cosmopolitanism is imagined and planned for by 91
young women attending four private (elite) schools in one area of England. Despite many …