Social scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and
financial elites: There’s a great need to understand who these
elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals but
also as a class. By examining elite business schools, the institutions
that train and prepare people to assume important leadership and
decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors, we
may also learn how the economic elites are made. A key argument in
this book is that elite schools are known to create powerful groups in
society, offering them the intellectual and analytical means to act as
leaders, but, most importantly, the social, moral and aesthetic skills
that are deemed necessary to exercise power; in all essential respects
elite schools consecrate people. By dominating much of higher
education today, and by doing so in a way that creates and reproduces
a market-based organization and control of society, elite business
schools represent certain interests and ideologies that affect the
lives of most people. In understanding how the modern economy is run,
elite business schools, therefore, represent critical study objects.
This book, based on an in-depth study of the Stockholm School of
Economics (SSE), offers a sociological analysis of the world of elite
business schools. Specifically, this book examines the consecration of
SSE’s students from a number of perspectives and in a number of
situations, focusing on student union activities, school culture,
faculty behavior, teaching, courses and alumni events, noting the
symbolic importance of economics and particularly the school’s
unique relation among the world’s business schools to the Nobel
Prize. The book addresses the topics with regards to the sociology of
elites, management education and organizational studies and will be of
interest to researchers, academics, and students also interested in
business history, higher education studies, and sociology of
education.
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ISBN
9781000530193
Publisert
2021
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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