Emergence of the global elite


Diliara Valeeva

CORPNET, University of Amsterdam

Computational Sociology Meeting @ Institute for Advanced Studies / 12 July 2019

Elites today

  • Tax evasion
  • We are the 99%
  • Global inequality

One of the questions

Does the global labor market

for corporate executives exist?
 

2017

Telstra Corporation (AU)

1996-2007

Sun Microsystems (NZ)

2007-2016

Juniper Networks Inc (IT)

2014

Tesla (US)

2016-2017

ABB Ltd (CH)

Robyn Denholm, chair of the Tesla board since Nov 2018

2018

Tesla (US)

Career sequence:

NZ-IT-US-CH-AU-US

2000-2017, 10k largest corporations, 9k executives

       1        2        3        4        5        6         7        8        9     10

order of positions

individuals

Some examples: European cluster

       1        2        3        4        5        6         7        8        9     10

order of positions

individuals

      1        2        3        4        5        6         7        8        9     10

Some examples: Asian cluster

Conclusions

  • There is a global labor market
  • It is hierarchical, directed, complex
  • There is a core and periphery
  • Emergence of alternative centers

Diliara Valeeva

@diliara_valeeva

d.valeeva@uva.nl

This presentation online: slides.com/diliaravaleeva/comp-soc-ias

CORPNET

@uvaCORPNET

corpnet.uva.nl

Computational Sociology Meeting @IAS

By Diliara Valeeva

Computational Sociology Meeting @IAS

Computational Sociology Meeting at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Amsterdam, 12 July 2019.

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