Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization

Antipode

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 811-843

  Carroll, William K ^a   Fennema, Meindert ^b   Heemskerk, Eelke M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capitalist class formation; Corporate networks; European round table of industrialists; Finance capital; Interlocking directorates

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITAL; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ELITE POLITICS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955753402     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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