The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

Max Planck Sciences Po Center (MaxPo) event in the series Seminars and Colloquia On Ökonomie, Politics and Society (SCOOPS)

 

Speaker: Mark S. MIZRUCHI, University of Michigan
Discussants: Claire LEMERCIER and Pierre FRANCOIS, Sciences Po, CSO / CNRS

 

Mark S. MIZRUCHI is Professor of Sociology and Business Administration at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the economic and political behavior of large American corporations as well as the methods of social network analysis. His primary current project is a study of the changing nature of the American corporate elite, from the period immediately after World War II to the present. He is also involved in a study of the globalization of American banking and a study of methods for measuring the effects of social network ties. He teaches courses on economic sociology, sociological theory, social networks, and statistical methods. www-personal.umich.edu/~mizruchi/

 

Claire LEMERCIER is a CNRS research professor in history at Sciences Po, CSO. A specialist of economic institutions and especially of the role of justice and arbitration in relationships between firms, she is also investigating the boards of the largest French firms from the 1840s to the 2000s (with Pierre François). This research aims at putting together insights from business history, economic sociology, and the history and sociology of economic elites.
www.cso.edu/cv_equipe.asp?langue=en&per_id=168

 

Pierre FRANCOIS is a CNRS research professor at Sciences Po, CSO and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. An economic sociologist who has extensively studied dynamics of art worlds, he is currently conducting research on contemporary poetry since the 1960s in collaboration with Sébastien Dubois. He is also working on a historical sociology of firms and their managing directors since the beginning of the 19th century (with Claire Lemercier).
www.cso.edu/cv_equipe.asp?langue=en&per_id=58