Johan S G Chu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan S G Chu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan S G |
| FAMILY NAME | Chu |
| SIGNATURE | CHU J S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3669-0088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It’s a theoretical, not an empirical, piece: Reply to Babones
We are grateful to Salvatore Babones for his extremely stimulating comments on our article, and we appreciate the opportunity to engage with them.We must begin with a clarification, however: Babones's overview of our argument is not inaccurate, but his focus on one relatively small piece-our "brief historical digression" and the accompanying discussion of elite fragmentation-may lead to a misleading portrayal of what we were doing.As we tried to …
The power of fragmented elites: The Role of Inadvertent Robust Action
It is broadly accepted among political scientists, political sociologists, and social movement theorists that a unified group will have a higher probability of success than a group that experiences internal divisions or fragmentation. Similarly, it has been assumed that in a society with a relatively unified elite, the elite will experience disproportionately higher benefits relative to the larger population. We take issue with this claim. In the…
Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
U.S. corporations have shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation was connected through short paths and elevating a handful of well-connected directors to an influential “inner circle.” This network remained highly connected throughout the 20th century, serving as a mechanism for the rapid diffusion of information and practices and promoting elite c…
Elites
By definition, individual elite actors have a disproportionately high level of resources at their disposal with which to influence society. The question is whether such elites are able to act in a unified and effective manner. During the twentieth century, scholars discovered mechanisms that led to elite cohesion and unified political action. In the early twenty‐first century, these mechanisms have ceased to function. Elite researchers are thus f…
Stability and Change in Corporate Governance
Corporate governance describes the process that allocates power and resources within organizations and the societal institutions that shape how they look, how they make decisions, and how the proceeds from their activities are divided. Research and theory traditionally focused on the institutions that overcome the separation of ownership and control created by dispersed shareholdings. Critics noted that this problem was distinctively American, an…
Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
U.S. corporations have shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation was connected through short paths and elevating a handful of well-connected directors to an influential “inner circle.” This network remained highly connected throughout the 20th century, serving as a mechanism for the rapid diffusion of information and practices and promoting elite c…
The power of fragmented elites: The Role of Inadvertent Robust Action
It is broadly accepted among political scientists, political sociologists, and social movement theorists that a unified group will have a higher probability of success than a group that experiences internal divisions or fragmentation. Similarly, it has been assumed that in a society with a relatively unified elite, the elite will experience disproportionately higher benefits relative to the larger population. We take issue with this claim. In the…
Elites
By definition, individual elite actors have a disproportionately high level of resources at their disposal with which to influence society. The question is whether such elites are able to act in a unified and effective manner. During the twentieth century, scholars discovered mechanisms that led to elite cohesion and unified political action. In the early twenty‐first century, these mechanisms have ceased to function. Elite researchers are thus f…
Stability and Change in Corporate Governance
Corporate governance describes the process that allocates power and resources within organizations and the societal institutions that shape how they look, how they make decisions, and how the proceeds from their activities are divided. Research and theory traditionally focused on the institutions that overcome the separation of ownership and control created by dispersed shareholdings. Critics noted that this problem was distinctively American, an…
Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
U.S. corporations have shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation was connected through short paths and elevating a handful of well-connected directors to an influential “inner circle.” This network remained highly connected throughout the 20th century, serving as a mechanism for the rapid diffusion of information and practices and promoting elite c…
It’s a theoretical, not an empirical, piece: Reply to Babones
We are grateful to Salvatore Babones for his extremely stimulating comments on our article, and we appreciate the opportunity to engage with them.We must begin with a clarification, however: Babones's overview of our argument is not inaccurate, but his focus on one relatively small piece-our "brief historical digression" and the accompanying discussion of elite fragmentation-may lead to a misleading portrayal of what we were doing.As we tried to …
The power of fragmented elites: The Role of Inadvertent Robust Action
It is broadly accepted among political scientists, political sociologists, and social movement theorists that a unified group will have a higher probability of success than a group that experiences internal divisions or fragmentation. Similarly, it has been assumed that in a society with a relatively unified elite, the elite will experience disproportionately higher benefits relative to the larger population. We take issue with this claim. In the…
Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Cohesion (chemistry) (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Law (2 works)