Felix Bühlmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112389 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Felix Bühlmann |
| PRENOMES | Felix |
| SOBRENOME | Bühlmann |
| ASSINATURA | BÜHLMANN F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3189-0600 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 226 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Networks of interest defence
The rise of US asset management and the expansion of assetisation into essential sectors such as healthcare or housing have intensified political scrutiny and public backlash. Amid counter-mobilisations and calls for social values in capitalism, this study examines asset managers’ networks that serve as an infrastructure of interest defence. Empirically, we map executive and board members’ affiliations with policy organisations and philanthropic …
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street
Echoing the recent revival of elite studies, we ask how financialization shapes the composition of contemporary elites and how organizational mechanisms transform its characteristics in terms of class, gender and race. We ask whether the bureaucratization of finance contributed to a 'purge' of particularisms. Or to the contrary, whether class, race and gender have become more salient criteria of elite selection with the emergence of neo-patrimoni…
Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field
The past decade has been marked by a series of global crises, presenting an opportunity to reevaluate the relationship between science and politics. The biological sciences are instrumental in understanding natural phenomena and informing policy decisions. However, scholars argue that current scientific expertise often fails to account for entire populations and long-term impacts, hindering efforts to address issues such as biodiversity loss, glo…
How career hubs shape the global corporate elite
In this contribution, we introduce 'career hubs' as an alternative to interlocking directorates and propose to study transnational corporate elite networks with this new concept. Career hubs, the most frequent common career organizations, put emphasis on knowledge brokering and allow us to study a larger variety of organizations to understand the form and the spread of elite networks. We use a sample of 1366 firms on the Forbes 2000 list of 2018 …
L'organisation collective du grand patronat américain
Nous contribuons au débat sur la ' fracturation des élites ' en examinant l'organisation collective du patronat américain dans le domaine extraprofessionnel. Nous utilisons les informations d'une base de données originale pour analyser un réseau biparti, reliant 1 472 administrateurs et dirigeants d'entreprises issus de dix secteurs économiques à 5 590 organisations dans huit domaines sociaux différents. En s'inspirant de la théorie de la mobilis…
Les élites bancaires suisses
Cet article se propose d'étudier la manière selon laquelle l'internationalisation du milieu bancaire helvétique a transformé les carrières de ses élites bancaires. En combinant une analyse des correspondances multiples des dirigeants des 37 plus grandes banques suisses en 2010 avec une analyse qualitative fondée sur des données prosopographiques et des entretiens biographiques, nous montrons que les carrières des dirigeants bancaires sont polaris…
Elite recruitment in US finance
Status attainment theories assert that individuals are recruited based on the length and functional background of their training. Elite theories assume that top managers often deviate from these socially acceptable mechanisms of status attainment to entrench their advantage. In this study, focusing on the US financial sector, we investigate whether educational institution prestige-rather than the subject or length of education-increasingly influe…
The paradox of local inequality
A puzzle has emerged amidst rising inequality: why do people profess high levels of belief in meritocracy even as income gains are increasingly concentrated at the top? In light of contradictory theories and evidence, we undertake the first assessment of the relationship between local income inequality and meritocratic beliefs outside the United States, using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We find that the positive relationship be…
The transformation of professors’ careers
Over the recent decades, the turn to managerial governance has thoroughly transformed the European university systems and, by extension, the careers of university professors. Scholars postulated that professors’ careers have undergone an increasing formalization, that disciplinary careers have been hybridized, and that new modes of selection and recruitment (through assistant professorship) have been introduced. This article, based on a case stud…
From Quiet to Noisy Politics
During most of the twentieth century, it was possible to consider Switzerland a coordinated market economy, characterized by dense interfirm networks and the strong role of business associations. Thanks to their cohesion and collective organization, in a context of quiet politics and informal institutions, business elites could largely self-regulate major socioeconomic issues in the shadow of politics. However, since the end of the twentieth cent…
L'espace professionnel infirmier
Résume La profession infirmière connait une rapide croissance des effectifs dans tous les pays occidentaux. Avec la multiplication des secteurs extrahospitaliers, l'académisation des formations et l'instauration de hiérarchies propres, cette croissance s'accompagne d'un processus de différenciation horizontal autant que vertical. Dans un tel contexte, il convient de restituer les enjeux qui traversent la profession en tenant compte de l'ensemble …
Braucht es eine Romantik der Bürgerlichkeit, um den gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus zu verstehen? Kommentar zu « Retour vers le futur »
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
New Directions in Elite Studies
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the ‘one percent’ has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research
European top management careers
Research on European business elites has been dominated by a ‘national career model’ approach, arguing that each country has a specific top management career pattern. In recent years, this line of argument has been challenged due to the increasing international circulation of top managers. To examine the impact of internationalisation on career models, we will draw on a database of 916 top managers in Germany, Switzerland, France and Britain. Our…
Mapping the Power of Law Professors
The Rise of Professors of Economics and Business Studies in Switzerland
This paper studies the rise of professors of economics and business studies in the second half of the 20th century in Switzerland. It focuses on three types of power resources: positions in the university hierarchy, scientific reputation and extra-academic positions in the economic and political spheres. Based on a biographical database of N = 487 professors, it examines how these resources developed from 1957 to 2000. We find that professors of …
De la sociologie de l’innovation à l’imagination sociologique. La théorie des champs à l’épreuve de la profession infirmière
Si l’on suit la perspective de Saussure pour qui le point de vue crée l’objet, la « nouveauté » d’un objet sociologique suppose au moins autant le renouvellement de son approche que la « nouveauté intrinsèque » de celui-ci. Dans cet article, nous privilégions la voie d’un tel renouvellement en mettant à l’épreuve un « vieil objet » par une « approche ancienne ». Nous inscrivant à contre-courant d’une tendance à la parcellisation de la discipline …
Geneva's philanthropists around 1900
This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social and cultural) and were involved in philanthropic activities related to their social status. Together, those philanthropists formed a social field. They were connected to each other and even need…
Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle
Resting on a new database on professors of law and economic sciences from Swiss universities in the 20th century, this article accounts for different dynamics of internationalisation of this elite group. Three major conclusions can be drawn from our analyses: first, we can divide the 20th century in three distinct historic periods. A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nati…
Advances in Sequence Analysis
Advances in Sequence Analysis
Catch me if you can
A typical and precarious employment has become an increasingly important issue in the last 30 years. However, atypical employment includes very heterogeneous forms of work and is difficult to capture empirically. In this paper we propose a configurational approach in order to overcome these difficulties. We conceptualise the labour market as a field and investigate the data of the 2004 sweep of the Swiss Household Panel with a multiple correspond…
Cosmopolitan Capital and the Internationalization of the Field of Business Elites
The aim of this contribution is to explore how the recent internationalization and the increasing importance of 'cosmopolitan capital' has impacted on the structure and character of the field of the Swiss business elite. For this purpose we will develop the notion of cosmopolitan capital and comparatively investigate the field of the Swiss business elite in 1980, 2000 and 2010 with multiple correspondence analysis. We can show that in this period…
Political and Economic Elites in Switzerland
As a legacy of the early stages of its state building process, Switzerland continues to be characterised by a cohesive elite whose members simultaneously occupy political and economic positions. Whereas sectoral analyses of the economic or political elite are widespread, few researchers have scrutinised the connections between business and politics. Therefore, this paper focuses on the linkages between the economic and political fields. Based on …
Cosmopolitan Capital and the Internationalization of the Field of Business Elites
The aim of this contribution is to explore how the recent internationalization and the increasing importance of 'cosmopolitan capital' has impacted on the structure and character of the field of the Swiss business elite. For this purpose we will develop the notion of cosmopolitan capital and comparatively investigate the field of the Swiss business elite in 1980, 2000 and 2010 with multiple correspondence analysis. We can show that in this period…
Telling a modest story
While the pattern of social mobility in postwar Britain has been extensively studied, revealing considerable upward mobility, much less is known about the subjective dimension to mobility. In this article, we employ a new sample of in-depth interviews with 50-year old men from the National Child Development Study to examine in detail the link between objective mobility patterns and the way the upwardly mobile narrate their life trajectories. In c…
The Swiss business elite (1980–2000)
In this paper we analyse the decline of the Swiss corporate network between 1980 and 2000. We address the theoretical and methodological challenge of this transformation by the use of a combination of network analysis and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Based on a sample of top managers of the 110 largest Swiss companies in 1980 and 2000 we show that, beyond an adjustment to structural pressure, an explanation of the decline of the networ…
The Division of Labour Among European Couples
Even though egalitarian gender values are increasingly spreading among younger Europeans, division of labour does not always comply with this trend. Traditional theories of familial behaviour struggle to explain the resulting paradoxical simultaneity of egalitarian values and inegalitarian practices. In this article, we propose an approach based on the ideas that (i) practices are the translation of values moderated by specific social structures …
From Quiet to Noisy Politics
During most of the twentieth century, it was possible to consider Switzerland a coordinated market economy, characterized by dense interfirm networks and the strong role of business associations. Thanks to their cohesion and collective organization, in a context of quiet politics and informal institutions, business elites could largely self-regulate major socioeconomic issues in the shadow of politics. However, since the end of the twentieth cent…
The paradox of local inequality
A puzzle has emerged amidst rising inequality: why do people profess high levels of belief in meritocracy even as income gains are increasingly concentrated at the top? In light of contradictory theories and evidence, we undertake the first assessment of the relationship between local income inequality and meritocratic beliefs outside the United States, using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We find that the positive relationship be…
Routes into the British Service Class
Goldthorpe's conception of mobility into the service class relies strongly on biographical explanations. Hence, it is surprising that empirically biographical trajectories are often approached using methodological proxies. Employing a sequence analysis of the work histories of 13,119 members of the National Child Development Study's 1958 cohort, we examine different routes into the service class. It appears that there are two important roads lead…
Elite recruitment in US finance
Status attainment theories assert that individuals are recruited based on the length and functional background of their training. Elite theories assume that top managers often deviate from these socially acceptable mechanisms of status attainment to entrench their advantage. In this study, focusing on the US financial sector, we investigate whether educational institution prestige-rather than the subject or length of education-increasingly influe…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Mapping the Power of Law Professors
Political and Economic Elites in Switzerland
As a legacy of the early stages of its state building process, Switzerland continues to be characterised by a cohesive elite whose members simultaneously occupy political and economic positions. Whereas sectoral analyses of the economic or political elite are widespread, few researchers have scrutinised the connections between business and politics. Therefore, this paper focuses on the linkages between the economic and political fields. Based on …
European top management careers
Research on European business elites has been dominated by a ‘national career model’ approach, arguing that each country has a specific top management career pattern. In recent years, this line of argument has been challenged due to the increasing international circulation of top managers. To examine the impact of internationalisation on career models, we will draw on a database of 916 top managers in Germany, Switzerland, France and Britain. Our…
The Corrosion of Career?-Occupational Trajectories of Business Economists and Engineers in Switzerland
Achievement careers are regarded as a distinctive element of the post-war period in occidental societies. Such a career was at once a modal trajectory of the modern parts of middleclass men and a social emblem for progress and success. However, if the achievement career came to be a biographical pattern with great normative power, its precise sequential course remained vague. Theories of the 1960s and 1970s described it as an orderly advancement …
How career hubs shape the global corporate elite
In this contribution, we introduce 'career hubs' as an alternative to interlocking directorates and propose to study transnational corporate elite networks with this new concept. Career hubs, the most frequent common career organizations, put emphasis on knowledge brokering and allow us to study a larger variety of organizations to understand the form and the spread of elite networks. We use a sample of 1366 firms on the Forbes 2000 list of 2018 …
Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle
Resting on a new database on professors of law and economic sciences from Swiss universities in the 20th century, this article accounts for different dynamics of internationalisation of this elite group. Three major conclusions can be drawn from our analyses: first, we can divide the 20th century in three distinct historic periods. A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nati…
The Rise of Professors of Economics and Business Studies in Switzerland
This paper studies the rise of professors of economics and business studies in the second half of the 20th century in Switzerland. It focuses on three types of power resources: positions in the university hierarchy, scientific reputation and extra-academic positions in the economic and political spheres. Based on a biographical database of N = 487 professors, it examines how these resources developed from 1957 to 2000. We find that professors of …
L'espace professionnel infirmier
Résume La profession infirmière connait une rapide croissance des effectifs dans tous les pays occidentaux. Avec la multiplication des secteurs extrahospitaliers, l'académisation des formations et l'instauration de hiérarchies propres, cette croissance s'accompagne d'un processus de différenciation horizontal autant que vertical. Dans un tel contexte, il convient de restituer les enjeux qui traversent la profession en tenant compte de l'ensemble …
Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field
The past decade has been marked by a series of global crises, presenting an opportunity to reevaluate the relationship between science and politics. The biological sciences are instrumental in understanding natural phenomena and informing policy decisions. However, scholars argue that current scientific expertise often fails to account for entire populations and long-term impacts, hindering efforts to address issues such as biodiversity loss, glo…
Fürsorgliche Verstrickung
Fürsorgliche Verstrickung
The Corrosion of Career?-Occupational Trajectories of Business Economists and Engineers in Switzerland
Achievement careers are regarded as a distinctive element of the post-war period in occidental societies. Such a career was at once a modal trajectory of the modern parts of middleclass men and a social emblem for progress and success. However, if the achievement career came to be a biographical pattern with great normative power, its precise sequential course remained vague. Theories of the 1960s and 1970s described it as an orderly advancement …
Aufstiegskarrieren im flexiblen Kapitalismus
Aufstiegskarrieren im flexiblen Kapitalismus
Aufstiegskarrieren Im Flexiblen Kapitalismus
The Division of Labour Among European Couples
Even though egalitarian gender values are increasingly spreading among younger Europeans, division of labour does not always comply with this trend. Traditional theories of familial behaviour struggle to explain the resulting paradoxical simultaneity of egalitarian values and inegalitarian practices. In this article, we propose an approach based on the ideas that (i) practices are the translation of values moderated by specific social structures …
Routes into the British Service Class
Goldthorpe's conception of mobility into the service class relies strongly on biographical explanations. Hence, it is surprising that empirically biographical trajectories are often approached using methodological proxies. Employing a sequence analysis of the work histories of 13,119 members of the National Child Development Study's 1958 cohort, we examine different routes into the service class. It appears that there are two important roads lead…
La fragilité des liens nationaux
Pendant la majeure partie du XXe siècle, la forte cohésion des élites économiques helvétiques s’est appuyée sur leurs interrelations très denses au sein des conseils d’administration, leurs liens étroits avec les champs politique et militaire ainsi que sur leur appartenance à des institutions de socialisation et de légitimation nationales. Au cours des trente dernières années, sous l’effet de la globalisation économique et de la financiarisation,…
Telling a modest story
While the pattern of social mobility in postwar Britain has been extensively studied, revealing considerable upward mobility, much less is known about the subjective dimension to mobility. In this article, we employ a new sample of in-depth interviews with 50-year old men from the National Child Development Study to examine in detail the link between objective mobility patterns and the way the upwardly mobile narrate their life trajectories. In c…
Political and Economic Elites in Switzerland
As a legacy of the early stages of its state building process, Switzerland continues to be characterised by a cohesive elite whose members simultaneously occupy political and economic positions. Whereas sectoral analyses of the economic or political elite are widespread, few researchers have scrutinised the connections between business and politics. Therefore, this paper focuses on the linkages between the economic and political fields. Based on …
The Swiss business elite (1980–2000)
In this paper we analyse the decline of the Swiss corporate network between 1980 and 2000. We address the theoretical and methodological challenge of this transformation by the use of a combination of network analysis and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Based on a sample of top managers of the 110 largest Swiss companies in 1980 and 2000 we show that, beyond an adjustment to structural pressure, an explanation of the decline of the networ…
Catch me if you can
A typical and precarious employment has become an increasingly important issue in the last 30 years. However, atypical employment includes very heterogeneous forms of work and is difficult to capture empirically. In this paper we propose a configurational approach in order to overcome these difficulties. We conceptualise the labour market as a field and investigate the data of the 2004 sweep of the Swiss Household Panel with a multiple correspond…
Cosmopolitan Capital and the Internationalization of the Field of Business Elites
The aim of this contribution is to explore how the recent internationalization and the increasing importance of 'cosmopolitan capital' has impacted on the structure and character of the field of the Swiss business elite. For this purpose we will develop the notion of cosmopolitan capital and comparatively investigate the field of the Swiss business elite in 1980, 2000 and 2010 with multiple correspondence analysis. We can show that in this period…
Advances in Sequence Analysis
Advances in Sequence Analysis
Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle
Resting on a new database on professors of law and economic sciences from Swiss universities in the 20th century, this article accounts for different dynamics of internationalisation of this elite group. Three major conclusions can be drawn from our analyses: first, we can divide the 20th century in three distinct historic periods. A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nati…
De la sociologie de l’innovation à l’imagination sociologique. La théorie des champs à l’épreuve de la profession infirmière
Si l’on suit la perspective de Saussure pour qui le point de vue crée l’objet, la « nouveauté » d’un objet sociologique suppose au moins autant le renouvellement de son approche que la « nouveauté intrinsèque » de celui-ci. Dans cet article, nous privilégions la voie d’un tel renouvellement en mettant à l’épreuve un « vieil objet » par une « approche ancienne ». Nous inscrivant à contre-courant d’une tendance à la parcellisation de la discipline …
Geneva's philanthropists around 1900
This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social and cultural) and were involved in philanthropic activities related to their social status. Together, those philanthropists formed a social field. They were connected to each other and even need…
Braucht es eine Romantik der Bürgerlichkeit, um den gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus zu verstehen? Kommentar zu « Retour vers le futur »
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
New Directions in Elite Studies
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the ‘one percent’ has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research
European top management careers
Research on European business elites has been dominated by a ‘national career model’ approach, arguing that each country has a specific top management career pattern. In recent years, this line of argument has been challenged due to the increasing international circulation of top managers. To examine the impact of internationalisation on career models, we will draw on a database of 916 top managers in Germany, Switzerland, France and Britain. Our…
Mapping the Power of Law Professors
The Rise of Professors of Economics and Business Studies in Switzerland
This paper studies the rise of professors of economics and business studies in the second half of the 20th century in Switzerland. It focuses on three types of power resources: positions in the university hierarchy, scientific reputation and extra-academic positions in the economic and political spheres. Based on a biographical database of N = 487 professors, it examines how these resources developed from 1957 to 2000. We find that professors of …
L'espace professionnel infirmier
Résume La profession infirmière connait une rapide croissance des effectifs dans tous les pays occidentaux. Avec la multiplication des secteurs extrahospitaliers, l'académisation des formations et l'instauration de hiérarchies propres, cette croissance s'accompagne d'un processus de différenciation horizontal autant que vertical. Dans un tel contexte, il convient de restituer les enjeux qui traversent la profession en tenant compte de l'ensemble …
Political science (23 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (12 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (10 obras) · Elite (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Law (7 obras)