Pathways to Top Corporate Management

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External Control of Organizations: Resource Dependence Perspective

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The Social System

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Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture

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Men and Women of the Corporation.

1978 • 7,607 citations

The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered.

1968 • 4,944 citations

The Power Elite

1956 • 3,793 citations

Organizations and Environments

1980 • 3,076 citations

The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification.

1981 • 1,766 citations

Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique

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Organizational Demography and Turnover in Top-Management Group

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Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification

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The System of Modern Societies.

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The End of Ideology

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Social Mobility in Industrial Society

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Who Rules America

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The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K, by Michael Useem

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Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States.

1979 • 539 citations

The Social Organization of the American Business Elite and Participation of Corporation Directors in the Governance of American Institutions

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The Interlocking Directorate

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The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America

1965 • 303 citations

The Powers That Be

1979 • 268 citations

Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class.

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The Higher Circles: The Governing Class in America.

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Social Class, Academic Ability, and College "Quality"

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Beyond the Ruling Class

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Big Business Leaders in America.

1956 • 77 citations

The Big Business Executive

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American Business Leaders.

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The Rise of American Boarding Schools and the Development of a National Upper Class

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The Big Business Executive: The Factors That Made Him, 1900-1950.

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Determinants of Economic Attitudes in the American Business Elite

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American Boarding Schools: A Historical Study

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Who gets promoted.

1974 • 21 citations

Privilege and domination: The role of the upper class in American higher education

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Education and Jobs: The Imbalancing of the Social Machinery.

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Class and Status in France: Economic Change and Social Immobility

1979 • 12 citations

Class and prestige origins in the American elite

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U.S. business leaders: A study of opinions and characteristics

1980 • 4 citations

The big business executive, 1964 : a study of his social and educational background

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Who is top management

1982 • 3 citations