Between Kinship and Commerce: Fiduciaries and the Institutional Logics of Family Firms

by Brooke Harrington | Apr 23, 2018 | Elites & Inequality

2018, Family Business Review, 31 (4): 417-440; with Vanessa Strike. In this study we explore how the institutions of kinship and commerce are integrated within family businesses. Previous research shows that family firms’ characteristic synthesis of institutional...

Habitus and the Labor of Representation Among Elite Professionals

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2017 | Elites & Inequality

2017, Journal of Professions and Organization, 4: 282-301. This paper reports findings from an 8-year study of the embodiment, acquisition, and consequences of habitus in the wealth management profession. The study contributes in three ways to the ongoing effort to...

Studying Elite Professionals in Transnational Settings

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2017 | Methodology

2017, Pp. 39-49 in Professional Networks in Transnational Governance, Leonard Seabrooke and Lasse Folke Henriksen (Eds.), Cambridge University Press. Reflections on the special challenges of studying professionals when conducting ethnographies of elites.

Fraud and Fantasy: Toward a New Research Agenda for Economic Sociology

by Brooke Harrington | Mar 23, 2017 | Financial Fraud

2017, Socio-Economic Review, 15 (1): 249-255. This brief article looks at the role of deception and fraud in capitalism–a neglected issue within economic sociology–and suggests a research agenda to build knowledge in this area.

 Yes, Trump’s Cabinet Is Super-Rich. That’s Not Why We Should Be Worried

by Brooke Harrington | Jan 19, 2017 | Elites & Oligarchs

2017, Washington Post In 2017, incoming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet was comprised of the ultra-rich, their collective wealth dwarfing that of any other in American history. While money and privilege have been more the rule than the exception in US politics, from...