by Brooke Harrington | Sep 26, 2022 | Elites & Inequality
2022, Journal of Professions and Organization, 10 (1): 80-98; with Louise Ashley, Mehdi Boussebaa, Sam Friedman, Stefan Heusinkveld, Stefanie Gustafsson & Daniel Muzio. This series of individual essays comprise a discussion forum examining how professions can both...
by Brooke Harrington | Sep 30, 2021 | Elites & Inequality
2021, Sociologica, 15 (2): 143 – 152. What relevance does an early twentieth-century thinker like Simmel have for the contemporary sociology of wealth? This paper suggests that Simmel’s classic work on the secret and secret societies is embedded but...
by Brooke Harrington | Feb 10, 2020 | Elites & Inequality
2020, Annual Review of Sociology, 46: 399 – 417; with Leonard Seabrooke. This review answers recent calls to consider the transformative role of transnational professionals in contemporary globalization. It departs from the dominant perspective, which views...
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...
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...
by Brooke Harrington | Mar 10, 2016 | Elites & Inequality
2017, Socio-Economic Review, 15 (1): 31-63. This article identifies trusts as a legal structure associated with the global spread of financialization. Although trusts originated in Medieval England, they have acquired a new significance in contemporary finance by...
