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 and investigate the careers of 16,500 top executives by linking these data to the BoardEx database. We find three types of career hubs: global audit and consulting firms, financial firms participating in a transatlantic banking alliance and large US consumer goods conglomerates – and highlight the mechanisms through which they shape the spatial structures of finance led capitalism. In the conclusion, we consider the implication of our results for the literature on corporate networks and propose a series of future research avenues in the career hub perspective.

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职业中心如何塑造全球企业精英

在这篇文章中，我们引入了“职业中心”作为连锁董事会的替代方案，并建议用这一新概念来研究跨国企业精英网络。职业中心是最常见的职业组织，它强调知识经纪，使我们能够研究更多种类的组织，以了解精英网络的形式和传播。我们以 2018 年福布斯 2000 强榜单上的 1366 家公司为样本，通过将这些数据链接到 BoardEx 数据库来调查 16,500 名高管的职业生涯。我们发现了三种类型的职业中心：全球审计和咨询公司、参与跨大西洋银行联盟的金融公司以及美国大型消费品集团，并强调了它们塑造金融主导的资本主义空间结构的机制。在结论中，我们考虑了我们的结果对企业网络文献的影响，并从职业中心的角度提出了一系列未来的研究途径。