Concluding Discussion
This thesis aimed to study whether the socioeconomic background of organizational leaders matters for their management-relevant attitudes. The empirical findings presented in the last chapter provide robust support that the socioeconomic background of org
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Yanick Kemayou
More Class in Management Research The Relationship between Socioeconomic Background and Managerial Attitudes With a Preface by Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider
Yanick Kemayou Paderborn, Germany Dissertation Universität Paderborn, 2015
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Preface Our parents’ income, the education they afford us, the values they teach us and the people we meet as children, in short: our socioeconomic background, influences the way we think and decide as adults. By implication, socioeconomic background will influence the way in which even top managers and other organizational leaders see the world and act accordingly. Perhaps this is a truism. At any rate, management researchers have hitherto not had much to say about the importance of socioeconomic background for managerial decisions and economic outcomes. Topics such as the importance of class for organizations and the reproduction of inequality are usually discussed left of the mainstream, in so-called “critical management studies”. Things have begun to change since the start of the lingering crisis in 2008. Many observers feel that the crisis has dramatically exacerbated preexisting inequalities in income, wealth, and opportunities. Others have identified as the reason for the crisis a widespread misconduct among managers and other command post holders, i.e. among a small, socially closed elite. If on the one hand a failing social elite is at least partly responsible for the most severe economic crisis since 1929, and on the other hand management scholars are silent on the elite members’ social background, then – as some argue
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