THE IMPACT OF EXOGENOUS FACTORS ON BUSINESS ELITE’S FORMATION: COMPARING SOCIETIES
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https://doi.org/10.37886/Ključne besede:
business elites, Slovenia, state building, institutions, modernization, transition, social capital, cultural capital, economic capitalPovzetek
Country’s historical heritage, represented by social, political and economical factors, merely define society’s cultural base, which further define its potentials within all its spheres. In the article we focused on a specific phenomenon i.e. business elites, which we understand as crucial stakeholders for society’s development. Socio-cultural and socio-economic factors on the macro level (i.e. society as a whole) shape a specific environment, which facilitate or hinder the emergence of a specific business elite’s type. These components affect business elite’s cultural profile and define whether they act as promoters of development or as reent-seekers. In order to highliht the idea of the research and the results, we compared macro components within different societies, characterized by different paradigmatic models (i.e. Switzerland, the USA, the EU-3, Slovenia, the Ukraine and BRIC countries). The study revield how socio-cultural and socio-economic factors affect society’s development (toward a free market economy or toward socialistic type of society) which further define the type of business elite that emerges in a specific society.
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