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The authors explore the nature of access to business leadership opportunities. In particular, they show how select “insiders” possess advantages (based on factors such as birthplace and family background) that facilitate the challenging journey to the top. Meanwhile, “outsiders” on those same dimensions face disadvantages that make their path to leadership positions much more difficult.
Yet throughout the history of American business, the composition of insiders and outsiders has shifted. Examining data on leader birthplaces, nationality, religious affiliation, educational background, socioeconomic status, gender, and race, patbs to power explains how the demographics status, gender, and race, patbs to power explains how the demographics of leadership have changed over the twentieth century- and how they’re changing now. In addition, the authors discuss the mechanisms of advancement for insiders and outsiders and show how these mechanisms, too, have evolved.
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