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The Swiss economic elites in the 20th century

Abstract

In July 2015, Tidjane Thiam became CEO of Credit Switzerland. The appointment of the Franco-Ivorian leader had a huge resonance, a newspaper even talking about “Obama effect”. Such an appointment would have been unthinkable thirty years ago. This book provides, for the first time, a summary of the changes in the sociological profile of economic leaders and their collective organisation in Switzerland in the 20th century. Their strong taste for the discretion and opacity of companies has long hampered any systematic study. There are two separate periods. Until the 1980s, despite the international expansion of major Swiss companies, their control remained firmly in the hands of national elites, whose archaetype was a Swiss man, often linked to the founding family, officer, trained in law or engineering, sitting on numerous boards of directors, member of employers’ organisations and maintaining close ties with the political world. Since the 1990s, the composition and functioning of these elites has changed dramatically. The arrival of new leaders in cosmopolite, in terms of training or career, has diversified the profile of the Swiss elites. This has an impact on the organisation of employers and their reporting to the political authorities.

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