Abstract

SERNA, Miguel. The role of educational degree in the recruitment and internationalization of managerial elites in Uruguay: between cultural openness and social closure?. Trab. soc. [online]. 2018, n.31, pp.243-260. ISSN 1514-6871.

What is the role of educational degree the recruitment and trajectories of senior executives of large companies? How does it relate to the strategies of internationalization of business elites?, What specific and common features can be found in business executives of Uruguay in Latin American comparative perspective?

The article aims to analyze the role of educational degree in the recruitment of managerial elites by a sociological perspective. The paper focuses on careers of executives of corporate companies in. Uruguay compared with several Latin American countries in recent decades. The paper presents advances in a study of the educational background of senior executives of the largest companies in Uruguay based on biographical trajectory analysis. It is based on a double interpretation found in the specific literature, on the one hand the increasing incidence of cultural capital and the internationalization of educational degree and competences for management careers. On the other hand, the processes of internationalization of companies and management training do not replace the traditional mechanisms of selection of managerial cadres of companies related to social capital - trust relations at the top - and their local territorial roots.

The analysis of the Uruguayan case suggests that it is a type of managerial elite that combines a plural recruitment in the access with progressive educational and social closure mechanisms which contribute to the social cohesion of the ruling groups.

Keywords : managerial elites; cultural capital; business recruitment.

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