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Majsa Grosen

Postdoc

Emner
Netværk Sociale medier Virksomheder Erhvervsliv Sociologi Danmark

Primary research areas

Cor­por­ate Elites
My re­search iden­ti­fies and de­scribes the evol­u­tion of the Dan­ish cor­por­ate elite, i.e. the largest Dan­ish com­pan­ies, over the past fifty years thereby con­trib­ut­ing to re­search on the evol­u­tion of the Dan­ish polit­ic­al eco­nomy.
Cor­por­ate In­ner Circle Net­work
My re­search traces the evol­u­tion of the Dan­ish cor­por­ate elite’s net­work over the past fifty years to ad­vance know­ledge on cor­por­ate net­work evol­u­tion and the concept of the cor­por­ate “in­ner circle”.
Quant­it­at­ive Meth­ods
I of­ten work with ex­plor­at­ory quant­it­at­ive meth­ods such as net­work ana­lys­is, mul­tiple cor­res­pond­ence ana­lys­is, se­quence ana­lys­is, or quant­it­at­ive text ana­lys­is.
So­cial Me­dia
I am in­ter­ested in how so­cial me­dia has altered news con­sump­tion along­side know­ledge pro­duc­tion.

I un­cov­er how eco­nom­ic elites shape demo­cracy

I am interested in the historical development of corporate elites and how corporate elites use social networks strategically to seek political influence. 

My current research investigates the development of the Danish big business segment over the past fifty years. I show an increasing economic concentration among the largest firms in Denmark, and that ownership of the largest Danish corporations has concentrated in the hands of an increasingly concentrated wealth elite.  Examining how the Danish corporate elite network has developed over the past fifty years, I show that economic power accumulated in this network has stayed intact, in spite of the corporate elite network's decreasing size. As economic resources consolidate in fewer hands, so does the network of those whose decisions count. 

As my research sheds light on how the global development of increasing economic consolidation and wealth inequality is also reflected in an egalitarian society like Denmark, I wish to contribute to the societal debate on economic power and the rising inequality. 

Recent research projects

Clone - Con­sequences of Long-term Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al Em­bed­ded­ness

As so­ci­ety changes, large cor­por­a­tions have to ad­apt stra­tegic­ally. In this con­text, the net­works of man­agers con­sti­tute a key re­source as a source of in­form­a­tion and to­wards build­ing al­li­ances. Our know­ledge of how dif­fer­ent types of net­work em­bed­ded­ness af­fect the stra­tegic op­por­tun­it­ies of firms across dif­fer­ent his­tor­ic­al peri­ods is how­ever still lim­ited. This in­cludes wheth­er cor­por­ate net­works can ex­plain why some cor­por­a­tions stag­nate, where­as oth­ers man­age to right the ship. And how net­works of cor­por­a­tions af­fect stra­tegic choices re­gard­ing mer­gers and ac­quis­i­tions. The CLONE pro­ject ex­plores how em­bed­ded­ness in his­tor­ic­al net­works af­fects the stra­tegic de­cisions made by large cor­por­a­tions between 1910-2020. This is stud­ied by cre­at­ing a unique data­base, com­bin­ing his­tor­ic­al data on ac­counts and net­works. By do­ing this, the pro­ject ex­tends the un­der­stand­ing of how cor­por­a­tions learn from and find al­li­ances through net­works