Majsa Grosen

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.