Fantastic, congrats Johannes!

Thanks Crawford!

For the real nerds, I also did an entire conventional sequence analysis + optimal matching clustering of these career trajectories because a reviewer asked for methodological comparison. Available through the supplementary data: academic.oup.com/jpo/article/...

Overall, the paper innovates with a new field-wide view at how elite corporate professionals rise to the top. Field-specifics matter - regulatory capital is very important in tax (for good and bad) - but the ideal-types work elsewhere: chefs, influencers, consultants, etc.

Shares/comments welcome!

I find a lot of the well-known fidelity ("organization man"/"Cravath system") and conversion ("advisor-turned-corporate executive") among elite tax careers, but also chunks of regulatory capital ("revolving doors"), and big variation in general, with strong path dependence (early moves steer).

Empirically, I map careers in global corporate tax with novel data and methods. I extend and generalize an organizational status measure based on personnel flows across employers. This lets me study careers without assuming organizational prestige, though some usual suspects (Big Four) at the top.

Drawing from John Levi Martin and others, I study *organizational careers*, tracing status through moves within and across employers (hierarchical and organizational status).

This lens yields three ideal-type trajectories to the top, which I call "fidelity", "conversion", and "regulatory capital".

Oh we’re still playing that the US is our best and favourite and closest ally. Parliament just voted to ratify more US troops (and their immunity) on our soil!

Despite years of painstaking exercise, my speed of comprehending OECDspeak remains absurdly slow

Chewing through the immense technical detail here, but if you are wondering how to interpret the notion of a "qualified side-by-side regime", the list of such systems is already in the OECD's records, and it only counts one jurisdiction:

I just wrapped up Tim Wu's new "The Age of Extraction", which gets at a similar point about the contemporary platform economy early on. Parts I and II are especially good as socio-economic diagnosis (the later policy prescriptions are well-trodden territory for familiar Wu readers).

In forthcoming work (with Salomé Dugué), we show similar constraints in sustainability reporting, an area equally thought easily commensurable with Big Four expertise and logics, but which continues to show strong signs of resistance to the adaptations of traditional audit and accounting firms.