; starting out from a theory of class indebted to the late Pierre Bourdieu, draws on a qualitative research project examining the …

of capital. Design/methodology/approach This ethnographic study uses a Bourdieusian approach to investigate the …. These practices lead to outcomes that can be identified as economic, social and cultural capital. Pin or merit emerges as an … important outcome of practices which is not easily accommodated by the concept of outcome, nor by Bourdieu’s categories of …

/methodology/approach Adopting a relational perspective based on Bourdieu and Wacquant’s (1992) Reflexive Sociology , as well as an inductive design … occur. Originality/value Studies on transnational entrepreneurship have already adopted Bourdieu’s theory (1977/1986), but …

legitimacy and democracy in order to identify which aspects of democratic legitimacy of global economic governance can be …

provided by the chain of legitimation is complemented by a layer of legitimacy that is provided by political practices at the … transnational level, democratic legitimacy can only emerge if the long and abstract legitimation chains are normatively backed by …The idea of a "chain of legitimation" is a central thought in German constitutional theory. However, the conception of …