The gilded path: capital, habitus and illusio in the fund management field

Purpose The fund management sector plays an important role in society. exists close proximity to the accounting profession and concerns of paper reflect themes discussed by scholars, particularly financialization, inequality life within elite professional service organizations. Design/methodology/approach This is interpretive study field based UK. It on 32 semi-structured interviews with individuals personal experience field, combined reflections from researcher's own as a practitioner field. Findings describes backgrounds motivations entering recruitment processes through which they are admitted, different strategies used gain admission explores habitus successful professionals effects this habitus. Social implications An social implication problematization industry's dislocation broader Originality/value By identifying employed applicants backgrounds, it highlights reflexive agency complicity between agent Recognizing that organized game, suggests so committed game know playing fail realize also drawn into namely absorbing being manager.