abstract:Sponsored mobility refers to a system of social mobility where elite individuals in society select (either directly or through agents) recruits to induct into high status groups. This norm functions in opposition to contest mobility, in which everyone is seen as having equal opportunity to attain high status.
Analyst Kevin Benedict had a funny quip during a webinar on the future of enterprise mobility hosted by IT Toolbox on Thursday (and sponsored by my parent company, SAP).
Specifically, in remarks at a breakfast meeting co-sponsored by the National Defense University Foundation and the National Defense Industrial Association, Kadish observed that the inherent mobility of naval systems, in concert with ground-based Army systems, makes a lot of sense from a theater or national missile defense perspective.