Research

Victor Nee's current interests are focused on studies in economic sociology, new institutional analysis, stratification/inequality, and immigration/race:

1). In economic sociology, he is working on a multi-year study of the emergence of market economy and institutional change in China; a theory of innovation; a cross-national study of bureaucracy and development of financial markets.

2). On institutional analysis, Nee is interested in deepening his work on understanding the relationship between formal and informal processes in institutional settings.

Publications

Recent Books

On Capitalism, Co-editor and contributor with Richard Swedberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)

The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. Co-editor and contributor with Richard Swedberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and the New Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

The New Institutionalism in Sociology, coeditor and contributor with Mary Brinton (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).

Selected Articles and Chapters

“On Politicized Capitalism” (with Sonja Opper) in On Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

“Developmental State and Corporate Governance in China” (with Sonja Opper and Sonia Wong). Management and Organization Review 3 (2007): 19-51.

“The New Institutionalism in Economics and Sociology.” In The Handbook of Economic Sociology (2nd ed.) edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

“Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China.” Pp. 53-74 In The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

“Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China” (with Yang Cao) Management and Organizations Review 1,1 (2004): 23-56.

"The Role of the State in Making a Market Economy." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 156 (2000): 64-88.

"Path Dependent Societal Transformation: Stratification in Mixed Economies." (with Yang Cao) Theory and Society 28 (1999): 799-834.

"Norms and Networks in Economic and Organizational Performance." American Economic Review Vol. 87 (1998), No. 4, pp. 85-89.

"Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange and Social Structure." (with Paul Ingram). Pp. 19-45 in The New Institutionalism in Sociology, edited by M. Brinton and V. Nee (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).

"Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family as Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital" (with Jimy Sanders), American Sociological Review 60 (1996):231-250.

"Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism." (with Rebecca Matthews), Annual Review of Sociology vol. 22 (1996): 401-36.

The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China. American Journal of Sociology 100 (1996): 908-949.

"Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and Mixed Economy." (with Jimy M. Sanders and Scott Sernau), American Sociological Review 59 (1994): 849-872.

"Sleeping with the Enemy: A Dynamic Model of Declining Political Commitment in State Socialism." (with Peng Lian) Theory and Society 23 (1994): 253- 296.

"Social Inequalities in Reforming State Socialism: Between Redistribution and Markets in China." American Sociological Review 56 (1991): 267-282.

"A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism." American Sociological Review 54 (1989): 663-681.