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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Neil Fligstein is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on several key subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

The researcher's work covers a variety of interconnected topics such as Management and Organizational Studies, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Economic Theory and Institutions, Management Theory and Practice, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Political Economy and Marxism, and Accounting and Organizational Management.

Fligstein's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Social Structure and Organizations, 2021, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
  • The Legacy of Shareholder Value Capitalism, 2022, Annual Review of Sociology
  • Innovation and the Theory of Fields, 2021, AMS Review
  • Political Economy after Neoliberalism, 2021, Journal of Economic Sociology
  • A Theory of Fields (Excerpt), 2022, Journal of Economic Sociology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fligstein include Jens Beckert, Adam Goldstein, Caleb Scoville, Steven Vogel, and Marion Fourcade.

Their work has appeared regularly in several publication venues such as the Journal of Economic Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Annual Review of Sociology, and AMS Review.

In addition to journal articles, Fligstein has contributed to book publications, notably with Harvard University Press, including the book titled The Banks Did It published in 2021.

Throughout their career, Fligstein has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies

    Neil Fligstein

  • The transformation of corporate control

    Neil Fligstein

  • A Theory of Fields

    Neil Fligstein;Doug McAdam

  • Markets as Politics: A Political‐Cultural Approach to Market Institutions

    Neil Fligstein

  • Social Skill and the Theory of Fields

    Neil Fligstein

  • Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

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  • Social Skill and Institutional Theory

    Neil Fligstein

  • Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields

    Neil Fligstein;Doug McAdam

  • Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe

    Neil Fligstein

  • The Architecture of Markets

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  • Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions

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  • The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring.

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  • The spread of the multidivisional form among large firms, 1919–1979

    Neil Fligstein

  • How to make a market : reflections on the attempt to create a single market in the European union

    Neil Fligstein;Iona Mara-Drita

  • The institutionalization of Europe

    Alec Stone;Wayne Sandholtz;Neil Fligstein

  • The Intraorganizational Power Struggle: Rise of Finance Personnel to Top Leadership in Large Corporations, 1919-1979

    Neil Fligstein

  • The Impact of Economics on Contemporary Sociology

    James N. Baron;Michael T. Hannan;Neil Fligstein;Robert Frank

  • The Sociology of Markets

    Neil Fligstein;Luke Dauter

  • Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration

    Neil Fligstein;Alec Stone Sweet

  • Patterns of corporatist policy-making

    Gerhard Lehmbruch;Philippe C. Schmitter

  • Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Corporate Organization

    Neil Fligstein;Robert Freeland

  • Sex and authority in the workplace: The causes of sexual inequality

    Wendy C. Wolf;Neil D. Fligstein

  • Bank Control, Owner Control, or Organizational Dynamics: Who Controls the Large Modern Corporation?

    Neil Fligstein;Peter Brantley

  • European Integration, Nationalism, and European Identity

    Neil Fligstein;Alina Polyakova;Wayne Sandholtz

  • Shareholder Value and the Transformation of the U.S. Economy, 1984–2000

    Neil Fligstein;Taekjin Shin

  • Globalization or Europeanization? Evidence on the European Economy Since 1980*

    Neil Fligstein;Frederic Merand

  • Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment.

    Neil Fligstein;Lynne G. Zucker

  • The Transformation of Corporate Control.

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  • The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies

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  • Architecture of Markets

    Neil Fligstein;Ryan Calder

  • Jacques Delors and European Integration.

    Neil Fligstein;George Ross

  • The Emergence of a Finance Culture in American Households

    Neil Fligstein;Adam Goldstein

  • The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies (translated by Alexander Kurakin)

    Neil Fligstein

  • Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European

    Neil Fligstein;Alec Stone Sweet

Frequent Co-Authors

Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Alec Stone Sweet
Alec Stone Sweet University of Hong Kong
Wayne Sandholtz
Wayne Sandholtz University of Southern California
Duncan Gallie
Duncan Gallie University of Oxford
Kathryn M. Neckerman
Kathryn M. Neckerman Columbia University
S. Philip Morgan
S. Philip Morgan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dudley L. Poston
Dudley L. Poston Texas A&M University
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Elaine Howard Ecklund Rice University
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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