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D-Index
46
Citations
28738
World Ranking
3481
National Ranking
1676

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Victor Nee is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and specializes in the social sciences, with a significant focus on sociology and political science. Their work extends into related subfields including safety research, demography, economics and econometrics, and strategy and management.

Their research topics encompass experimental behavioral economics studies, culture, economy, and development studies, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, business strategy and innovation, economic theory and institutions, migration, ethnicity, and economy, as well as entrepreneurship studies and influences.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Victor Nee include:

  • "Cooperation with Strangers: Spillover of Community Norms" (2022), published in Organization Science
  • "Immigration, opportunity, and assimilation in a technology economy" (2020), published in Theory and Society
  • "A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation" (2023), published in Social Science Research
  • "Methods of quantifying specialized knowledge and network rewiring" (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Specialization in the marketplace for ideas" (2023), published in PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors of Victor Nee include:

  • Michael W. Macy
  • Rafael Wittek
  • Tom A. B. Snijders
  • Sirui Wang

Common venues for their publications are:

  • Organization Science
  • Theory and Society
  • Social Science Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PLoS ONE

Victor Nee has contributed to academic books as well, including a publication with Stanford University Press eBooks titled The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research (2020), which has accrued a notable number of citations.

The scientist has been recognized by their peers and awarded fellowships such as the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and the Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

    Richard D. Alba;Victor Nee

  • Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration.

    Richard Alba;Victor Nee

  • A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism

    Victor Nee

  • Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Forms, Property Rights, and Mixed Economy in China

    Victor Nee

  • Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family as Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital

    Jimy M. Sanders;Victor Nee

  • Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy

    Jimy M. Sanders;Victor Nee

  • The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China

    Victor Nee

  • Social Inequalities in Reforming State Socialism: Between Redistribution and Markets in China

    Victor Nee

  • Remaking the American Mainstream

    Richard D. Alba;Victor Nee

  • Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation: a forms-of-capital model

    Victor Nee;Jimy Sanders

  • The new institutionalism in sociology

    Mary C. Brinton;Victor Nee

  • Capitalism from Below

    Victor Nee;Sonja Opper

  • Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China

    Victor Nee;Sonja Opper

  • Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market

    Jimy Sanders;Victor Nee;Scott Sernau

  • Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism

    Victor Nee;Rebecca Matthews

  • Norms and Networks in Economic and Organizational Performance

    Victor Nee

  • Job transitions in an immigrant metropolis : ethnic boundaries and the mixed economy

    V. Nee;S. Sternau;J. P. Sanders

  • Remaking the economic institutions of socialism : China and Eastern Europe

    Victor Nee;David Stark;Mark Selden

  • Comment: Controversies and Evidence in the Market Transition Debate

    Yang Cao;Victor G. Nee

  • Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics Between Immigrants and Natives

    Lucas G. Drouhot;Victor Nee

  • Path dependent societal transformation: Stratification in hybrid mixed economies

    Victor Nee;Yang Cao

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
David Stark
David Stark Columbia University
Tom A. B. Snijders
Tom A. B. Snijders University of Groningen
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University
Andrew G. Walder
Andrew G. Walder Stanford University
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
David Zweig
David Zweig University of Toronto

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