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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Neil Fligstein is an American sociologist and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work in economic sociology, political sociology, and organizational theory. He has produced both empirical and theoretical works.

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FROM THE TRANSFORMATION OF CORPORATE CONTROL (2021) (1905)
Markets as Politics: A Political‐Cultural Approach to Market Institutions (1996) (1509)
The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies (2001) (1404)
Social Skill and the Theory of Fields* (2001) (1299)
Social Skill and Institutional Theory (1997) (1126)
A Theory of Fields (2012) (1083)
Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields* (2010) (957)
The spread of the multidivisional form among large firms, 1919–1979 (1985) (707)
The Architecture of Markets (2015) (549)
The Sociology of Markets (2007) (547)
Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe (2008) (525)
How to Make a Market: Reflections on the Attempt to Create a Single Market in the European Union (1996) (405)
Jacques Delors and European Integration. (1994) (396)
The Institutionalization of Europe (2001) (354)
The Intraorganizational Power Struggle: Rise of Finance Personnel to Top Leadership in Large Corporations, 1919-1979 (1987) (348)
Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration1 (2002) (311)
Bank Control, Owner Control, or Organizational Dynamics: Who Controls the Large Modern Corporation? (1992) (245)
Sex and authority in the workplace: The causes of sexual inequality (1978) (226)
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Corporate Organization (1995) (223)
Shareholder Value and the Transformation of the U.S. Economy, 1984–2000 (2007) (215)
European Integration, Nationalism and European Identity (2012) (201)
The Emergence of a Finance Culture in American Households, 1989-2007 (2015) (176)
Pattern in Corporate Evolution. (1997) (128)
Globalization or Europeanization? Evidence on the European Economy Since 1980 (2000) (117)
The Anatomy of the Mortgage Securitization Crisis (2010) (111)
Defrocking dualism: A new approach to defining industrial sectors (1981) (99)
A New Agenda for Research on the Trajectory of Chinese Capitalism (2011) (97)
The Institutionalization of European Space (2001) (93)
Seeing Like the Fed: Culture, Cognition, and Framing in the Failure to Anticipate the Financial Crisis of 2008 (2017) (91)
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. (1993) (88)
Going North: Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South, 1900-1950 (1981) (88)
:From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (2009) (87)
Fields, Power and Social Skill: a Critical Analysis of the New Institutionalisms (1999) (85)
LAW AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (2005) (84)
Is European integration causing Europe to become more nationalist? Evidence from the 2007–9 financial crisis (2016) (83)
INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURS AND CULTURAL FRAMES - The case of the European Union's Single Market Program (2001) (82)
Understanding stability and change in fields (2013) (81)
Sexual Stratification: Differences in Power in the Work Setting (1979) (80)
Who are the Europeans and how does this matter for politics (2007) (76)
The shareholder value society: A review of the changes in working conditions and inequality in the United States, 1976 to 2000 (2004) (65)
The Economic Sociology of the Transitions from Socialism (1996) (65)
Financial Reorganization of American Corporations in the 1980s (1993) (59)
The Causes of Fraud in the Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009 (2016) (59)
Institutionalizing the Treaty of Rome (2001) (52)
Why the Federal Reserve Failed to See the Financial Crisis of 2008: The Role of "Macroeconomics" as Sense-Making and Cultural Frame (2014) (51)
The politics of quantification (1998) (51)
The institutional terrain of the European Union (1997) (50)
Varieties of Sociological Field Theory (2016) (45)
Oppression: A Socio-History of Black-White Relations in America (1984) (44)
The Capitalist Firm in the 21st Century: Emerging Patterns (2000) (43)
The shareholder value society: A review of the changes in working conditions and inequality in the U.S., 1976-2000 - eScholarship (2003) (42)
Sex similarities in occupational status attainment: Are the results due to the restriction of the sample to employed women? (1978) (42)
Educational Transitions of Whites and Mexican Americans. (1982) (40)
9. The Political and Economic Sociology of International Economic Arrangements (2010) (39)
Framing Europe: Attitudes to European Integration in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom (2005) (39)
Sucker Punched by the Invisible Hand: the World Financial Markets and the Globalization of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis* (2014) (36)
The End of (Shareholder Value) Ideology (2004) (33)
Structural Change in Corporate Organization (1989) (33)
Catalyst of Disaster: Subprime Mortgage Securitization and the Roots of the Great Recession (2011) (32)
Le mythe du marché (2001) (32)
Networks of power or the finance corporation of control? Comment on Palmer, Barber, Zhou, and Soysal (1995) (31)
Financial markets as production markets: the industrial roots of the mortgage meltdown (2017) (31)
Is Globalization the Cause of the Crises of Welfare States (1999) (30)
A Political–Cultural Approach to the Problem of Strategic Action (2012) (29)
Sense Making and the Emergence of a New Form of Market Governance (2006) (27)
Constructing Markets and Polities: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration (2010) (25)
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1984-2001 (2004) (22)
Rhétorique et réalités de la «mondialisation» (1997) (22)
Who Served in the Military, 1940-73 (1980) (19)
WELL-BEING IN AMERICA: The Shareholder-Value Society (2003) (19)
Keeping up with the Joneses: How Households Fared in the Era of High Income Inequality and the Housing Price Bubble, 1999–2007 (2017) (18)
Markets, politics, and globalization (1997) (17)
Myths of the market (2003) (17)
Toward a Theory of Income Determination (1983) (16)
Globalization or Europeanization (2005) (16)
A Long Strange Trip: The State And Mortgage Securitization, 1968–2010 (2012) (15)
Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations (2008) (15)
Shareholder Value and Changes in American Industries, 1984-2000* (2005) (14)
The Frenzy of Fields: An Interview with Neil Fligstein on Field-Theory and Social Skill (2014) (14)
"How to make a market: reflections on the attempt to create a single unitary market in the European Community" (1993) (13)
What is European Society (2009) (12)
Shareholder Value and Changes in American Industries (2005) (11)
The Theory of Fields and Its Application to Corporate Governance (2016) (10)
States, social movements and markets† (2019) (10)
States, Markets, and Economic Growth (2020) (10)
The Field of Theory (2014) (9)
Toward a Theory of Strategic Action Fields (2012) (9)
The Transformation of Mortgage Finance and the Industrial Roots of the Mortgage Meltdown (2012) (8)
Sucker Punched by the Invisible Hand (2012) (8)
Politics, the Reorganization of the Economy, and Income Inequality, 1980—2009 (2010) (8)
A SOCIOLOGIA DOS MERCADOS (2012) (7)
Work in the Postindustrial Economy of California (2002) (7)
Overwork : Causes and consequences of rising work hours (2001) (7)
Shareholder Value and the Transformation of American Industries , 1984 -2001 * (2007) (7)
Theory and Methods for the Study of Strategic Action Fields (2008) (7)
Military service, the draft, and the G.I. Bill : their effects on the lives of American males, 1940-1973 (1976) (6)
All the Incentives Were Wrong: Opportunism and the Financial Crisis* (2013) (6)
The New Spirit of Capitalism (2006) (6)
The process of europeanization (2000) (6)
Response to Goldstone and Useem (2012) (6)
The Rich Got Richer: The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Household Well-Being, 2007–2009 (2016) (6)
Mark S. Mizruchi: The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite (2014) (5)
What Kind of Re-Imagining Does Economic Sociology Need? (2015) (5)
Political Economy after Neoliberalism (2021) (5)
Response to Bridges and Miller (1981) (5)
Neil Fligstein answers questions on the present financial crisis (2009) (4)
The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. By Christopher D. McKenna. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-81039-6 (2007) (4)
Two Books on the Recent Financial Crisis: Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America: Gerald F. Davis; The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms: Henry Kaufman. (2010) (4)
Government and Markets: Lessons from Europe: Some Reflections on the European Union and the Regulation of Business (2009) (4)
Markets and Firms (2011) (4)
The 1992 Single Market Program and the Interests of Business (1995) (4)
The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis (2021) (4)
Chapter 9 – Net Migration of Blacks and Whites, 1900–1950 (1981) (4)
Organizations: Theoretical Debates and the Scope of Organizational Theory (2021) (4)
The Sociology of Picketty’s Capital (2014) (3)
The Impact of the Censoring Problem on Estimating Women's Occupational Attainment Equations. Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers. (1976) (3)
The Cultural Construction of Political Action: The Case of the European Community's Single Market Program. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 04.3, December 1993 (1993) (3)
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE ORGANIZATION (1995) (3)
7. The Rise of the Shareholder Value Conception of the Firm and the Merger Movement in the 1980s (2001) (3)
Going North. Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South 1900-1950.@@@Regional Diversity. Growth in the United States, 1960-1990.@@@Population Deconcentration in the United States. (1982) (3)
Recht und Corporate Governance (2006) (2)
The evolving role of organizational theory within economic sociology (2020) (2)
Alternative approaches to firm strategic behavior (2000) (2)
Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment. (1989) (2)
How the upper and middle classes embraced a culture of household debt and aggressive financial risk taking (2015) (2)
Reevaluating the uses of status: The case of earnings determination (1984) (2)
How the American Financial Meltdown of 2008 Caused the Global Financial Crisis (2017) (2)
A field-theoretic approach to the transformation of subprime lending, 1993-2008 (2012) (2)
The Transformation of Southern Agriculture and the Migration of Blacks and Whites, 1930–1940 1 (1983) (2)
The Promise of Field Theory for the Study of Political Institutions (2020) (2)
Managing in the Corporate Interest.Vicki Smith (1991) (2)
Innovation and the theory of fields (2021) (2)
Managers vs. Owners: The Struggle for Corporate Control in American Democracy.Allen Kaufman , Lawrence Zacharias , Marvin Karsan (1996) (2)
The 2001-2002 California Workforce Survey: Background, Methods, and Sample (2002) (2)
Mondialisation ou européanisation (2005) (2)
Alfred Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations (2008) (1)
Change and Stability in Strategic Action Fields (2012) (1)
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. By Donald MacKenzie. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. 408. $40.00. (2007) (1)
Response to Gil Eyal (2010) (1)
Response to Kenneth Zimmerman (2010) (1)
Going North: Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South, 1900-1950.@@@The Population of the South: Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context. (1982) (1)
The Creation of Markets: The Cases of the Defense, Telecommunications, and Football Industries (2009) (1)
The Anatomy of the Mortgage Securitization Crisis - eScholarship (2010) (1)
The Rise and Fall of the Nonconventional Mortgage Industry (2010) (1)
The Banks Did It (2011) (1)
The Twenty‐First Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective. Edited by Paul DiMaggio. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. 1+278. $35.00. (2002) (1)
Militarism, not service (1981) (1)
Book Review:Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1991) (1)
Who Are the Europeans (2009) (1)
The Economic Transformation of Europe (2009) (1)
Agriculture in the South, 1865–1900 (1981) (0)
1 All the Incentives Were Wrong : Opportunism and the Financial Crisis * (2013) (0)
Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William G. Roy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Notes, tables, references, and index. 360 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 069104353; Paper, $18.95, ISBN 069101034X (2000) (0)
Book Review (1998) (0)
The Institutionalization of the Treaty of Rome (2000) (0)
Il Mulino-Rivisteweb (2017) (0)
The Gist of It (2012) (0)
A Theory of Fields (Excerpt) (2022) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
The Power of Unofficial Expectations: Shareholder Value Management Strategies and Long Work Hours in California (2004) (0)
Will Labor Unions Make a Comeback? (2022) (0)
Comment: the EU and European identity (2019) (0)
Toward a Truly Sociological Analysis of Economic Organization@@@The Transformation of Corporate Control. (1991) (0)
Why the Federal Reserve Missed the Financial Crisis: The Role of Sensemaking and Cultural Frames (2014) (0)
who emerged following the discipline ’ s revival in the 80 ’ s and the pioneering work of (2019) (0)
The Market Experience.Robert E. Lane (1993) (0)
Law and Corporate Governance - eScholarship (2005) (0)
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China. By Victor Nee and Sonja Opper. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xviii+431. $45.00. (2013) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
Chapter 8 – Models of the Migration Process, 1930–1950 (1981) (0)
Chapter 10 – Conclusions and Reflections (1981) (0)
Featured Speaker Joshua Cohen (University of California, Berkeley) - (Un)Stable Work in Chinese Manufacturing (2016) (0)
Transformation of Southern Agriculture and the Creation of a Surplus Farm Population (1981) (0)
Chapitre 6 / Les politiques des télécommunications (2010) (0)
New from the American Sociological Association and The New Yorker's Cartoon Bank . . . . The Sociologist's Book of Cartoons (2008) (0)
The Dynamics of European Society (2009) (0)
Comment: the EU and European identity (2019) (0)
Chapitre 7. Valeur actionnariale et transformations des industries américaines (1984-2000) (2008) (0)
Constructing Markets and Politics: The Formation of the European Union, 1958–2004 (2009) (0)
Chapter 6 – Models of the Migration Process, 1900–1930 (1981) (0)
Publishing in Modern Times (2019) (0)
Chapter 4 – Patterns of Net Migration and Changes in Social Organization (1981) (0)
Rakesh Khurana. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. viii, 531. $35.00 (2009) (0)
Competition, stability, and conceptions of control (2000) (0)
Nuevos paradigmas en sociología de las organizaciones@@@The Transformation of Corporate Control@@@Organizational Ecology (1991) (0)
The Underdevelopment of the South: State and Agriculture, 1865–1900 (2019) (0)
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. By Charles Perrow. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. xi + 259 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-691-08954-X (2003) (0)
The Population of the South: Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context.Dudley Poston, Jr. , Robert H. Weller (1983) (0)
Evidence on the European Economy Since 1980 (1999) (0)
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. By Avner Greif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii+502. (2007) (0)
Featured Speaker Ananya Roy (UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs) - Dispossessive Collectivism: Property, Personhood, and Politics at City's End (2016) (0)
Interview with Professor Neil Fligstein: «Researchers Have Got Interested in Origination of Markets» (2010) (0)
The Structure of European Politics (2009) (0)
Migration of Blacks and Whites: An Overview (1981) (0)
Going North: Migration of Blacks from the South, 1900-1950. (1983) (0)
Illustrating the Perspective (2012) (0)
The South Stumbles Along, 1900–1930 (1981) (0)
Book Review: Labor Migration Under Capitalism: the Puerto Rican Experience (1980) (0)
Chapter 3 – The Causes of Black and White Migration (1981) (0)
The Twenty‐First Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective , edited by Paul DiMaggio:The Twenty‐First Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective (2002) (0)
Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, and Simon Bunel. The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (2022) (0)
Statistic for Vanishing Tetrads . (1998) (0)
Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization.Michael Useem (1994) (0)
SASE Awards Ceremony (2016) (0)

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