Víctor Nee | Academic Influence

Víctor Nee's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Víctor Nee

Sociology

#1006

World Rank

#1159

Historical Rank

sociology Degrees

Download Badge

Sociology

Víctor Nee's Degrees

Bachelors Sociology National Taiwan University

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Sociology 2025

Why Is Víctor Nee Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Victor G. Nee is an American sociologist and professor at Cornell University, known for his work in economic sociology, inequality and immigration. He published a book with Richard Alba entitled Remaking the American Mainstream proposing a neo-assimilation theory to explain the assimilation of post-1965 immigrant minorities and the second generation. In 2012, he published Capitalism from Below co-authored with Sonja Opper examining the rise of economic institutions of capitalism in China. Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York , and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences . He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics by Lund University in Sweden in 2013.

(See a Problem?)

Víctor Nee's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (2003) (2725)
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration 1 (1997) (2075)
Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Forms, Property Rights, and Mixed Economy in China (1992) (1099)
Immigrant self-employment: the family as social capital and the value of human capital. (1996) (908)
A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism (1989) (886)
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy (1987) (617)
The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China (1996) (484)
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation: a forms-of-capital model (2001) (345)
Social Inequalities in Reforming State Socialism: Between Redistribution and Markets in China (1991) (333)
The new institutionalism in sociology (1999) (312)
Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market (2002) (297)
Norms and Networks in Economic and Organizational Performance (1998) (240)
Job transitions in an immigrant metropolis : ethnic boundaries and the mixed economy (1994) (229)
Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism (1996) (199)
Capitalism from Below (2012) (198)
State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government. (1990) (195)
Developmental State and Corporate Governance in China (2007) (185)
Comment: Controversies and Evidence in the Market Transition Debate (2000) (160)
Political Capital in a Market Economy (2010) (145)
Entrepreneurs Under Uncertainty: An Economic Experiment in China (2013) (140)
Path dependent societal transformation: Stratification in hybrid mixed economies (1999) (129)
Longtime Californ: A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown (1973) (123)
3. The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology (2010) (123)
Remaking the economic institutions of socialism : China and Eastern Europe (1989) (122)
The Road to Parity: Determinants of the Socioeconomic Achievements of Asian Americans (1985) (115)
Risk Aversion and Guanxi Activities: A Behavioral Analysis of CEOs in China (2017) (111)
The Role of the State in Making a Market Economy (2000) (104)
Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China (2005) (98)
Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics Between Immigrants and Natives (2019) (91)
Problems in Resolving the Enclave Economy Debate (1992) (85)
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth in Rural China (2000) (84)
Sleeping with the enemy: A dynamic model of declining political commitment in state socialism (1994) (82)
The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research (2013) (80)
Homophily in the career mobility of China's political elite. (2015) (70)
On Politicized Capitalism (2007) (68)
Peasant Entrepreneurs in China's "Second Economy": An Institutional Analysis (1991) (65)
Institutional Change and Economic Growth in China: The View from the Villages (1990) (62)
Processes of the World-System. (1984) (56)
Institutional Embeddedness in Japanese Labor Markets (1998) (51)
Economic Sociology and New Institutional Economics (2005) (49)
Victor Nee and Sonja Opper, Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China , (2012) (43)
Endogenous dynamics of institutional change (2017) (41)
Networks versus Performance : Political Leadership Promotion in China (2015) (40)
Learning to Trust: From Relational Exchange to Generalized Trust in China (2018) (37)
Postsocialist inequalities: The causes of continuity and discontinuity (2002) (37)
Asian American Socioeconomic Achievement (1985) (37)
State and Society in Contemporary China (1983) (36)
The Emergence and Diffusion of Institutional Forms (1998) (31)
Bureaucracy and Financial Markets (2009) (31)
Remaking Inequality: Institutional Change and Income Stratification in Urban China (2005) (29)
THE RATIONAL PEASANT IN CHINA (2001) (29)
Institutional Foundations of Robust Economic Performance: Public-Sector Industrial Growth in China (1998) (27)
NEW INSTITUTIONALISM, ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL (2003) (26)
Network effects, cooperation and entrepreneurial innovation in China (2015) (24)
China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present (1975) (23)
Why Asian Americans are Becoming Mainstream (2013) (23)
The Cultural Revolution at Peking University. (1970) (20)
Guests in the Dragon: Social Demography of a Chinese District, 1985-1946. (1984) (20)
Entrepreneurs under Uncertainty: An Economic Experiment (2012) (18)
The Peasant Household Economy and Decollectivization in China (1986) (17)
Strategic decisions: behavioral differences between CEOs and others (2020) (16)
A Theory of Innovation: Market Transition, Property Rights, and Innovative Activity (2010) (16)
Peasant Household Individualism (1984) (13)
The Entrepreneur's Network and Firm Performance (2017) (13)
Bottom-Up Economic Development and the Role of the State: A Focus on China (2010) (13)
Political Connections in a Market Economy (2007) (12)
POLITICIZED CAPITALISM: DEVELOPMENTAL STATE AND THE FIRM IN CHINA (2004) (11)
2. Assimilation Theory, Old and New (2003) (10)
Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. By Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv+406. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). (2003) (8)
8. Political Economy and Religion in the Spirit of Max Weber (2007) (8)
Introduction: Rational Choice Social Research (2020) (7)
Emergence of diverse and specialized knowledge in a metropolitan tech cluster. (2020) (6)
Post-Mao changes in a South China production brigade (1981) (5)
The Economic Transformation of South China: Reform and Development in the Post-Mao Era (2010) (5)
Endogenous Institutional Change and Dynamic Capitalism (2010) (5)
Markets and Institutional Change in China (2014) (5)
Middle-Range Theories of Institutional Change (2018) (4)
Social exchange and political process in Maoist China (1991) (3)
Immigration in the Balance (2004) (2)
Entrepreneurial Action: Market Transition, Property Rights, and Innovation (2010) (2)
4. Was Assimilation Contingent on Specific Historical Conditions (2003) (2)
Cooperation with Strangers: Spillover of Community Norms (2022) (2)
Immigration, opportunity, and assimilation in a technology economy (2020) (2)
Appendix 2. List of Interviewees (2012) (1)
Endogenous Institutional Change (2013) (1)
CHINA'S POLITICIZED CAPITALISM (2006) (1)
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. By Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. New York and Cambridge: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. x+420. $45.00 (2009) (1)
Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: (2020) (1)
Book Review (1997) (1)
Trouble in Paradise: The Youth Labor Market and School-Work Institutions in Japan’s Economy (2005) (1)
5. The Background to Contemporary Immigration (2003) (1)
Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawaii.Clarence Glick (1984) (1)
Sociology and the New Institutionalism (2015) (1)
Social Exchange and Generalized Trust in China (2014) (1)
Relational Exchange and Generalized Trust in China (2016) (0)
China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution . By Sulamith Heins Potter and Jack M. Potter. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 358 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). (1991) (0)
China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present. (1977) (0)
existence, based on personally conducted fieldwork in seven provinces of China's Yangzi Delta region, the hotbed of Chinese entrepreneurship. The authors, with backgrounds in sociology and economics respectively, present a nuanced narrative that is concerned with the mechanisms (2014) (0)
Tech Entrepreneurs and Diversity in the Knowledge Economy (2019) (0)
2. Markets and Endogenous Institutional Change (2012) (0)
8. Institutions of Innovation (2012) (0)
The road to parity: determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans * (2018) (0)
A Theory of Innovation: Property Rights and Markets (2007) (0)
Interview with Victor Nee: “Sociologists Always Want to Reinvent the Conceptual Map and to Come up with the New Conceptual Scheme that Identifies Something as Important” (Part 1) (2014) (0)
1. Where Do Economic Institutions Come From (2012) (0)
State Bureaucratic Performance and the Corporation: An Agency Cost Analysis of Corporate Governance (2006) (0)
3. The Epicenter of Bottom-Up Capitalism (2012) (0)
State and Society in Contemporary China.@@@The Limits of Reform in China. (1984) (0)
An Assessment of Chinese Socialist Urbanism@@@Urban Life in Contemporary China. (1985) (0)
Immigration, opportunity, and assimilation in a technology economy (2020) (0)
Lawrence Peter King, The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia (2002) (0)
Retracted: Middle-Range Theories of Institutional Change (2018) (0)
APPENDIX 1. Firm Surveys (2012) (0)
State Bureaucratic Performance and the Corporation (2006) (0)
Towards a social anthropology of the Chinese revolution (1979) (0)
The Economic Sociology of Innovation in China's Market Economy (2010) (0)
INTRODUCTION (2020) (0)
Response to Reviews of Remaking the American Mainstream (2004) (0)
6. Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation (2003) (0)
1. Rethinking Assimilation (2003) (0)
4. On Politicized Capitalism (2007) (0)
State Socialism in Transition@@@Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism: China and Eastern Europe. (1990) (0)
MARKETS FOR INNOVATION IN CHINA (2009) (0)
7. The Development of Labor Markets (2012) (0)
Network effects, cooperation and entrepreneurial innovation in China (2015) (0)
Interview with Victor Nee: Sociology Should be Open to Intellectual Trade with Ally Disciplines (Part 2) (2014) (0)
5. Legitimacy and Organizational Change (2012) (0)
Behind China's turmoil (1978) (0)
9. Political Economy of Capitalism (2012) (0)
Inter-Firm Status Signaling Through Conversational Exchange (2011) (0)
Strategic decisions: behavioral differences between CEOs and others (2019) (0)
Mechanisms of Institutional Change (2019) (0)
Introduction (2007) (0)
6. Industrial Clusters and Competitive Advantage (2012) (0)
7. Conclusion: Remaking the Mainstream (2003) (0)
3. Assimilation in Practice: The Europeans and East Asians (2003) (0)
Assimilation (2020) (0)
Knowledge Creation in a Transitional Economy (2005) (0)
Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique.James S. Coleman , Thomas J. Fararo (1994) (0)
Forms of Capital and the Incorporation of Immigrants (2016) (0)
3. State Structures (2014) (0)
4. Entrepreneurs and Institutional Innovation (2012) (0)
Book Review Editor: ELEANOR M. ROGG Review of Reviews Editon: EILEEN REITER, NORMAN KANTER (2016) (0)
Processes of the World-System.Edited by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein. Sage, 1980. 316 pp. $9.95 (1984) (0)
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation. (2023) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Víctor Nee

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Víctor Nee?

Víctor Nee is affiliated with the following schools: