Nee
Biographic Data
| ID | 14265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nee |
| FAMILY NAME | Nee |
| SIGNATURE | NEE |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5097-8491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2623 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
The Assembly of an American Sociologist
This article examines the relationship between biography, chance, and persistence in accounting for the assembly of an American sociologist. It traces the accumulation of experiences involved in a research journey aimed at explanation of social behavior and institutional change. The process of discovery leading to a new theory may arise from serendipitous observations gained through fieldwork, while new combinations of ideas also emerge from soci…
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation
Why do social interactions linked to sharing knowledge drive the emergence of a regional technology economy? We proffer a positive theory and explanation-sketch identifying mechanisms and initial conditions in an explanation of emergence of a knowledge economy. We trace the emergence of a knowledge economy, from a small group of founding members to a regional technology economy. With the rapid influx of new people, knowledge spillover motivates t…
Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China
Emergence of diverse and specialized knowledge in a metropolitan tech cluster
Immigration, opportunity, and assimilation in a technology economy
Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics Between Immigrants and Natives
The diversity induced by migration flows to Western societies has continued to generate scholarly attention, and a sizable new body of work on immigrant incorporation has been produced in the past ten years. We review recent work in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. Despite differences between the United States as a settler society and Western Europe as a composite of class…
Middle‐Range Theories of Institutional Change
This article is based on my presidential address delivered in Baltimore at the 2018 annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. In it, I explore the ways in which theories of the middle‐range help us advance sociology as a social science at a time when many express concern about the fragmentation of the discipline
The Entrepreneur's Network and Firm Performance
Diverse organizational forms coexist in China's market economy, adapting and evolving in intensely competitive production markets. We examine the networks of founding chief executive officers of private manufacturing firms in seven cities of the Yangzi River Delta region in China. Through sequence analysis of ties that entrepreneurs relied on for help in the founding and critical events of their businesses, we identify three discrete forms of net…
Endogenous dynamics of institutional change
A parsimonious set of mechanisms explains how and under which conditions behavioral deviations build into cascades that reshape institutional frameworks from the bottom up, even if institutional innovations initially conflict with the legally codified rules of the game. Specifically, we argue that this type of endogenous institutional change emerges from an interplay between three factors: the utility gain agents associate with decoupling from in…
Sociology and the New Institutionalism
Re-Imagining Economic Sociology
Economic institutions enabling trust and cooperation rest on multiplex networks and norms of reciprocity. A key feature of economic institutions is that they facilitate commercial transactions by reducing uncertainty and risk in markets. When trust and trustworthiness stem from confidence in community sanctions of norms, principal and agent relations are enforceable without resorting to legal rules and litigation. This chapter examines industrial…
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration
In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shift…
Homophily in the career mobility of China's political elite
Why Asian Americans are Becoming Mainstream
In contrast to earlier waves of immigration, the post–1965 Asian immigration to the United States has not spawned an exclusionist backlash among native whites. Rather, the new Asian immigrants and their children are rapidly gaining access to the American mainstream. Whether in integrated residential communities, in colleges and universities, or in mainstream workplaces, Asian Americans' presence is ever more the rule, not the exception. The succe…
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private enterprise overcome these initial obstacles, to become the engine of …
A Theory of Innovation: Market Transition, Property Rights, and Innovative Activity
The aim of this paper is to specify a theory to explain why transitions to a market economy cause a shift to a higher level of innovation. Marketization increases the power of economic actors relative to political actors, increases inter-firm competition, creates new opportunities for entrepreneurship, and subsequently motivates innovative activity. For our empirical application, we focus on China's transition economy, which offers a broad range …
Political Capital in a Market Economy
This research applies a transaction-focused institutional analysis to compare the value of political capital in different institutional domains of China's market economy. Our results show that the value of political capital is associated with institutional domains of the economy in which agents can use political connections to secure advantages. Political capital is most fungible in institutional domains where government restricts economic activi…
On Politicized Capitalism
Assimilation
Assimilation is reemerging as a core concept for comprehending the long‐run consequences of immigration, both for the immigrants and their descendants and for the society that receives them
Remaking Inequality: Institutional Change and Income Stratification in Urban China
This paper examines how China's institutional changes toward market transform the income inequality in the urban economy. We highlight the replacement of bureaucratic allocation with market on three levels: the creation and expansion of the private/hybrid sector that is relatively autonomous from direct state control, public firms' reduced dependence on the state and growing exposure to market discipline, and the emergence of urban labor markets.…
Interview
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Response to Reviews of Remaking the American Mainstream
Immigration in the Balance
Espiritu, Yen, and Paul Ong. 1994. Class Constraints on Racial Solidarity among Asian Americans. In New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring, edited by Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Hamilton, Nora, and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla. 2001. Seeking Community in a Global City: e jivar re inds researchers that i acro context a fect everyday s a ong i migrants. For instance, l i obt…
Postsocialist inequalities: The causes of continuity and discontinuity
Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market
We study how the social capital and closure properties of family- and ethnic-based social networks influence the incorporation of immigrants into their host society In so doing, we examine the relationship between immigrants' reliance on social ties and their employment. Data collected through ethnographic depth interviews of Asian immigrants in Los Angeles indicate that reliance on social ties usually operates informally, as when job seekers con…
A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism
State socialist redistributive economies are characterized by the allocation and distribution of goods through central planning. This paper develops a theory of market transition which argues that, in reforming socialist economies, the transition from redistributive to market coordination shifts sources of power and privilege to favor direct producers relative to redistributors. The shit improves incentives for direct producers, stimulates the gr…
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
Assimilation theory has been subject to intensive critique for decades. Yet no other framework has provided the social science community with as deep a corpus of cumulative findings concerning the incorporation of immigrants and their descendants. We argue that assimilation theory has not lost its utility for the study of contemporary immigration to the United States. In making our case, we review critically the canonical account of assimilation …
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
Richard Alba, Victor Nee, Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, Special Issue: Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans (Winter, 1997), pp. 826-874
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family as Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital
We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic immigrants is affected by family composition and human capital/class resources. Because of collective interests and strong personal ties the family facilitates the pooling of labor power and financial resources. Enterprising immigrants draw on these resources when establishing and operating small businesses. Our findings also show the importance of human capital/class resources in accounting…
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation: A Forms-of-Capital Model
This article develops the concept of forms of capital as the basis of a model of immigrant incorporation. The model sets out the manner in which the social, financial, and human-cultural capital of immigrant families predict the sorting of immigrants into various labour market trajectories. For example, immigrants arriving with low stocks of financial and human-cultural capital are most likely to find employment in the ethnic economy, whereas imm…
Social Inequalities in Reforming State Socialism: Between Redistribution and Markets in China
This article extends market transition theory to an analysis of inequality under the conditions of partial reform in China. Logit regression analysis indicates cadres (officials) have no greater odds than other households of being among the privileged or avoiding poverty. Entrepreneurs andformer team cadres, however, are advantaged. Despite the rise of a hybrid elite of entrepreneurs who are currently cadres that capitalizes on redistributive pow…
The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China
This article examines the effect of institutional change-the shift from redistribution to markets-in altering the mechanisms of stratification. New institutionalists maintain that interests are embedded in institutional arrangements and change as institutions change. China has undergone rapid and extensive household income mobility, incrementally altering the stratification order based on socialist redistribution. The shift to markets causes a de…
Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics Between Immigrants and Natives
The diversity induced by migration flows to Western societies has continued to generate scholarly attention, and a sizable new body of work on immigrant incorporation has been produced in the past ten years. We review recent work in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. Despite differences between the United States as a settler society and Western Europe as a composite of class…
Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and the Mixed Economy
Les AA. examinent l'evolution de la situation sociale des asiatiques aux Etats-Unis a Los Angeles. Dans cette ville multi-ethnique les situations sociales semblent moins figees. L'analyse multivariee permet de montrer qu'apres une succession de divers emplois et apres un certain laps de temps, les immigrants quittent l'economie ethnique informelle et s'engagent dans l'economie formelle, ce qui signifie, pour eux, des gains en matiere de revenu. L…
Asian Immigrants' Reliance on Social Ties in a Multiethnic Labor Market
We study how the social capital and closure properties of family- and ethnic-based social networks influence the incorporation of immigrants into their host society In so doing, we examine the relationship between immigrants' reliance on social ties and their employment. Data collected through ethnographic depth interviews of Asian immigrants in Los Angeles indicate that reliance on social ties usually operates informally, as when job seekers con…
Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism
The far-reaching institutional change and societal transformation occurring in former state-socialist societies have attracted new social science interest in transition economies. This chapter reviews recent research on China, highlighting the theoretical arguments and findings of general interest to social scientists. The paper argues that a paradigm shift is taking place within research on China, from state-centered analysis to a theoretical ap…
Problems in Resolving the Enclave Economy Debate
D ebates in the social sciences frequently go unresolved they persist as long as the debating parties sustain independent research programs and secure outlets for their publications (Alexander and Columy forthcoming). In part, this reflects the discursive character of theoretical discourse between and within academic traditions and schools of thought. Yet even when social scientists attempt to verify hypotheses through empirical tests, resolution…
Path dependent societal transformation: Stratification in hybrid mixed economies
The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans
1985). The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A: Toward the Twenty-First Century, pp. 75-93
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth in Rural China
Homophily in the career mobility of China's political elite
Asian American Socioeconomic Achievement: The Strength of the Family Bond
The analysis emphasizes the need to examine structural and cultural factors in the sending and receiving countries over a historical process to understand how immigrants are incorporated in American society. The article argues that Chinese were slower to make the transition from sojourner to immigrant due to structural characteristics of Chinese village society; whereas Japanese immigrants were not tied by strong family bonds to Japan and made a …
Why Asian Americans are Becoming Mainstream
In contrast to earlier waves of immigration, the post–1965 Asian immigration to the United States has not spawned an exclusionist backlash among native whites. Rather, the new Asian immigrants and their children are rapidly gaining access to the American mainstream. Whether in integrated residential communities, in colleges and universities, or in mainstream workplaces, Asian Americans' presence is ever more the rule, not the exception. The succe…
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration
In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shift…
Institutional Change and Economic Growth in China: The View from the Villages
The maoist era of egalitarian collectivism has decidedly come to an end. Although some villages persist in developing cooperative enterprises, the collective is being transformed from a dominant organizational form to one that plays a subsidiary role to the private household sector. In effect, the collective has been relegated to the position formerly held by the private sector. Everywhere the emphasis is on economic growth based on household pro…
Postsocialist inequalities: The causes of continuity and discontinuity
Sleeping with the enemy: A dynamic model of declining political commitment in state socialism
Remaking Inequality: Institutional Change and Income Stratification in Urban China
This paper examines how China's institutional changes toward market transform the income inequality in the urban economy. We highlight the replacement of bureaucratic allocation with market on three levels: the creation and expansion of the private/hybrid sector that is relatively autonomous from direct state control, public firms' reduced dependence on the state and growing exposure to market discipline, and the emergence of urban labor markets.…
Endogenous dynamics of institutional change
A parsimonious set of mechanisms explains how and under which conditions behavioral deviations build into cascades that reshape institutional frameworks from the bottom up, even if institutional innovations initially conflict with the legally codified rules of the game. Specifically, we argue that this type of endogenous institutional change emerges from an interplay between three factors: the utility gain agents associate with decoupling from in…
The Cultural Revolution at Peking University
Peking University, familiarly called Peita in China, was founded as the Imperial University in 1898. It has been the country's most celebrated modern institution of higher learning, as well as its oldest. By the early 1960's Peita had about 10,000 students in its eighteen faculties.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at …
China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present
Behind China's turmoil
Not long ago it was difficult to imagine China without Mao Ze-dong. No figure in history had so great a hand in charting the course of an entire civilization as Mao did through his leadership of the Chinese revolution. Although we think of him mainly as a great political and military strategiest, Mao also developed a far-reaching and comprehensive strategy for China's economic development. That is the subject of John G. Gurley's China's Economy a…
Towards a social anthropology of the Chinese revolution
Nowhere has the myth of the political inertness of the peasantry been so thoroughly challenged as in the Chinese revolution. Peasants, in the making of the Chinese revolution, stood at the center of the revolutionary drama. It was the peasantry that constituted the overwhelming social force of the revolution, and who had the greatest stake in its outcome. This article examines the ethnographic data provided by the Crooks' landmark study of revolu…
Post-Mao changes in a South China production brigade
With the opening of possibilities for field work in China, we can anticipate a new stage in the systematic study of Chinese society. Previously, sociologists and anthropologists were limited in their quest for social data to refugee interviews, deciphering Chinese newspapers, and reports filed by visiting delegations and journalists. Although relatively sophisticated methods were developed by researchers to compensate the “data problem,” the fiel…
Peasant Household Individualism
(1984). Peasant Household Individualism. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 14, Chinese Rural Development: The Great Transformation, pp. 50-76
Processes of the World-System
Papers deal with three central issues in the study of the capitalist world economy: the long waves, cycles in the process of the international economy; the role class plays in peripheralization of countries; and an holistic view of the world economy
Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawaii.Clarence Glick
Guests in the Dragon: Social Demography of a Chinese District, 1985-1946
An Assessment of Chinese Socialist Urbanism
State and Society in Contemporary China
The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans
1985). The road to parity: Determinants of the socioeconomic achievements of Asian Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 8, Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A: Toward the Twenty-First Century, pp. 75-93
Asian American Socioeconomic Achievement: The Strength of the Family Bond
The analysis emphasizes the need to examine structural and cultural factors in the sending and receiving countries over a historical process to understand how immigrants are incorporated in American society. The article argues that Chinese were slower to make the transition from sojourner to immigrant due to structural characteristics of Chinese village society; whereas Japanese immigrants were not tied by strong family bonds to Japan and made a …
The Peasant Household Economy and Decollectivization in China
A critical problem of the people's commune system was the inability to resolve the "free rider" problem within the framework of collective agriculture. The appeal of household production to both the State and peasants has been the dramatic increase in agricultural productivity and household income. Unlike collective farming, household production minimizes the "free rider" dilemma. Decollectivization and the expansion of rural markets has brought …
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism
State socialist redistributive economies are characterized by the allocation and distribution of goods through central planning. This paper develops a theory of market transition which argues that, in reforming socialist economies, the transition from redistributive to market coordination shifts sources of power and privilege to favor direct producers relative to redistributors. The shit improves incentives for direct producers, stimulates the gr…
State Socialism in Transition
Institutional Change and Economic Growth in China: The View from the Villages
The maoist era of egalitarian collectivism has decidedly come to an end. Although some villages persist in developing cooperative enterprises, the collective is being transformed from a dominant organizational form to one that plays a subsidiary role to the private household sector. In effect, the collective has been relegated to the position formerly held by the private sector. Everywhere the emphasis is on economic growth based on household pro…
State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government
Social Inequalities in Reforming State Socialism: Between Redistribution and Markets in China
This article extends market transition theory to an analysis of inequality under the conditions of partial reform in China. Logit regression analysis indicates cadres (officials) have no greater odds than other households of being among the privileged or avoiding poverty. Entrepreneurs andformer team cadres, however, are advantaged. Despite the rise of a hybrid elite of entrepreneurs who are currently cadres that capitalizes on redistributive pow…
"Peasant Entrepreneurs in China's "Second Economy: An Institutional Analysis
Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Forms, Property Rights, and Mixed Economy in China
Victor Nee Cornell University This paper underscores the importance of hybrid forms in the current market transitions in state socialism through an examination of the emergence of marketized firms and cadre-entrepreneurs in China. The paper develops a new-institutionalist analysis of the organizational dynamics that propel market transition in reforming state socialism. Under conditions of partial reform, marketized firms enjoy a transaction cost…
Problems in Resolving the Enclave Economy Debate
D ebates in the social sciences frequently go unresolved they persist as long as the debating parties sustain independent research programs and secure outlets for their publications (Alexander and Columy forthcoming). In part, this reflects the discursive character of theoretical discourse between and within academic traditions and schools of thought. Yet even when social scientists attempt to verify hypotheses through empirical tests, resolution…
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society (Xiangtu Zhongguo)
Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique. James S. Coleman , Thomas J. Fararo
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