Victor Nee

About

Victor Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology at Cornell University, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society and the Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society. He has previously held the position of Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and has served as Chair of the Department of Sociology. His academic background includes undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. Nee's career includes positions as a Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a return to Cornell University in 1985. He was also a Global Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University, Abu Dhabi in 2012. His research focuses on the new institutionalism in economic and organizational sociology, immigration and assimilation, and inequality. He has written extensively on these topics, contributing to the understanding of market transition, institutional change, and ethnic stratification. Nee is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and has received numerous awards and honors for his scholarly work.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Economics
• Social Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Psychology
• Market economy
• Positive economics
• Epistemology

Selected publications

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

  Annual Review of Sociology · 2019-03-06 · 278 citations

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  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 classic nation states, we find an overall pattern of in…

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• The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 131 citations

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  The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other…

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• Learning to Trust: From Relational Exchange to Generalized Trust in China

  Organization Science · 2018-06-25 · 59 citations

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  Where does generalized trust—that is, the inclination to place trust in strangers—come from? Our claim is that in economic action, sources of generalized trust may not differ much from the sources of personalized trust. Contrary to a common assumption of a sharp distinction between personalized and generalized trust, we assert a likely spillover effect from relational exchange to a person’s expectations in interacting with an anonymous other. Our research integrates behavioral measures elicited…

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• Cooperation with Strangers: Spillover of Community Norms

  Organization Science · 2022-03-25 · 20 citations

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  Why do leaders of organizations cooperate with players with whom they may never transact again? Such transactions can involve the incentives to exploit the other party because these interactions are not recurrent or embedded in networks. Yet, in a market economy, organizational actors learn to cooperate with strangers; otherwise, they risk closure from new ideas and business opportunities outside of their local community. With a large random sample of CEOs of manufacturing firms in the Yangzi Ri…

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• Strategic decisions: behavioral differences between CEOs and others

  Experimental Economics · 2019-02-25 · 19 citations

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  Abstract We study whether CEOs of private firms differ from other people with regard to their strategic decisions and beliefs about others’ strategy choices. Such differences are interesting since CEOs make decisions that are economically more relevant, because they affect not only their own utility or the well-being of household members, but the utility of many stakeholders inside and outside of the organization. They also play a central role in shaping values and norms in society. We expect di…

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Frequent coauthors

• Оlga Gurova

  Laurea University of Applied Sciences

  72 shared

• Franck Billé

  University of California, Berkeley

  72 shared

• Alexander Kurakin

  72 shared

• Regina Resheteeva

  Research Council of Finland

  72 shared

• Billé Franck -Phd

  Cornell University

  36 shared

• Billé Franck -Phd

  National Research University Higher School of Economics

  36 shared

• Sonja Opper

  Bocconi University

  35 shared

• Richard Alba

  The Graduate Center, CUNY

  17 shared

Education

• Ph.d., Sociology

  Harvard University

  1977

Awards & honors

• George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management
• Thomas and Znanieki Best Book Award from the American Sociol…
• Mirra Komoravsky Best Book Award from the Eastern Sociologic…
• James S. Coleman Best Book Award from the ASA Rationality an…
• Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management

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