• Goldwin Smith Professor
• Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society

Books

• Market Transition Theory: The Sociology of Institutional Change in China (Beijing: Social Science Academy Press, 2009).
• On Capitalism. Co-editor and contributor with Richard Swedberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
• The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. Co-editor and contributor with Richard Swedberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
• Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and the New Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
• The New Institutionalism in Sociology, coeditor and contributor with Mary Brinton (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).

Articles and Chapters

• "Bringing Market Transition Theory to the Firm" (with Sonja Opper) in Market Transition and the Firm in China, edited by Lisa A. Keister. (Sage Press, 2009).
• "Entrepreneurial Action: Market Transition, Property Rights and Innovation in China" (with Jeong-han Kang and Sonja Opper). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009.
• "Bureaucracy and Financial Markets" (with Sonja Opper). Kyklos, February 2009.
• "On Politicized Capitalism" (with Sonja Opper) in On Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
• "Developmental State and Corporate Governance in China" (with Sonja Opper and Sonia Wong). Management and Organizational Review 3 (2008):19-51.
• "Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Societies" (with Sonja Opper) in The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. (London: Blackwell, 2006).
• "Why Institutions Matter: Segmented Assimilation and Beyond" in Debates in Inequality , David Grusky ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
• "Remaking Inequality: Institutional Change and Income Stratification in Urban China" (with Yang Cao) Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (JAPE) 2005.
• "Introduction" with Richard Swedberg Pp. xxxv-xlvi in The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
• "Economic Sociology and New Institutional Economics" (with Richard Swedberg) Pp. 789-818 in The Handbook of New Institutional Economics, Claude Menard and Mary Shirley, eds. (Amsterdam: Kluwer Publication, 2005).
• "The New Institutionalism in Economics and Sociology." In The Handbook of Economic Sociology (2nd ed.) edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
• "Market Transition and the Life Course in Post-Communist Societies" In Historical Influences on Lives and Aging, Glen Elder and K. Warner Schaie, eds. (New York: Springer Publishing, 2005).
• "Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China." Pp. 53-74 In The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
• "A New Concept of Assimilation: A Reformulation for the New American Diversity" (with Richard Alba) Migrationsreport 2004: Fakten ? Analysen ? Perspektiven, hg. für den Rat für Migration v. Klaus J. Bade, Michael Bommes und Rainer Münz, Campus, Frankfurt a. M., New York 2004 (vorauss. Juni 2004)
• "Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China" (with Yang Cao) Management and Organizations Review 1,1 (2004): 23-56.
• "Institutional Change and Immigration" in Host Societies, Jeffrey Reitz, ed. (San Diego: Center for Migration Studies, 2003).
• "Assimilation Theory Reformulated" (with Richard Alba) in Reinventing the Melting Pot, Tamar Jacoby, ed. New York: Free Press, 2003.
• "Postsocialist Inequality: The Causes of Continuity and Discontinuity" (with Yang Cao) in Research on Social Stratification and Mobility (2002).
• "Postsocialist Stratification." Pp. 846-851 in Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective , edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder CO: Westview Press (2001).
• "Trust in Ethnic Ties: Social Capital and Immigrants." (with Jimy Sanders) Pp. 374-392 in Trust and Society, edited by Karen Cook, Russell Sage Foundation (2001).
• "Understanding the Diversity of Immigrant Incorporation." (with Jimy Sanders) Ethnic and Racial Studies (2001).
• "The Rational Peasant in China: Flexible Adaptation, Risk Diversification and Opportunity." (with Lisa Keister) Rationality and Society (2001).
• "Gender Inequality and Nonfarm Employment in Rural China." (with Rebecca Matthews) Social Science Research 29 (2000): 606-632.
• "The Role of the State in Making a Market Economy." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 156 (2000): 64-88.
• "Controversies and Evidence in the Market Transition Debate." (with Yang Cao) American Journal of Sociology 105 (2000):1175-1195.
• "Path Dependent Societal Transformation: Stratification in Mixed Economies." (with Yang Cao) Theory and Society 28 (1999): 799-834.
• "Institutional Foundation of Robust Economic Performance: Public-Sector Industrial Growth in China." (with Sijin Su), Pp. 167-187 in Industrial Transformation in Eastern Europe in the Light of the East Asian Experience, edited by Jeffrey Henderson, (Houndmills: MacMillan Press,1998).
• "The Emergence and Diffusion of Institutional Forms." (with David Strang), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 154 (1998): 706-715.
• "Norms and Networks in Economic and Organizational Performance." American Economic Review Vol. 87 (1998), No. 4, pp. 85-89.
• "Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange and Social Structure." (with Paul Ingram). Pp. 19-45 in The New Institutionalism in Sociology, edited by M. Brinton and V. Nee (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).
• "Sources of the New Institutionalism." Pp. 1-16 in The New Institutionalism in Sociology, edited by M. Brinton and V. Nee (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).
• "Rethinking Assimilation Theory in a New Era of Immigration." (with Richard Alba) International Migration Review Vol. 31, No.4 (1997): 826-874.
• "Markets and Inequality in the Transitions from State Socialism" (with Raymond V. Liedka), Pp. 202-224 in Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development, edited by M. Midlarsky, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• "Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family as Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital" (with Jimy Sanders), American Sociological Review 60 (1996):231-250.
• "Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism." (with Rebecca Matthews), Annual Review of Sociology vol. 22 (1996): 401-36.
• The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China. American Journal of Sociology 100 (1996): 908-949.
• "Institutions, Social Ties, and Credible Commitment: Local Corporatism in China." (with Sijin Su) In Reforming Asian Economies: The Growth of Market Institutions, edited by John McMillan and Barry Naughton (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
• "Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and Mixed Economy." (with Jimy M. Sanders and Scott Sernau), American Sociological Review 59 (1994): 849-872.
• "Sleeping with the Enemy: A Dynamic Model of Declining Political Commitment in State Socialism." (with Peng Lian) Theory and Society 23 (1994): 253- 296.