Thijs Velema
Associate ProfessorOrganizational sociology
Institutional theory
Social network analysis
Sport sociology and athletic labor markets
Innovation in cultural markets
PhD, National Taiwan University, Department of Sociology
2015 - 2016 Post-doc, Academia Sinica
2016 - 2021 Assistant professor, Department of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University
Lee, Z-R, T.A. Velema, W-L Kung (2024) Social networks and financial investments: Evidence from stock and mutual fund holders in Taiwan. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology, No. 75, pp. 55-97
Velema, T.A. (2024) The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, doi.org/10.1177/10126902241295829
Schmidt, L., T.A. Velema & S-I Shih (2024) The individual makes the difference: How mobile personnel affects organizational status of hiring firms. Strategic Organization, doi.org/10.1177/14761270241229080
Argue, A.J. & T.A. Velema (2021) University prestige, cultural distance of the place of education, and wage differences between high-skilled U.S. immigrants with foreign and domestic credentials. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100650
Velema, T.A., (2021) Who should we get? How employer reputation shapes network hiring in Dutch professional football. Social Networks, vol. 65, pp.19-32
Velema, T.A. (2021) Globalization and player recruitment: How teams from European top leagues broker migration flows of footballers in the global transfer network. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 56, issue 4, pp.493-513
Velema, T.A., H-Y Wen & Y-K Zhou (2020) Global value added chains and the recruitment activities of European professional football teams. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol.55, issue 2, pp.127-146
Velema, T.A. (2019) Upward and downward job mobility and player market values in contemporary European professional football. Sport Management Review, vol. 22, issue 2, pp. 209-221 (IF: 3.516, 5/50 Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, 42/209 Management)
Fu Y-C, T.A. Velema*, & J-S Hwang (2018) Upward contacts in everyday life: Benefits of reaching hierarchical relations in ego-centered networks. Social Networks, vol. 54, pp. 266-278. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2018.03.002 (* The first and the second authors contributed equally to this work)
Velema, T.A. (2018) A game of snakes and ladders: Player migratory trajectories in the global football labor market. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 53, issue 6, pp. 706-725 DOI: 10.1177/1012690216679967
Velema, T.A. (2012) The contingent nature of brain gain and brain circulation: Their foreign context and the impact of return scientists on the scientific community in their country of origin. Scientometrics, vol.93, pp.893-913 (IF: 2.133, 20/100 Computer Science, Interdisciplinary applications)
Lee, Z-R
& T.A. Velema (2014) The directorate interlock network in Taiwan throughout
the twentieth century. In: T. David & G. Westerhuis, eds., The power of
corporate networks: A global and historical perspective. Routledge: London,
pp.276-295
2023-2026 Why do actors engage in non-conforming legitimacy-threatening behavior? The proliferation of predatory publishing in Taiwan (MOST 112-2410-H-305-027-MY3)
2022-2023 How networks segregate minority workers: Simulating the network decisions of employers, referrers, and workers on the labor market (MOST 111-2410-H-305-045)
2020-2023 Framing for
institutional change: How organizations use language to position products in
taken-for-granted categories in the North American video game industry. MOST
Einstein Young Scholar Fellowship (MOST 109-2636-H-110-002)
2018-2020 Red queen competition
among specialist and generalist firms in a professional labor market (MOST
107-2410-H-110-019-MY2)
2017 Who exactly is it you know
that really matters? Finding a job through employee, manager-worker, and
employer networks (MOST 106-2410-H-110-049)
2016 Soaring birds and sinking
ships in the war for talent: Reputational changes and the recruitment of high
and low status firms in contemporary professional football (MOST
105-2410-H-110-085)