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Thijs Velema

Associate Professor

Organizational sociology
Institutional theory
Social network analysis
Sport sociology and athletic labor markets
Innovation in cultural markets
thijs.velema@mail.ntpu.edu.tw College of Social Science 640 Daily between 12.00 and 14.00
Experience

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

Refereed journal articles


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)

Book chapters

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

MOST research grants

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)