I am currently collecting data for a new project with Daphne Demetry about entrepreneurial pivoting during the Covid-19 pandemic. I am also continuing to work on network-based job matching. My recent working paper with Felicia Tian compares responses to referral bonuses in the U.S. and in China.
Work-in-progress.
Obukhova, E. and A. M. Kleinbaum. Scouting for Good Jobs: Gender and Networking in Job Search. Under review.
Zhang, LT, H-J Cho, and E. Obukhova. Status Theory of Performance Feedback. Under review.
Obukhova, E. and F. Tian. Referrals in China and the US.
Kim, M. and E. Obukhova. Staying out of Scandal’s Shadow: Categorical Ambiguity as a Competitive Advantage. Data collection stage.
Peer reviewed work.
Forthcoming. Obukhova, E. and B. Rubineau. Market transition and network-based job matching in China: The referrer perspective. Industrial Labor Relations Review.
2017 Obukhova, E. and L. Zhang*. Social Capital and Job Search in Urban China: The Strength-of-Strong-Ties Hypothesis Revisited. Chinese Sociological Review 49(4): 340-361.
2016 Zhang*, J., E. Zuckerman and E. Obukhova. A Lack of Security or of Cultural Capital? Acculturative Conservatism in the Naming Choices of Early 20th-Century U.S. Jews. Social Forces 94(4): 1509-1538.
2014 Obukhova, E., E. Zuckerman and J. Zhang*. When Politics Froze Fashion: The Effect of the Cultural Revolution on Naming in Beijing. American Journal of Sociology 120(2): 555-583.
2013 Obukhova, E. and G. Lan*. Do Job-Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Direct Test with Contemporaneous Searches. Management Science 59(10): 2204-2216.
2012 Obukhova, E. Motivation vs. Relevance: Using Strong Ties to Find a Job in China. Social Science Research 41(3): 470-480.
Other publications.
2005 Obukhova, E. Redefining State Embeddedness for the Global Economy: The Rise of China’s Silicon Valley. Proceedings of 2005 Chinese Economists Society International Conference on Sustainable Economic Growth in China. Volume I-B, p. 3-8.
2002 Obukhova, E. and J. Guyer. Transcending the Formal/Informal Distinction: Commercial Relations in Africa and Russia in the Post-1989 World. In Theory in Economic Anthropology, J. Ensminger, ed. Alta Mira Press: Walnut Creek, CA.
2002 Obukhova, E. Living and Trusting in the Economy of Debt: The Distribution of Newspapers and Magazines in Ibadan. In Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation In Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986-96, J. Guyer, L. Denzer, and A. Agbaje, eds. Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH.
Book reviews.
2019 Social Mobility and the Legal Profession: The Case of Professional Associations and Access to the English Bar, by Elaine Freer. New York: Routledge, 2018. Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology, 48(6): 660-661.
2011 Culture and Economics: On Values, Economics and International Business, by Eelke De Jong. Routledge, 2009. Reviewed for Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(2): 310-311.
2006 The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change, by Morris L. Bian. Harvard University Press, 2005. Reviewed for American Journal of Sociology, 112 (2): 629–631.
2004 Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change, by Bruce J. Dickson. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Reviewed for Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52 (4): 901-903.
Work-in-progress.
Obukhova, E. and A. M. Kleinbaum. Scouting for Good Jobs: Gender and Networking in Job Search. Under review.
Zhang, LT, H-J Cho, and E. Obukhova. Status Theory of Performance Feedback. Under review.
Obukhova, E. and F. Tian. Referrals in China and the US.
Kim, M. and E. Obukhova. Staying out of Scandal’s Shadow: Categorical Ambiguity as a Competitive Advantage. Data collection stage.
Peer reviewed work.
Forthcoming. Obukhova, E. and B. Rubineau. Market transition and network-based job matching in China: The referrer perspective. Industrial Labor Relations Review.
2017 Obukhova, E. and L. Zhang*. Social Capital and Job Search in Urban China: The Strength-of-Strong-Ties Hypothesis Revisited. Chinese Sociological Review 49(4): 340-361.
2016 Zhang*, J., E. Zuckerman and E. Obukhova. A Lack of Security or of Cultural Capital? Acculturative Conservatism in the Naming Choices of Early 20th-Century U.S. Jews. Social Forces 94(4): 1509-1538.
2014 Obukhova, E., E. Zuckerman and J. Zhang*. When Politics Froze Fashion: The Effect of the Cultural Revolution on Naming in Beijing. American Journal of Sociology 120(2): 555-583.
2013 Obukhova, E. and G. Lan*. Do Job-Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Direct Test with Contemporaneous Searches. Management Science 59(10): 2204-2216.
2012 Obukhova, E. Motivation vs. Relevance: Using Strong Ties to Find a Job in China. Social Science Research 41(3): 470-480.
Other publications.
2005 Obukhova, E. Redefining State Embeddedness for the Global Economy: The Rise of China’s Silicon Valley. Proceedings of 2005 Chinese Economists Society International Conference on Sustainable Economic Growth in China. Volume I-B, p. 3-8.
2002 Obukhova, E. and J. Guyer. Transcending the Formal/Informal Distinction: Commercial Relations in Africa and Russia in the Post-1989 World. In Theory in Economic Anthropology, J. Ensminger, ed. Alta Mira Press: Walnut Creek, CA.
2002 Obukhova, E. Living and Trusting in the Economy of Debt: The Distribution of Newspapers and Magazines in Ibadan. In Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation In Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986-96, J. Guyer, L. Denzer, and A. Agbaje, eds. Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH.
Book reviews.
2019 Social Mobility and the Legal Profession: The Case of Professional Associations and Access to the English Bar, by Elaine Freer. New York: Routledge, 2018. Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology, 48(6): 660-661.
2011 Culture and Economics: On Values, Economics and International Business, by Eelke De Jong. Routledge, 2009. Reviewed for Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(2): 310-311.
2006 The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change, by Morris L. Bian. Harvard University Press, 2005. Reviewed for American Journal of Sociology, 112 (2): 629–631.
2004 Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change, by Bruce J. Dickson. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Reviewed for Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52 (4): 901-903.
