GRANTS

2007-2008 “Evolving Regional Governance Regimes: Challenges for Institution Building in the CEE Countries.” EU FP6 research project. Researcher (with Laszlo Bruszt as principal investigator).
2006-2009 “Network Dynamics in an Emerging Democracy.” National Science Foundation SES 0616802. Co-Principal Investigator (with David Stark as Principal Investigator).
2007 Associate Research Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
2004 National Science Foundation, Small Grants for Exploratory Research: Technologies of Civil Society in East Central Europe. Co-Principal Investigator (with David Stark as Principal Investigator).
2003-2006 International Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
2004-2005 “Technologies of Civil Society in East Central Europe.” National Science Foundation, Small Grants for Exploratory Research. Co-Principal Investigator (with David Stark as Principal Investigator).
2004 Junior Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study
2002-2004 Doctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
2002-2005 “Pathways of Property Transformation: Enterprise Network Careers in Hungary, 1989-2000.” National Science Foundation SES 0136995. Researcher (with David Stark as Principal Investigator).
2002-2004 ISERP Fellow (Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University)
2001-2004 Paul Lazarsfeld Fellowship, Columbia University
2000-2001 Fulbright Fellowship, Columbia University (visiting scholar)
1999-2000 Business groups in transition. Research grant of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office
1999 Social networks, organizational culture and financial performance. Research grant of MATAV corporation.
1997 Bank and power. Research grant from Ferenc Faludi Academy.

PUBLICATIONS BETWEEN 2004-2008

Journal articles, book chapters

2010 Balazs Vedres, and David Stark. “Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups” American Journal of Sociology 115(4):1150-1190.

2009 Laszlo Bruszt, and Balazs Vedres. “The Politics of Civic Combinations.” in: Victor Perez-Diaz (editor): Markets and Civil Society. Berghahn Books, New York, NY.

2008 Laszlo Bruszt, and Balazs Vedres. “The Politics of Civic Combinations.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 19(2):140-160.
2007 Balazs Vedres. “Pathways from postsocialism: ownership sequence and performance of firms in Hungary, 1991–1999.” European Management Review 4(2):93-105.
2007 David Stark, and Balazs Vedres. “Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary” in: John Padgett, and Walter W. Powell (editors): Economic Transformations and Trajectories: A Dynamic Multiple-Network Approach. Santa Fe Institute (forthcoming).
2006 Balazs Vedres. “Politikusok a magyar nagyvállalatok hálózatában 1987-2001 között.” Magyar Tudomány, 2006/11:1339-1344.
2006 David Stark, Balázs Vedres, and Laszlo Bruszt.“Rooted transnational publics: Integrating foreign ties and civic activism.” Theory and Society, 35(3):323-349.
2006 David Stark and Balázs Vedres.“Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary .” American Journal of Sociology 111(5):1367-1412.
2006 Balázs Vedres.“"The social structure of research accountability: Regimes of worth, claims of representation, and networks of accountability in research" Foresight Europe 2:35-37.
2005 David Stark, and Balazs Vedres. “Sequenze di rete e investimento estero in Ungheria” Stato E Mercato 75(3):391-422.
2005 Zoltán Szántó, and Balázs Vedres. “Interfacing the Market: Network Based Reengineering of Hierarchies”. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Volume 5.
2005 Balázs Vedres, Laszlo Bruszt, and David Stark. “Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 597:171-188.
2005 Laszlo Bruszt, Balázs Vedres, and David Stark. “Shaping the Web of Civic Participation: Civil Society Websites in Eastern Europe.” Journal of Public Policy, 25(1):149-163.
2005 Laszlo Bruszt, Balázs Vedres, and David Stark. “A technológiák szervezése és a szervezés technológiái: az online civil szervezodés fobb mufaji formái Kelet-Európában.” Információs Társadalom, 2005/1.
2004 David Stark, and Balazs Vedres. “?????????? ????? ??????? ???????????: ?????? ?????????????????? ???????????? ????? ? ??????????? ?????????? ? ???????, 1987–2001.” ????????????? ?????????? 6(1):14-45.
2004 Balázs Vedres. “Testing Narratives of Postsocialism: Transition and Sequence Approaches to the Ownership Histories of the Largest Hungarian Corporations, 1991-1999”. Hungarian Review of Sociology, special issue.

PUBLICATIONS BEFORE 2004

Books

2002 Balázs Vedres, with Zoltán Szántó. Kapcsolathálók, szervezeti kultúra, pénzügyi teljesítmény. Szervezetszociológiai tanulmányok a magyar távközlésfejlesztés finanszírozásáról. (Networks, organizational culture, and financial performance: Studies in the financing of Hungarian telecommunications development) Aula, 2002, Budapest.

Journal articles, book chapters

2000 Balázs Vedres. “The Constellations of Economic Power.” Connections (journal of the International Network of Social Network Analysis) 23(1):44-59
2000 Balázs Vedres: “A tulajdonosi hálózatok felbomlása. A rekombináns tulajdonformák szerepe és a haza nagyvállalatok tulajdonszerkezetének jellemzöi a kilencvenes évek végén.” (The dissolution of ownership networks: The role of recombinant ownership forms and the structure Hungarian large firm ownership at the end of the nineties.) Közgazdasági Szemle 47(8):680-699
1999 Balázs Vedres: The Constellations of Economic Power: the Position of Political Actors, Banks and Large Corporations in the network of Directorate Interlocks in Hungary. BISS Public, Brandenburg- Berliner Instituts für sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, 1999/28.
Reprinted in: Sabine Gensior (editor): Sprungbrett Region. Berlin, Edition Sigma, 2001.
1998 Balázs Vedres: A piaci átmenet elmélettörténete. (The history of ideas on market transition.) Szociológiai Szemle, 1998 December
1998 Balázs Vedres: Locked in Centrality. Banks in the Network of Large Corporations in Hungary, 1997. Szociológiai Szemle English special issue, 1998 December
1998 Balázs Vedres: A gazdasági mezö szerkezete Magyarországon. (The structure of the economic field in Hungary.) Közgazdasgtudományi Egyetem jubileumi kiadvány, 1998 Augusztus
1998 Balázs Vedres: Üzleti csoportok a magyar gazdasági átmenetben. (Business groups in the Hungarian economic transition.) Cafe Babel 1998 Nyár.
1997 Balázs Vedres: Bank és hatalom. Bankok a hazai nagyvállalatok kapcsolathálójában. (Bank and power: banks in the network of large enterprises.) Szociológiai Szemle 1997/ 2
1997 Balázs Vedres: Ökonokrata menedzser elit - az átalakulás nyertesei? (Econocratic manager elite – the winners of transformation?) Szociológiai Szemle 1997/1

Working papers

2007 Balázs Vedres and David Stark. Opening Closure: Intercohesion and Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Business Groups. Under review at American Journal of Sociology
2002 Balázs Vedres – Péter Csigó: Negotiating the End of Transition: A Network Approach to Local Action in Political Discourse Dynamics, Hungary 1997. Working paper, Columbia University, Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy.
2001 David Stark – Balázs Vedres: The Pathways of Property Transformation. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper, Columbia University Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy Working Paper, 2001 September.
Also appeared in the working paper series of the Santa Fe Institute.
1997 Béla Janky– Balázs Vedres (editors): A magyar gazdasági elit a 90-es évek elején. (The Hungarian business elite at the beginning of the nineties.) Working paper volume, Budapest University of Economic Sciences 1997.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2008 “The Coevolution of the Political Field and Politicized Business Networks in Hungary, 1987-2006.” First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2008.
2007 “For the Profit of the Region? Accountability and EU Projects Won by NGOs, Firms, and Municipalities in Hungary and Poland.” Accountability of Private Organizations. European University Institute, November 30 – December 1, 2007.
2007 “Historical Network Analysis, and the Dynamics of Cohesion.” The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural, and Technological Connections. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, April 26, 2007.
2006 The Life of Triangles: Dynamics of Business Network Cohesion. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM, September 12 , 2006.
2004 Social Times of Network Spaces. 99th Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Regular Session, Economic Sociology. San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004
2004 Social Times of Network Spaces. XXIV International Sunbelt Social Network Conference Portorož, Slovenia, May 12 - 16, 2004
2003 Lock-ins, Sell-offs, and Takeovers: Analysis of Ownership Sequences in Postsocialism. 98th Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Economic Sociology Paper Session. Atlanta, August 16-19. 2003
2002 Testing Narratives of Postsocialism: Transition and Sequence Approaches to the Ownership Changes of the Largest Hungarian Corporations, 1991-1999. Social Science History Association, 2002 Annual Meeting, October 24-27, St. Louis.
2002 The Analysis of Network Event Sequences. Workshop on Network Visualization, Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Ecole des Mines, June 9-10, Paris
2002 The Shape of Postsocialist Time: From Grand Narratives to Typical Sequences of Ownership Changes in Hungary, 1991-1999. Society for Comparative Research 4th Annual Graduate Student Retreat, May 8th-10th, 2002, Central European University, Budapest
2002 Pathways of Property Transformation. Sunbelt XXII International Social Networks Conference, February 13 – 17, New Orleans.
2002 The duality of statements and speech-acts: dynamic network analysis of a discursive innovation (with Péter Csigó). Sunbelt XXII International Social Networks Conference, February 13 – 17, New Orleans.
2001 The Network Structure of Internet Markets. Sunbelt XXI International Social Networks Conference, May 2 - May 5, Budapest
2000 Constellations of Economic Power. Workshop on Regional Networks, June 22-24, Cottbus University, Germany
1999 Constellations of Economic Power. Institution und Lebenswelt oder ökonomische Rationalität, April 16-17, Berlin Institute of Social Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
1998 The Discourse of Consolidation: Network Analysis of Four Months of Economic Policy Discourse. (with Péter Csigó), Sunbelt XVIII and Fifth European International Social Networks Conference, May 28 - May 31, Sitges, Spain
1998 Locked in Centrality: Banks in the Network of Large Hungarian Companies and the State, Sunbelt XVIII and Fifth European International Social Networks Conference, May 28 - May 31, Sitges, Spain
1998 Interlocking Comrades: Modeling Economic Transformation with Networks (with Barnabás Gero), Eleventh International Conference of Europeanists, February 26-28, Baltimore, USA
1997 Econocratic Manager Elite: The Winners of the Transformation?, Changing Elites and New Rules of the Game, April 10-12, Budapest, Hungary.
1997 Bank and Power. Annual Conference of the European Association of Financial Researchers, May 12-15, Budapest, Hungary

ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

2008- Associate editor, Hungarian Review of Sociology
2007-2009 Member of the Sociology and Demography Jury of the Hungarian National Science Foundation.
2007- President, Social Networks Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association
2002- Research Associate, Center for Organizational Innovation, Columbia University
1997-1999 Instructor at István Széchenyi Collegium, Budapest Univesrity of Economic Sciences. I have organized lectures (Iván Szelényi, János Kornai and others), co-organizaed international conferences.
1992-1997 Member of István Széchenyi Collegium, Budapest Univesrity of Economic Sciences.

ADDITIONAL NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

2007 Consultant at Morningside Analytics (a New York based firm offering services in blog-network mapping).
2002 Consulting project at the Hungarian Ministry of Environment (organizational restructuring by social network analysis).
1999, 2000 Consulting projects at major Hungarian firms (organizational restructuring by social network analysis).

MEMBERSHIP TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Sociological Association
International Network for Social Network Analysis
Hungarian Sociological Association