Dr Vedres is a sociologist and network scientist, investigating the network sources of creative success, and diversity and discrimination on online collaborative platforms.
Dr Balazs Vedres
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Profile
Vedres’ research furthers the agenda of developing network science with social theoretical insight. His research results were published in the top journals of sociology, with two recent articles in the American Journal of Sociology developing the pragmatist notion of structural folds: creative tensions in intersecting yet cognitively diverse cohesive communities. Vedres’ recent research follows entrepreneurs, video game developers, jazz musicians, programmers, and graphic designers as they weave collaborative networks through their projects and recording sessions, analysing questions of the sources of creativity, gender inequality, and the historical sustainability of innovation systems. In another line of work, Vedres has analysed historical network evolution in the areas of transnational civic activism, politicised business groups, and the evolution of global economic flows.
Areas of interest for doctoral supervision:
creative teams, diversity and discrimination, social networks and success
Research interests:
social networks, online collaboration, teams, organisations
Position held at the OII:
- Associate Professor, December 2020 – present
- Senior Research Fellow, January 2019 – present
Journal articles
- (2019) "Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development", EPJ Data Science. 8.
- (2018) "Disembedded Openness: Inequalities in European Economic Integration at the Sectoral Level", Studies in Comparative International Development. 53 (2) 169-195.
- (2017) "Forbidden triads and creative success in jazz: the Miles Davis factor", Applied Network Science. 2.
- (2015) "Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity", American Journal of Sociology. 120 1-51.
- (2015) "Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 120 (4) 1144-1194.
- (2013) "Associating, mobilizing, politicizing: local developmental agency from without", THEORY AND SOCIETY. 42 (1) 1-23.
- (2012) "Political Holes in the Economy: The Business Network of Partisan Firms in Hungary", AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 77 (5) 700-722.
- (2010) "Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 115 (5) 1646-1648.
- (2010) "Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 115 (4) 1150-1190.
- (2010) "STRUCTURAL FOLDS: GENERATIVE DISRUPTION IN OVERLAPPING GROUPS", RAE-REVISTA DE ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS. 50 (2) 215-240.
- (2007) "Pathways from postsocialism: ownership sequence and performance of firms in Hungary, 1991-1999", EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW. 4 (2) 93-105.
- (2006) "Rooted transnational publics: Integrating foreign ties and civic activism", THEORY AND SOCIETY. 35 (3) 323-349.
DO NOT USE
- (2019) "Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development (vol 8, 25, 2019)", EPJ DATA SCIENCE. 8 (1).
Videos
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Switched to remote: trust, collaboration networks, and leadership challenges in organisations working from home
Recorded: 29 April 2020
Duration: 32:04:00
In this Wednesday Webinar Dr Balazs Vedres, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, discusses the implications and challenges of remote working.
Events
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Switched to remote: trust, collaboration networks, and leadership challenges in organisations working from home
29 April 2020
Dr Balazs Vedres, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, will discuss the implications and challenges of remote working.
Blog
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Why social data science matters to societal resilience
15 May 2020
Authors: Balazs Vedres
Dr Balazs Vedres, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director for the DPhil in Social Data Science, sets out why the discipline is more important ...
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Introducing the 2019 MSc Thesis Prize Winners
21 November 2019
Author: Sara Spinks
Congratulations to all our winners of the 2019 OII MSC thesis prize. It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 ...
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Women’s disadvantage: because of who they are, or what they do?
7 August 2019
Authors: Balazs Vedres, , Orsolya Vasarhelyi
Women often find themselves strongly disadvantaged in the field of software development, in particular when it comes to open source. In a study recently ...
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Integrity Statement
I conduct my research in line with the University's academic integrity code of practice.
