Prof. Henning Hillmann, Ph.D.

Project Director
hillmann [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-3942
Fax: 
+49-621-181-1983
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+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
A 5, 6
Room:A 515
68159  Mannheim

Research Interests

  • Economic Sociology
  • Political and Comparative-Historical Sociology
  • Social Network Analysis

Projects

A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States

A1.1804
Origins of Bureaucratic Organization: A Comparative Study of Political Careers and Elite Reproduction

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.1815
Occupational Licensing—Between Professional Closure and Labour Market Integration
A3.1820
Immigrants’ Career Changes in German Organizations

RP9 A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States

RP9
Civic Integration through Economic Networks

Publications

Monographs

Hillmann, Henning (2021): The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime. New York: Columbia University Press. more

Journal Articles

Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2024): Identity from Symbolic Networks: The Rise of New Hollywood. Sociological Science, 11, pp. 297-339. more
Aven, Brandy, and Henning Hillmann (2018): Structural Role Complementarity in Entrepreneurial Teams. Management Science, 64, issue 12, pp. 5461-5959. more
Hillmann, Henning (2013): Economic Institutions and the State: Insights from Economic History. Annual Review of Sociology, 39, pp. 251-273. more
Hillmann, Henning, and Brandy L. Aven (2011): Fragmented Networks and entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia. American Journal of Sociology, 117, issue 2, pp. 484-538. more
Hillmann, Henning, and Christina Gathmann (2011): Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering. Journal of Economic History, 71, issue 3, pp. 730-761. more
Hillmann, Henning (2008): Localism and the Limits of Political Brokerage: Evidence from Revolutionary Vermont. American Journal of Sociology, 114, issue September, pp. 287-331. more
Hillmann, Henning (2008): Mediation in Multiple Networks: Elite Mobilization before the English Civil War. American Sociological Review, 73, issue June, pp. 426-454. more

Book Chapters

Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2021): Archival data. Pp. 337-351 in: Gianluca Manzo (Ed.) Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. more
Boehm, Timo, and Henning Hillmann (2015): A Closed Elite? Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers and the Abolition of Slave Trading. Pp. 147 - 175 in: Emily Erikson (Ed.) Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics. Bradford: Emerald Group Publishing. more

Conference Presentations

Hillmann, Henning (2023): Organization Theory Meets History. [Using Historical Methods in Management Research, Milan, March 16th to March 17th, 2023] more
Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2021): Identity from symbolic networks: the rise of New Hollywood. [Sociology Seminar, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris, December 10th, 2021] more
Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2019): Kreativer Wandel durch symbolische Netzwerke: Die Identitätskonstruktion von „New Hollywood“. [Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion „Soziologische Netzwerkforschung“, Köln, February 14th to February 15th, 2019] more
Burgdorf, Katharina (2019): The Emergence of Auteur filmmaking: Identity formation through symbolic networks. [4th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2019), Zurich, September 09th to September 11th, 2019] more
Hillmann, Henning (2019): Corsairs and Careers in Economic Networks: Evidence from Ancien Régime Saint-Malo. [4th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2019), Zurich, September 09th to September 12th, 2019] more
Hillmann, Henning (2019): Privateers of the Atlantic: Merchant Elite Networks in Saint-Malo under the Ancien Régime. [Social Research and Public Policy Seminar Series, New York University, Abu Dhabi, December 15th, 2019] more
Brandt, Philipp, and Henning Hillmann (2018): The ties that move the city: Vehicle sharing networks in New York City’s yellow cab industry. [XXXVIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, Utrecht, June 26th to July 01st, 2018] more
Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2018): Creative Revolution through Symbolic Collaboration Networks. The Case of the New Hollywood Movement. [Networks in the Global World, St. Petersburg, July 04th to July 06th, 2018] more
Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2018): Creative Revolution through Symbolic Collaboration Networks. The case of the New Hollywood Movement. [XXXVIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, Utrecht, June 26th to July 01st, 2018] more
Burgdorf, Katharina, and Henning Hillmann (2018): Kreativer Wandel durch symbolische Netzwerke: Die Entstehung von „New Hollywood“. [Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Netzwerkforschung, Darmstadt, December 03rd to December 04th, 2018] more
Hillmann, Henning (2018): Careers and Cohesion in Economic Networks. [Sociology Seminar Series, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris, December 13th, 2018] more
Hillmann, Henning (2018): Careers and Cohesion in Economic Networks: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Saint-Malo. [Area Management Seminar: BWL, Mannheim, November 21st, 2018] more
Hillmann, Henning (2018): Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data: The Case of Historical Networks. [Paris Seminar on the Analysis of Social Processes and Structures, Paris, December 14th, 2018] more
Hillmann, Henning (2016): Traders and Corsairs: Elite Networks and Privateering in Old Regime Saint-Malo. [Networks - Regulation Seminar, Sciences Po, Paris, April 15th, 2016] more
Böhm, Timo, and Henning Hillmann (2014): A Closed Elite? Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers and the Abolition of Slave Trading. [30th EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium, Rotterdam School of Management and Erasmus University, July 03rd to July 05th, 2014] more
Hillmann, Henning (2014): Author Meets Critics: Emily Erikson, Between Monopoly and Free Trade. [39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 06th to November 09th, 2014] more
Hillmann, Henning (2014): City of Corsairs: Elite Cohesion and Privateering in Old Regime Saint-Malo. [Historical Network Research Conference, Ghent University, September 15th to September 19th, 2014] more
Hillmann, Henning (2014): Returns to Structural Complementarity: Roles in Entrepreneurial Teams. [Semiar Series: Kolloquium Soziologie: Neue Entwicklungen der empirischen Sozialforschung, Department of Sociology, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, March 19th, 2014] more
Hillmann, Henning (2013): Economic Networks as Organizational Foundations of Elite Politics: Evidence from Old Regime France and England. [38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November 21st to November 24th, 2013] more
Hillmann, Henning, and Brandy L. Aven (2013): Networks and Institutions: Lessons from Entrepreneurship in Tsarist Russia. [Gastvortrag, ESSEC Business School, Paris, March 12th, 2013] more
Hillmann, Henning, and Brandy L. Aven (2013): Networks and Institutions: Lessons from Entrepreneurship in Tsarist Russia. [Vortrag bei der Research Group "Comparative Institutional Analysis", Lund University, May 29th, 2013] more
Hillmann, Henning, and Brandy L. Aven (2013): Networks and Institutions: Lessons from Entrepreneurship in Tsarist Russia. [INAS 2013: 6th Analytical Sociology Conference, Stockholm University, June 07th to June 08th, 2013] more
Hillmann, Henning, and Brandy L. Aven (2013): Structural Diversity: Entrepreneural Performance of Founding Teams in Late Imperial Russia. [29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents, Cultures and Worldviews, Montreal, July 04th to July 06th, 2013] more
Hillmann, Henning (2013): Structural Diversity: Entrepreneural Performance of Founding Teams in Late Imperial Russia. [108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 10th to August 13th, 2013] more
Aven, Brandy L., and Henning Hillmann (2012): Network Diversity of Founding Teams: Entrepreneurial Performance in Late Imperial Russia. [“Embeddedness and Beyond”, Joint Interim Conference of ISA RC02 “Economy and Society”, ESA Economic Sociology Research Network, ASA Economic Sociology Section, Moscow, October 26th to October 28th, 2012] more
Hillmann, Henning (2012): Economic Networks as Organizational Foundations of Elite Politics: Evidence from Old Regime France and England. [International Network of Analytical Sociology, Annual Meeting, New York, June 08th to June 09th, 2012] more
Hillmann, Henning, and Christina Gathmann (2011): Overseas Trade And The Decline Of Privateering. [European Historical Economics Society Conference, Dublin, September 02nd, 2011] more
Hillmann, Henning (2011): SCANCOR Workshop on Instituitional Analysis, Mannheim, Germany. [Workshop, Columbia University, April 07th, 2011] more
Hillmann, Henning (2010): Fragmented Networks and Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia. [Economic History Association, Annual Meeting “The Economic Implications of Identity”, Evanston, IL, USA, September 24th to September 26th, 2010] more
Hillmann, Henning (2010): Fragmented Networks and Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia. [European Group for Organizational Studies, 26th Colloquium on Communities and Networks in Entrepreneurship, Lisbon, Portugal, July 01st to July 03rd, 2010] more
Hillmann, Henning (2010): Relational Counterbalances to Economic Endogamy: a Theory and a Historical Example. [Academy of Management, Annual Meeting “Management and Organizational Theories in Historical Context”, Montréal, Canada, August 09th, 2010] more
Hillmann, Henning (2010): Relational Counterbalances to Economic Endogamy: a Theory and a Historical Example. [Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, USA, August 14th to August 17th, 2010] more