Research

Selected Publications

Burgdorf, K. and Hillmann, H. (2024). Identity from symbolic networks: the rise of New Hollywood. Sociological Science, 11, 297–339.
Aven, B. and Hillmann, H. (2018). Structural role complementarity in entrepreneurial teams. Management Science, 64, 5688-5704.
Hillmann, H. (2013). Economic Institutions and the State: Insights from Economic History. Annual Review of Sociology, 39, 251–273.
Hillmann, H. and Aven, B. (2011). Fragmented networks and entrepreneurship in late imperial Russia. American Journal of Sociology : AJS, 117, 484–538.
Hillmann, H. and Gathmann, C. (2011). Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering. The Journal of Economic History, 71, 730–761.
Hillmann, H. (2008). Localism and the Limits of Political Brokerage: Evidence from Revolutionary Vermont. American Journal of Sociology : AJS, 114, 287–331.
Hillmann, H. (2008). Mediation in Multiple Networks: Elite Mobilization before the English Civil War. American Sociological Review : ASR, 73, 426–454.

Böhm, T. and Hillmann, H. (2015). A closed elite? Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers and the abolition of slave trading. In Chartering capitalism : organizing markets, states, and publics (S. 147–175). Bradford [u. a.]: Emerald Group Publ.