The new entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia : patterns of business development in Russia, Eastern Europe and China

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The new entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia : patterns of business development in Russia, Eastern Europe and China

Victoria E. Bonnell and Thomas B. Gold, editors

M.E. Sharpe, c2002

  • : pbk

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"This volume grew out of a Sawyer Seminar on Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurialism, and Democracy in Communist and Post-Communist Societies. In May 2000 we organized a follow-up international conference that brought together twelve scholars and a number of distinguished guests. All the papers from the conference are included in this volume."--Acknowledgments

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

While attention has been focused on high-level struggles over control of giant enterprises in China and the former Soviet bloc, a remarkable but underreported revolution has been occurring at the grass-roots level. This volume examines the profiles of entrepreneurs and the patterns of business development in the post-socialist countries Bringing together the perspectives of all the social science disciplines, from anthropology through economics and political science to sociology, the contributors identify the criteria for survival and success of independent businesses in different environments. Their findings shed light not only on the "transition from socialism" at the micro-level, but also on the conditioning effects of different economic, historical, legal, and social conditions on the conduct of independent economic initiatives.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Profiles of Entrepreneurs
  • 1: Joining the Winners
  • 2: The Worm and the Caterpillar
  • 3: The Yu Zuomin Phenomenon
  • 4: Security and Enforcement as Private Business
  • 5: The Construction of a Professional Field
  • 6: Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China's Foreign Sector
  • 2: Patterns of Entrepreneurialism
  • 7: Entrepreneurial Action in the State Sector
  • 8: Entrepreneurial Strategies and the Structure of Transaction Costs in Russian Business
  • 9: The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurship and Network Restructuring in East-Central Europe
  • 10: Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Success
  • 11: Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia
  • 12: Marketing Civility, Civilizing the Market

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