New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe and China

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Profiles of Entrepreneurs -- 1. Joining the Winners: Self-Employment and Stratification in Post-Soviet Russia -- 2. The Worm and the Caterpillar: The Small Private Sector in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia -- 3. The Yu Zuomin Phenomenon: Entrepreneurs and Politics in Rural China -- 4. Security and Enforcement as Private Business: The Conversion of Russia's Power Ministries and Its Institutional Consequences -- 5. The Construction of a Professional Field: Resources, Skills, and Attributes of Founders of the Market Research Sector in Poland, 1989 to 1997 -- 6. Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China's Foreign Sector -- Part Two. Patterns of Entrepreneurialism -- 7. Entrepreneurial Action in the State Sector: The Economic Decisions of Chinese Managers -- 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: Hungarian Small Enterprises Between 1993 and 1996 -- 11. Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia: A Cultural Investigation of Business Practices -- 12. Marketing Civility, Civilizing the Market: Chinese Multilevel Marketing's Challenge to the State -- Index.