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

Rating:
Summary: a sociology of post-socialist economies
Review: Description: This volume examines the profiles of entrepreneurs and the patterns of business development in the transitioning countries. Bringing together the perspectives of all the social science disciplines, from economics and political science to sociology and anthropology, 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 effects of different economic, historical, legal, and social conditions on the conduct of independent economic initiatives.

Selected Contents:
About the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Victoria E. Bonnell and Thomas B. Gold
Part One. Profiles of Entrepreneurs
1. Joining the Winners: Self-Employment and Stratification in Post-Soviet Russia; Theodore P. Gerber
2. The Worm and the Caterpillar: The Small Private Sector in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia; Akos Ronas-Tas
3. The Yu Zuomin Phenomenon: Entrepreneurs and Politics in Rural China; Bruce Gilley
4. Security and Enforcement as Private Business: The Conversion of Russia's Power Ministries and Its Institutional Consequences; Vadim Volkov
5. The Construction of a Professional Field: Resources, Skills, and Attributes of Founders of the Market Research Sector in Poland, 1989 to 1997; Elzbieta W. Benson
6. Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China's Foreign Sector; Margaret M. Pearson

Part Two. Patterns of Entrepreneurialism
7. Entrepreneurial Action in the State Sector: The Economic Decisions of Chinese Managers; Doug Guthrie
8. Entrepreneurial Strategies and the Structure of Transaction Costs in Russian Business; Vadim Radaev
9. The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurship and Network Restructuring in East-Central Europe; Gerald A. McDermott
10. Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Success: Hungarian Small Enterprises Between 1993 and 1996; Gyorgy Lengyel
11. Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia: A Cultural Investigation of Business Practices; Alexei Yurchak
12. Marketing Civility, Civilizing the Market: Chinese Multilevel Marketing's Challenge to the State; Lyn Jeffrey
Index