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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455724603321

Titolo

The new entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia : patterns of business development in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China / / [edited by] Victoria E. Bonnell and Thomas B. Gold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

0-7656-0776-X

1-315-69936-2

0-7656-1160-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BonnellVictoria E

GoldThomas B

Disciplina

338.04

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - Russia (Federation)

Entrepreneurship - Europe, Eastern

Entrepreneurship - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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 twelwe scholars and a number of distinguished guests. All the papers from the conference are included in this volume"--Acknowledgments.

First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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