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Bonnell, Victoria E., and Thomas B. Gold (eds.). The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
Excerpt
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| About the Editors and Contributors | vii |
| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Introduction (Victoria E. Bonnell and Thomas B. Gold) | xiii |
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| Part One. Profiles of Entrepreneurs |
| 1. Joining the Winners: Self-Employment and Stratification in Post-Soviet
Russia
(Theodore P. Gerber) | 3 |
| 2. The Worm and the Caterpillar: The Small Private Sector in the Czech Republic,
Hungary, and Slovakia (Akos Rona-Tas) | 39 |
| 3. The Yu Zuomin Phenomenon: Entrepreneurs and Politics in Rural China (Bruce
Gilley) | 66 |
| 4. Security and Enforcement as Private Business: The Conversion of Russia's
Power Ministries and Its Institutional Consequences (Vadim Volkov) |
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| 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) | 104 |
| 6. Entrepreneurs and Democratization in China's Foreign Sector (Margaret
M. Pearson) | 130 |
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| Part Two. Patterns of Entrepreneurialism |
| 7. Entrepreneurial Action in the State Sector: The Economic Decisions of
Chinese Managers (Doug Guthrie) | 159 |
| 8. Entrepreneurial Strategies and the Structure of Transaction Costs in Russian
Business (Vadim Radaev) | 191 |
| 9. The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurship and Network Restructuring in
East-Central Europe (Gerald A. McDermott) | 214 |
| 10. Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Success: Hungarian Small Enterprises
Between 1993 and 1996 (Gyorgy Lengyel) | 256 |
| 11. Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia: A Cultural Investigation
of Business Practices (Alexei Yurchak) | 278 |
| 12. Marketing Civility, Civilizing the Market: Chinese Multilevel Marketing's
Challenge to the State (Lyn Jeffery) | 325 |
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| Index | 347 |
