"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.
Joining the winners : self-employment and the stratification in post-Soviet Russia / Theodore P. Gerber -- The worm and the caterpillar : the small private sector in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia / Ákos Róna-Tas -- The Yu Zuomin phenomenon : entrepreneurs and politics in rural China / Bruce Gilley -- Security and enforcement as private business : the conversion of Russia's power ministries and its institutional consequences / Vadim Volkov -- The construction of a professional field : resources, skills, and attributes of founders of the market research sector in Poland, 1989 to 1997 / Elżbieta W. Benson -- Entrepreneurs and democratization in China's foreign sector / Margaret M. Pearson -- Entrepreneurial action in the state sector : the economic decisiona of Chinese managers / Doug Guthrie -- Entrepreneurial strategies and the structure of transaction costs in Russian business / Vadim Radaev -- The embedded politics of entrepreneurship and network restructuring in east-central Europe / Gerald A. McDermott -- Social capital and entrepreneurial success : Hungarian small enterprises between 1993 and 1996 / György Lengyel -- Entrepreneurial governmentality in postsocialist Russia : a cultural investigation of business practices / Alexei Yurchak -- Marketing civility, civilizing the market : Chinese multilevel marketing's challenge to the state / Lyn Jeffery.
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New entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia.
Entrepreneurship-- China, Congresses.
Entrepreneurship-- Europe, Eastern, Congresses.
Entrepreneurship-- Russia (Federation), Congresses.