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Tables of Contents for Private Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
 
PART ONE: THE APPROACH
China, Vietnam, Entrepreneurship and Social Change
1
10
Emergence of a new, economic elite
1
2
Entrepreneurship and social change
3
4
Research design and structure of this book
7
1
China and Vietnam: commonalities and differences
8
3
Privatization processes in China and Vietnam -- precondition for the emerging of new entrepreneurs
11
34
Privatization initiatives on the part of peasants through collective action and limited fence-breaking
11
6
Development and state of bottom-up privatization
17
28
China
18
10
Vietnam
28
17
Entrepreneurs as new economic and social actors
45
15
Entrepreneur as a category
46
4
Entrepreneurs -- a deviant group?
50
3
The discussion about entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam
53
7
The Chinese discussion
53
5
The Vietnamese discussion
58
2
Entrepreneurs as a social group: class, middle strata or strategic group?
60
17
Entrepreneur as a class
60
2
Entrepreneur as a ``Middle class'' likewise ``Middle strata''
62
8
Entrepreneurs as a strategic group
70
7
PART TWO: THE EMPIRICAL WORK: THE PROFILE OF THE STRATEGIC GROUP ENTREPRENEURS
Choice of the research localities, methodological procedures and frameworks in the regions studied
77
27
Choice of areas to be surveyed and methodological procedures
77
7
The survey in China
79
1
The survey in Vietnam
80
3
Practical research problems
83
1
Cooperation partners and institutional surveys
84
1
The framework conditions in the research areas
84
12
Framework conditions in the research areas of China
85
2
Framework conditions in the research areas of Vietnam
87
2
Framework conditions for the development of the private sector
89
1
China
89
3
Vietnam
92
4
The Development of the Private Sectors in the Regions Surveyed
96
8
Chinese survey areas
96
3
Vietnamese survey areas
99
5
Texture, Differentiation and Strategic Capital
104
65
Composition and Starting Conditions of the Interviewed Entrepreneurs
104
65
Age structure
104
1
Familial and social origins
105
10
Prerequisites for founding an enterprise: material factors
115
5
Prerequisites for founding a company: human capital
120
1
China
120
8
Vietnam
128
2
Preconditions for founding companies: social and strategic capital in the form of social relationships and networks
130
1
Guanxi as social capital
130
4
Networks as strategic group capital
134
21
Motivation to found a company
155
14
Relations with local government
169
60
Assessments of local policies by entrepreneurs
169
11
Negative impacts of the local bureaucracy on private sector companies
180
10
Associations representing the interests of entrepreneurs
190
23
Opportunities which entrepreneurs have to influence local politics
213
16
Cognitive patterns, interests and preferences
229
56
Social morality and social obligations
229
37
Money and social morality
229
4
Social obligations: entrepreneur and wage-dependent employees
233
19
Social obligations: entrepreneur and government
252
6
Attitudes towards income differences
258
8
The entrepreneurs' goals in life
266
10
Attitudes to the market economy
276
9
Political and participative basic attitudes
285
28
Comprehension of politics
285
1
Attitudes to political participation
286
14
Attitudes concerning the role of the Communist Party and of the state in the reconstruction towards market economy
300
13
PART THREE: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Summary of the most important conclusions: Group profile of the entrepreneurs
313
10
The transformative potential of entrepreneurs as the precondition for strategy formation
323
7
Entrepreneurs as social group
330
10
The societal volume of capital as strategy capital
330
10
Summary: Entrepreneurs as a ``strategic group''
340
25
Group cohesion
347
2
Group aims
349
2
Law, legislation and organized anarchy: strategic groups as players in the legal domain
351
8
Conclusion: Entrepreneurs as strategic group and political change
359
6
References
365
26
Index
391