Private entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam : social and political functioning of strategic groups / by Thomas Heberer ; translated by Timothy J. Gluckman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heberer, Thomas.

Series:

China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 4.

China studies, 0928-5520 ; v. 4

Standardized Title:

Unternehmer als strategische Gruppen. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship--China.

Entrepreneurship.

Businesspeople.

China.

Entrepreneurship--Vietnam.

Privatization--China.

Privatization.

Privatization--Vietnam.

Vietnam.

Businesspeople--China.

Businesspeople--Vietnam.

Physical Description:

vii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Contents:

1. China, Vietnam, Entrepreneurship and Social Change 1

1.1. Emergence of a new, economic elite 1

1.2. Entrepreneurship and social change 3

1.3. Research design and structure of this book 7

1.4. China and Vietnam: commonalities and differences 8

2. Privatization processes in China and Vietnam

precondition for the emerging of new entrepreneurs 11

2.1. Privatization initiatives on the part of peasants through collective action and limited fence-breaking 11

2.2. Development and state of bottom-up privatization 17

2.2.1. China 18

2.2.2. Vietnam 28

3. Entrepreneurs as new economic and social actors 45

3.1. Entrepreneur as a category 46

3.2. Entrepreneurs

a deviant group? 50

3.3. The discussion about entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam 53

3.3.1. The Chinese discussion 53

3.3.2. The Vietnamese discussion 58

4. Entrepreneurs as a social group: class, middle strata or strategic group? 60

4.1. Entrepreneur as a class 60

4.2. Entrepreneur as a "Middle class" likewise "Middle strata" 62

4.3. Entrepreneurs as a strategic group 70

Part 2 The Empirical Work: The Profile of the Strategic Group Entrepreneurs

1. Choice of the research localities, methodological procedures and frameworks in the regions studied 77

1.1. Choice of areas to be surveyed and methodological procedures 77

1.1.1. The survey in China 79

1.1.2. The survey in Vietnam 80

1.1.3. Practical research problems 83

1.1.4. Cooperation partners and institutional surveys 84

1.2. The framework conditions in the research areas 84

1.2.1. Framework conditions in the research areas of China 85

1.2.2. Framework conditions in the research areas of Vietnam 87

1.2.3. Framework conditions for the development of the private sector 89

1.2.3.1. China 89

1.2.3.2. Vietnam 92

1.3. The Development of the Private Sectors in the Regions Surveyed 96

1.3.1. Chinese survey areas 96

1.3.2. Vietnamese survey areas 99

2. Texture, Differentiation and Strategic Capital 104

2.1. Composition and Starting Conditions of the Interviewed Entrepreneurs 104

2.1.1. Age structure 104

2.1.2. Familial and social origins 105

2.1.3. Prerequisites for founding an enterprise: material factors 115

2.1.4. Prerequisites for founding a company: human capital 120

2.1.4.1. China 120

2.1.4.2. Vietnam 128

2.1.5. Preconditions for founding companies: social und strategic capital in the form of social relationships and networks 130

2.1.5.1. Guanxi as social capital 130

2.1.5.2. Networks as strategic group capital 134

2.1.6. Motivation to found a company 155

3. Relations with local government 169

3.1. Assessments of local policies by entrepreneurs 169

3.2. Negative impacts of the local bureaucracy on private sector companies 180

3.3. Associations representing the interests of entrepreneurs 190

3.4. Opportunities which entrepreneurs have to influence local politics 213

4. Cognitive patterns, interests and preferences 229

4.1. Social morality and social obligations 229

4.1.1. Money and social morality 229

4.1.2. Social obligations: entrepreneur and wage-dependent employees 233

4.1.3. Social obligations: entrepreneur and government 252

4.1.4. Attitudes towards income differences 258

4.2. The entrepreneurs' goals in life 266

4.3. Attitudes to the market economy 276

5. Political and participative basic attitudes 285

5.1. Comprehension of politics 285

5.2. Attitudes to political participation 286

5.3. Attitudes concerning the role of the Communist Party and of the state in the reconstruction towards market economy 300

Part 3 Theoretical Implications and Conclusions

1. Summary of the most important conclusions: Group profile of the entrepreneurs 313

2. The transformative potential of entrepreneurs as the precondition for strategy formation 323

3. Entrepreneurs as social group 330

3.1. The societal volume of capital as strategy capital 330

4. Summary: Entrepreneurs as a "strategic group" 340

4.1. Group cohesion 347

4.2. Group aims 349

4.3. Law, legislation and organized anarchy: strategic groups as players in the legal domain 351

4.4. Conclusion: Entrepreneurs as strategic group and political change 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-390) and index.

ISBN:

9004128573

OCLC:

52203186