CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PART ONE: THE APPROACH -- 1. China, Vietnam, Entrepreneurship and Social Change -- 1.1. Emergence of a new, economic elite -- 1.2. Entrepreneurship and social change -- 1.3. Research design and structure of this book -- 1.4. China and Vietnam: commonalities and differences -- 2. Privatization processes in China and Vietnam - precondition for the emerging of new entrepreneurs -- 2.1. Privatization initiatives on the part of peasants through collective action and limited fence-breaking -- 2.2. Development and state of bottom-up privatization -- 3. Entrepreneurs as new economic and social actors -- 3.1. Entrepreneur as a category -- 3.2. Entrepreneurs - a deviant group? -- 3.3. The discussion about entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam -- 4. Entrepreneurs as a social group: class, middle strata or strategic group? -- 4.1. Entrepreneur as a class -- 4.2. Entrepreneur as a "Middle class" likewise "Middle strata" -- 4.3. Entrepreneurs as a strategic group -- PART TWO: THE EMPIRICAL WORK: THE PROFILE OF THE STRATEGIC GROUP ENTREPRENEURS -- 1. Choice of the research localities, methodological procedures and frameworks in the regions studied -- 1.1. Choice of areas to be surveyed and methodological procedures -- 1.2. The framework conditions in the research areas -- 1.3. The Development of the Private Sectors in the Regions Surveyed -- 2. Texture, Differentiation and Strategic Capital -- 2.1. Composition and Starting Conditions of the Interviewed Entrepreneurs -- 3. Relations with local government -- 3.1. Assessments of local policies by entrepreneurs -- 3.2. Negative impacts of the local bureaucracy on private sector companies -- 3.3. Associations representing the interests of entrepreneurs -- 3.4. Opportunities which entrepreneurs have to influence local politics -- 4. Cognitive patterns, interests and preferences.

4.1. Social morality and social obligations -- 4.2. The entrepreneurs' goals in life -- 4.3. Attitudes to the market economy -- 5. Political and participative basic attitudes -- 5.1. Comprehension of politics -- 5.2. Attitudes to political participation -- 5.3. Attitudes concerning the role of the Communist Party and of the state in the reconstruction towards market economy -- PART THREE: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- 1. Summary of the most important conclusions: Group profile of the entrepreneurs -- 2. The transformative potential of entrepreneurs as the precondition for strategy formation -- 3. Entrepreneurs as social group -- 3.1. The societal volume of capital as strategy capital -- 4. Summary: Entrepreneurs as a "strategic group" -- 4.1. Group cohesion -- 4.2. Group aims -- 4.3. Law, legislation and organized anarchy: strategic groups as players in the legal domain -- 4.4. Conclusion: Entrepreneurs as strategic group and political change -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.