Entrepreneurs as Strategic Groups: A Study on the Social and Political Functions of Chinese Private Entrepreneurs

Author: Thomas Heberle
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: This book studies the development of the private entrepreneur class in China from the perspective of the "strategic group" theory, elucidating the ways entrepreneurs promote social and political change. The focus of this research is not economic factors but strategic, social, and political behavior, such as the strategic and social capital of private entrepreneurs, their relationships with local governments, their evaluations of moral attitudes and life goals, political participation and political views, group composition and group behavior, group goals and their realization, and so on. This study is the result of a Germany-China-Vietnam research project implemented in three provinces of China (Zhejiang, Henan, and Gansu) and Vietnam between 1996 and 1997.