A Study On The Evolution Analysis Of Shanxi Wenzhou Coal Boss From The Perspective Of Social Network And Market Network

The formation of the entrepreneur class is a highlight of China’s reform and opening in the past 40 years.Attracting great attention,Wenzhou Coal Boss in Shanxi Province is a typical representative of this group,which is worth studying.Based on the dual angles of social and market network,this paper takes more than 20 typical cases of Wenzhou Coal Bosses in Shanxi Province,including four in-depth interviews,as the research object,and analyses the formation and evolution of Wenzhou Coal Bosses in Shanxi Province explicitly through multi-case method.This paper divides their evolution into four stages: incubation stage,growth stage,fast development stage and conflict transition stage.During the incubation period,Wenzhou Coal Boss in Shanxi relied on the early market relationship to lay a basic foundation for the development of Wenzhou people’s social network in Shanxi.In the growth period,relying on the inherent social network,Wenzhou people who has great market potential gradually migrated to Shanxi and gathered together.When it comes to the period of fast development,with the powerful internal and external social relations,the trust-based social relations network plays a much more vital role than contract-based market relations network.While the period of conflict transition,the social relationship network based on trust broke down because of lacking the guarantee of contract-based market relations network.Many Wenzhou coal bosses in Shanxi could not retreat in time.Only a small number of Wenzhou businessmen could surive and maintain the development of Shanxi coal industry.Through this research,we can owe the formation of Chinese entrepreneurs class to the reform and opening up,which is the most fundamental reason.The formation of a local entrepreneur cluster is inseparable from the local traditional economic activities.The developed social network is the bond of the group formation.Only by timely and moderately transformation of social into market relations can theemergence of the entrepreneur cluster be achieved.