Inhalt: In Lieu of an Introduction: Big Structures, Large Processes and Huge Comparisons - A Frame of Interpretation: F. Sattler / C. Boyer, European Economic Elites between a New Spirit of Capitalism and the Erosion of State Socialism - Economic Elites in the Twentieth Century: Overviews from Western and Eastern Perspectives: D. Ziegler, Economic Elites in the Twentieth Century: Germany and its Western Neighbours - Á. Pogany, Hungarian Economic Elites in the Twentieth Century - Formations and Profiles in Western Europe: Between Cohesion and Fragmentation: H. Joly, Die bemerkenswerte Persistenz der staatlichen grands corps bei der Rekrutierung der Wirtschaftseliten in Frankreich - F. Lavista, Business Elites in Italy and the Failure of the National Planning Policies as a Vision of Development - M. Loff, Elites and Economic Modernization in Portugal (1945-1995): Authoritarianism, Revolution and Liberalism - T. David / S. Ginalski / F. Rebmann / G. Schnyder, The Swiss Business Elite between 1980-2000: Declining Cohesion, Changing Educational Profile and Growing Internationalization - Formations and Profiles in Eastern Europe: Between Erosion and Transformation: Z. Varga, The Agrarian Elite in Hungary before and after the Political Transition - G. Lengyel, Social Factors Conditioning the Recruitment of the Hungarian Economic Elite at the End of the 1990s - M. Boldorf, Elitentausch? Die betrieblichen Führungskräfte in Ostdeutschland seit den 1980er Jahren - L. Macakova / E. Kubu, Transformation of Economic Elites after the Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia - Challenges and Responses: Strategies during the Third Industrial Revolution: M. Schramm, Wirtschaftseliten und Wissenstransfer in der DDR und Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-1990: Beispiele aus den "wissensbasierten" Industrien - K. C. Priemel, Dispiriting Decade. Structural Crisis, Managerial Failure, and the Fall of the House of Flick, 1975-1985 - C. Dirninger, Der politische Unternehmer. Ein österreichisches Beispiel - T. Gulbrandsen, Private Business Lobbying in a Corporatist Society. The Case of Norway - Change of Values, Interpretations and Legitimations: P. Hübner, "Sozialistische Manager" und betriebliche Sozialpolitik in der DDR und Polen. Anmerkungen zu einem Vergleich - K. Golata, The Problems of a Business Elites'' Image and Reputation. The Example of Poland - A. Vonderau, Enterprising self. Neue soziale Differenzierung und kulturelle Selbstdeutungen der Wirtschaftselite in Litauen - On the Way towards a Transnational Business Elite?: M. Leimgruber, Bringing Private Insurance Back In. The Geneva Association as a Transnational Insurance Think Tank (1973-2000s) - L. Sklair, The Transnational Capitalist Class. Theory and Empirical Research