This book the product of a four year project by a dozen researchs, provides a panorama of this jolting chnage. It examines the fate of major business groups the changing role of family firms, the transformation of the automotive industry, the incasion of the megastores, the saga of the moblie phonethe success stories of the Crown Property Bureau and Charoen liquor rmpire, the impact on business and local polites in the provinces the exploits of Thai ,multinationals oversears and the changing interplay between business capital and political power