The Effectiveness of EU Business Associations

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 14
1. Introduction: Conference Issues and Themes......Page 17
Part I. Understanding the Environment......Page 29
2. Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Business Associations: a Review......Page 31
3. European State Formation and its Impact on Associational Governance: Will Business Interest Association (BIA) Systems become Centralised at the EU Level?......Page 46
4. Governance and the Role of Associations in Economic Management: a Response from an EU Public Affairs Practitioner......Page 62
5. The Importance of Institutions to Associations: Evidence from the Cross-National Organisation of Business Interests Project......Page 69
6. Large Firms and the Transformation of EU Business Associations: a Historical Perspective......Page 80
7. Challenges and Opportunities for Business Associations: Autonomy and Trust......Page 95
8. The Changing Environment for Trade Associations and Strategies for Adaptation......Page 101
Part II. Change Agents and Managing Change......Page 115
9. The Impact of the CEFIC Reforms upon the Associational Sector......Page 117
10. The Case of EURELECTRIC: the Impact of Deregulation upon EU Business Associations......Page 125
11. The Impact of Changing Sectoral Definition upon Associability: the Convergence of Business Interests in the Information and Communications Technology Sector in Europe......Page 131
12. The Impact of Sector Change upon EU Business Associations......Page 138
13. New Models of Large Firm Collective Action......Page 142
14. EU Business Associations: Meeting the needs of Europe\'s Service Sectors?......Page 147
15. Association Management Companies as Change Agents......Page 159
Part III. Cross Sectoral and Employers Organisations......Page 171
16. Employer vs. Product Market Associations: Different Dynamics in Associational Governance?......Page 173
17. National Members and their EU Associations......Page 187
18. How SMEs can Influence the Effectiveness of European Business......Page 198
19. The European Round Table of Industrialists: Still a Unique Player?......Page 210
Part IV. Conclusions......Page 223
20. Globalisation and the Future of Associational Governance......Page 225
21. Conclusions......Page 239
Bibliography......Page 250
Index......Page 259