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The Effectiveness of EU Business Associations

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  • © 2002

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  1. Justin Greenwood

    1. Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

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This is a unique collection of papers which brings together those who work in and with EU business associations at the very highest level with many of the leading academic authors on associations over the past two decades. It examines the factors that influence the effectiveness of EU business associations, and the prospects for associations and their members to influence these. It is designed to appeal both to analysts of debates about interest groups, collective action and European integration, and to those who work in and with EU business associations.

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Conference Issues and Themes

    1. Introduction: Conference Issues and Themes

      • Justin Greenwood, Alfons Westgeest
      Pages 1-11

  3. Understanding the Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Business Associations: a Review

      • Robert J. Bennett
      Pages 15-29

    3. European State Formation and its Impact on Associational Governance: Will Business Interest Association (BIA) Systems become Centralised at the EU Level?

      • Frans van Waarden
      Pages 30-45

    4. Governance and the Role of Associations in Economic Management: a Response from an EU Public Affairs Practitioner

      • Daniel Guéguen
      Pages 46-52

    5. The Importance of Institutions to Associations: Evidence from the Cross-National Organisation of Business Interests Project

      • Wyn Grant
      Pages 53-63

    6. Large Firms and the Transformation of EU Business Associations: a Historical Perspective

      • Maria Green Cowles
      Pages 64-78

    7. Challenges and Opportunities for Business Associations: Autonomy and Trust

      • Rudolf Beger
      Pages 79-84

    8. The Changing Environment for Trade Associations and Strategies for Adaptation

      • Mark Boléat
      Pages 85-98

  4. Change Agents and Managing Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. The Impact of the CEFIC Reforms upon the Associational Sector

      • Jean-Marie Devos
      Pages 101-108

    3. The Case of EURELECTRIC: the Impact of Deregulation upon EU Business Associations

      • Paul Bulteel
      Pages 109-114

    4. The Impact of Changing Sectoral Definition upon Associability: the Convergence of Business Interests in the Information and Communications Technology Sector in Europe

      • Oliver Blank
      Pages 115-121

    5. The Impact of Sector Change upon EU Business Associations

      • Jan J. F. Timmerman
      Pages 122-125

    6. New Models of Large Firm Collective Action

      • Christophe Lécureuil, Simon Ward
      Pages 126-130

    7. EU Business Associations: Meeting the needs of Europe’s Service Sectors?

      • Irina Michalowitz
      Pages 131-142

    8. Association Management Companies as Change Agents

      • Alfons Westgeest, Bruno Alves
      Pages 143-153

  5. Cross Sectoral and Employers Organisations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Employer vs. Product Market Associations: Different Dynamics in Associational Governance?

      • Franz Traxler
      Pages 157-170
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

    Justin Greenwood

About the editor

ROBERT BENNETT University of Cambridge RUDOLF BEGER Citigroup, and formerly Executive Secretary of ACEA, EU Automobile Constructors Association OLIVER BLANK Director General, EICTA (European Information and Communications Technology Association) MARK BOLÉAT Boléat Consulting and former Director General of the Association of British Insurers PAUL BULTEEL Secretary General, Union of the Electricity Industry WILLIAM COLEMAN McMaster University MARIA G. COWLES American University JEANMARIE DEVOS Secretary General, CEFIC (EU Chemicals Industry Association) ROY GENTRY EU Affairs Manager, The EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, Belgium HANNS GLATZ Daimler Chrysler WYN GRANT University of Warwick DAINEL GUEGUEN CLAN Associates and former Director General, COPACOGECA (EU Farmers Association) VAL HERMAN ICL Corporate Affairs JANPETER HUGES EU Government Relations, Akzo Nobel CHRISTOPHE LECUREUIL Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairss, GPC International, Brussels VANJA MARKOVIC Director, Corporate Affairs, Kraft Food International IRINA MICHALOWITZ Preussag AG Liaison Office Brussels EU Business Associations JAN TIMMERMAN Secretary General, EUROPIA (EU downstream petroleum producers association) FRANZ TRAXLER University of Vienna ZYGMUNT TYSZKIEWICZ Former Secretary General of UNICE, the Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe BASTIAN VAN APELDOORN Free University of Amsterdam FRANS VAN WAARDEN University ofUtrecht HANS WERNERMÜLLER Secretary General, UEAPME (EU Small Business Associations) ALFONS WESTGEEST Partner, Ernst & Young Association Management

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