The Effectiveness of Eu Business Associations

ISBN-13: 9780333964125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 263 str.

Greenwood, J.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Issues and Themes PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE ENVIRONMENT Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Business Associations: a review European State Formation and its Impact on Associational Governance: Will Business Interest Association (BIA) systems become centralized at the EU-level The Role of Associations in Economic Management - A response from a practitioner The Importance of Institutions to Associations: Evidence from the Cross-National Organisation of Business Interests Project Large Firms and the Transformation of EU Business Associations: A Historical Perspective Challenges and Opportunities for Business Associations: Autonomy and Trust The changing environment for trade associations and strategy for adoption PART 2: CHANGE AGENTS AND MANAGING CHANGE The Impact of the CEFIC reforms upon the Associational Sector The Case of EURELECTRIC: The Impact of Deregulation upon EU Business Associations The Impact of Changing Sectoral Definition upon Associability: the Convergence of Business Interests in the Information and Communications Technology Sector in Europe The Impact of Sector Change upon EU Business Associations New Models of Large Firm Collective Action EU-Business Associations: meeting the needs of Europe's Service Sectors? Association Management companies as Change Agents PART 3: CROSS SECTORAL AND EMPLOYERS ORGANISATIONS Employer v Product Market Associations: Different Dynamics in Associational Governance? National Members and Their EU Associations How SMEs can influence the Effectiveness of European Business The European Round Table of Industrialists: Still a Unique Player? PART 4: CONCLUSIONS Globalization and the Future of Associational Governance Conclusions

O autorze

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 of Utrecht HANS WERNERMÜLLER Secretary General, UEAPME (EU Small Business Associations) ALFONS WESTGEEST Partner, Ernst & Young Association Management