Inside The Eu Business Associations

Inside the EU Business Associations Justin Greenwood INSIDE THE EU BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS Also by Justin Greenwood The Effectiveness of EU Business Associations (edited) Representing Interests in the European Union Social Partnership in the European Union (edited with Hugh Compston) Organised Business and the New Global Order (edited with Henry Jacek) Collective Action in the European Union (edited with Mark Aspinwall) European Casebook on Business Alliances Organised Interests and the European Community (edited with Jürgen Grote and Karsten Ronit) Inside the EU Business Associations Justin Greenwood © Justin Greenwood 2002 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 0–333–79376–5 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenwood, Justin Inside the EU business associations / Justin Greenwood. p. cm. “Ernst & Young Association Management.” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–333–79376–5 (cloth) 1. Trade associations—European Union Countries. I. Ernst & Young Association Management. II. Title. HD2429.E87 G74 2001 380.1⬘06⬘04—dc21 2001045864 10 11 9 10 8 7 6 09 08 07 5 4 3 2 06 05 04 03 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire 1 02 To Jill, Lucy and Anna This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 ix xi xii Introduction EU business interest associations in overview Making connections: the debates to which EU business interest associations are central 20 2 Methodology Deduc