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This book is based on fresh and original research with 50 EU business associations and 150 of their members, drawing on literature from a wide range of disciplines, and presents some highly original synthesis. It assesses the effectiveness of EU business associations and their potential to bring value to the EU policy-making process and to their members, and lends a methodology by which they can be evaluated.The book bocates and assesses factors in the environment of EU business associations that influence their 'governabliity,' that is their ability to unify their members' intersts and to ensure they work together for the sam purpose. It then examines variation in the governability of EU business associations. From this, the reader will be able to understand the prospect for, and limitations on, the effectiveness of EU business associations, why they vary in their capacities and performance, and why they vary in their ability to bring value to their members and to the EU policy-making process.
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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
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Contents List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1
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Introduction EU business interest associations in overview Making connections: the debates to which EU business interest associations are central
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Methodology Deduc