Inside the EU Business Associations

By: J. Greenwood

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Hardcover | 5 December 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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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List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
EU business interest associations in overview	p. 3
Making connections: the debates to which EU business interest associations are central	p. 20
Methodology	p. 29
Deductive or inductive methodologies?	p. 29
Data collection	p. 32
Governability Factors in EU Business Associations	p. 45
Degree of specialism in the product chain	p. 45
'issue-niche' organisations	p. 47
Membership density	p. 48
Member/non-member activity in Brussels; counter-lobbying by members	p. 49
Involvement with cross-sectoral organisations	p. 52
Specific regulatory regime activity and/or seeking regulation; self-regulation	p. 53
Association used for lobbying	p. 57
Association used by members for information; transaction-cost savings; trust between members; degree of EU identity in global trade	p. 57
Other incentives, for example access to other organisations	p. 64
Autonomy from members; threat of exit	p. 64
European or national markets	p. 69
Collective cloak	p. 70
Common enemy	p. 71
Extent of competition within sector; overcapacity; degree of concentration; disruptive MandA activity; degree of firms of similar size; technology divisions	p. 72
Proneness to lowest-common-denominator policy positions	p. 77
Membership for benefits of membership; extent of evaluation undertaken; membership to avoid costs of non-membership	p. 80
Results and Analysis: Domain-Based Associations	p. 83
Factors weighted '5'	p. 99
Factors weighted '4'	p. 105
Factors weighted '3'	p. 108
Factors weighted '2'	p. 109
Factors weighted '1'	p. 111
Review of weightings	p. 112
Business-Wide Associations	p. 115
Unice	p. 118
Amcham-EU: 'The EU Committee'	p. 125
The ERT	p. 130
Eurochambres	p. 135
Ueapme	p. 138
Conclusions	p. 144
Conclusions	p. 149
True to type: the special character of EU business associations	p. 149
Explaining variations in the governability of EU business associations	p. 155
The methodological legacy	p. 158
Members of EU Business Associations--Interviews	p. 160
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 168
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