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"Global business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and conflicting national businesses. Indeed, global business associations have a long history and, with accelerated globalization, further opportunities emerge for unified business action. This book fills a significant gap in the current literature, examining the pivotal role of global business associations and providing a concise and accessible overview of their different functions in a range of institutional contexts. Beginning by clarifying the concept of global business associations, the author puts their role into a historical and contemporary context in which their economic, social and political functions are sketched. Their historical origin is outlined, including the proliferation of global associations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He then moves on to explore and analyse the different types of actors, explaining key categories and their place in the organization of global business with chapters on peak associations (e.g. ICC and WEF), industry associations, alliance associations, as well as clubs and think tanks, and facilitators. Covering the history, current role and future evolution of this dynamic category of associations, this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of IPE, international relations, international organizations and global governance"--

"Global business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and conflicting national businesses. Indeed, global business associations have a long history and, with accelerated globalization, further opportunities emerge for unified business action. This book fills a significant gap in the current literature, examining the pivotal role of global business associations and providing a concise and accessible overview of their different functions in a range of institutional contexts. Beginning by clarifying the concept of global business associations, the author puts their role into a historical and contemporary context in which their economic, social and political functions are sketched. Their historical origin is outlined, including the proliferation of global associations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He then moves on to explore and analyse the different types of actors, explaining key categories and their place in the organization of global business with chapters on peak associations (e.g. ICC and WEF), industry associations, alliance associations, as well as clubs and think tanks, and facilitators. Covering the history, current role and future evolution of this dynamic category of associations, this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of IPE, international relations, international organizations and global governance"--

Within the framework of new regionalism, our paper proposes a model of potential incentives for business associations to support the regionalisation process: we propose a new analytical framework, which develops four main regional incentives at a two-fold level. At a political actor level, the organisations seek intervention in policy agendas and regional alliances. At the organisational level, the organisations aim at accessing decentralised public services, funding and some degree of institutional representation. Third, we apply this model to four Catalan organisations, three business associations (Foment del Treball Nacional, Barcelona's Chamber of Commerce, PIMEC) and one think tank (Cercle d'Economia) and we try to prove how these incentives are a trigger for their regionalisation. The case under study is the demands for a decentralised and partly privatised airport of Barcelona. The methodology used is qualititative. Adapted from the source document.

Résumé Dans le cadre du « Nouveau régionalisme » cet article expose un modèle d'« incentive potentiels » en direction des entreprises ayant vocation à soutenir le processus de régionalisation. Nous présentons ici un nouveau modèle analytique qui développe quatre « incentives » essentiels au niveau régional à deux niveaux. Au niveau politique d'abord, les entreprises cherchent à intervenir dans l'agenda politique et les alliances régionales. Au niveau structurel ensuite, elles essayent d'accéder aux services publics décentralisés, aux financements publics, voire même d'obtenir un certain niveau de représentation institutionnelle. On applique ce modèle à quatre organisations catalanes : trois entreprises (Foment del Treball Nacional, la Chambre de Commerce de Barcelone et PIMEC) et un think tank (Cercle d'Economie) et nous essayons de démontrer comment ces « incentives » constituent un déclic pour leur ancrage dans ce processus de régionalisation. Le cas observé concerne les réclamations en faveur d'un aéroport de Barcelone décentralisé et en partie privatisé. La méthodologie mise en œuvre se veut qualitative.

Section two of the act creating Tennessee's new Law Revision Commission charges that body with the duty to study and report to the next legislature on "the laws governing the organization and operation of corporations, partnerships and other forms of business and social endeavor." The study is now roughly a year old and is reportedly making good headway. Since much of our law of business organizations may therefore be changed in the near future, this Survey has been abbreviated as much as possible.

The purpose of this note is to review recent research around business associations in Latin America and provide some new theoretical points of view for studies in this area. A first assumption is that the current research of state-business interaction is weak in the analysis of the contemporary role of the nation-state. The author argues that an important reason for shortcomings of current research is that there are two concepts that are defined too narrowly, namely, institutions and legitimacy. (Iberoamericana/DÜI)

Business Interest Associations vary widely in their governability – defined as their ability to unify members' interests and ensure goal compliance. How can these variations be explained? To what extent is associational 'effectiveness' governed by factors in the external environment of an association and of its members, and to what extent can improvement programmes undertaken by associations themselves make a difference? Drawing upon interviews undertaken with 50 EU business associations in the autumn of 1998 and ongoing subsequent member interviews, analysis enables researchers to ascertain the conditions under which associations are likely to be in a position to contribute to the process of European integration. Comprehensive directory research is also used to settle a long-standing dispute about the number of 'Euro groups'.