Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments

JÜRGEN R. GROTE holds the Marie Curie Chair in Public Policy Analysis at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He has edited a number of books, some of which include Organized Interests and the European Community (with J. Greenwood and K. Ronit), Participatory Governance: Political and Societal Implications (with B. Gbikpi, Opladen) and Governing Interests: Business Associations Facing Internationalization (with W. Streeck, J. Grote and J. Visser).ACHIM LANG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He is author of Die Evolution sektoraler Wirtschaftsverbände: Informations- und Kommunikationsverbände in Deutschland, Großbritannien und Spanien.VOLKER SCHNEIDER is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Empirical Theory of the State. He has edited several books. Amongst them are Governing Interests: Business Associations Facing Internationalization (with W. Streeck, J. Grote and J. Visser) and Private Organisations in Global Politics (with K. Ronit).

• Introduction: Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments; V.Schneider, A.Lang  & J.R.Grote SECTION 1: THEORIES AND DETERMINANTS OF ORGANIZING BUSINESS INTERESTS From Simple to Complex: An Evolutionary Sketch of Theories of Business Association; A.Lang, K.Ronit  & V.Schneider Between Politics, Economy, and Technology: The Changing Environments of Business Associations; A.Lang, V.Schneider  & R.Werle SECTION 2: BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL Persistent Divergence? Chemical Business Associations in Britain and Germany; J.R.Grote Business Associability in the United States' Chemical Industry: Private Interest Governments in Pluralist Precincts?; H-J.Schmedes Similar Responses to Similar Pressures? Adaptation Processes of British and German Business Associations in the Information and Communications Sector; A.Lang Cooperation, Competition, and Mutualism in the U.S. Information and Communications Sector; J.Bauer  & V.Schneider Complex Associations in the Dairy Sector: A Comparison of the Development in Four Countries; C.Wagemann SECTION 3: BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS AT THE EUROPEAN LEVEL Europeanized Convergence? British and German Business Associations' European Lobbying Strategies in the Formulation of REACH; A.Wonka Business Interest Associations and Corporate Lobbying: Which Role for Brussels?; M.Tenbücken Conclusion: The Complexity of Adaptation; A.Lang  & V.Schneider