The Effectiveness of EU Business Associations - Tapa dura

This is a unique collection of papers which brings together those who work in and with EU business associations at the very highest level with many of the leading academic authors on associations over the past two decades. It examines the factors that influence the effectiveness of EU business associations, and the prospects for associations and their members to influence these. It is designed to appeal both to analysts of debates about interest groups, collective action and European integration, and to those who work in and with EU business associations.

ROBERT BENNETT University of Cambridge RUDOLF BEGER Citigroup, and formerly Executive Secretary of ACEA, EU Automobile Constructors Association OLIVER BLANK Director General, EICTA (European Information and Communications Technology Association) MARK BOLÉAT Boléat Consulting and former Director General of the Association of British Insurers PAUL BULTEEL Secretary General, Union of the Electricity Industry WILLIAM COLEMAN McMaster University MARIA G. COWLES American University JEANMARIE DEVOS Secretary General, CEFIC (EU Chemicals Industry Association) ROY GENTRY EU Affairs Manager, The EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, Belgium HANNS GLATZ Daimler Chrysler WYN GRANT University of Warwick DAINEL GUEGUEN CLAN Associates and former Director General, COPACOGECA (EU Farmers Association) VAL HERMAN ICL Corporate Affairs JANPETER HUGES EU Government Relations, Akzo Nobel CHRISTOPHE LECUREUIL Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairss, GPC International, Brussels VANJA MARKOVIC Director, Corporate Affairs, Kraft Food International IRINA MICHALOWITZ Preussag AG Liaison Office Brussels EU Business Associations JAN TIMMERMAN Secretary General, EUROPIA (EU downstream petroleum producers association) FRANZ TRAXLER University of Vienna ZYGMUNT TYSZKIEWICZ Former Secretary General of UNICE, the Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe BASTIAN VAN APELDOORN Free University of Amsterdam FRANS VAN WAARDEN University of Utrecht HANS WERNERMÜLLER Secretary General, UEAPME (EU Small Business Associations) ALFONS WESTGEEST Partner, Ernst & Young Association Management