Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments

1. Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments: Introduction
Volker Schneider, Achim Lang, Jürgen R. Grote

Part I. Theories and Determinants of Organizing Business Interests

2. From Simple to Complex: An Evolutionary Sketch of Theories of Business Association
Achim Lang, Karsten Ronit, Volker Schneider

3. Between Politics, Economy, and Technology: The Changing Environments of Business Associations
Achim Lang, Volker Schneider, Raymund Werle

Part II. Business Associations at the National Level

4. Persistent Divergence? Chemical Business Associations in Britain and Germany
Jürgen R. Grote

5. Business Associability in the US Chemical Industry: Private Interest Governments in Pluralist Precincts?
Hans-Jörg Schmedes

6. Similar Responses to Similar Pressures? Adaptation Processes of British and German Business Associations in the Information and Communications Sector
Achim Lang

7. Cooperation, Competition, and Mutualism in the US Information and Communications Sector
Johannes M. Bauer, Volker Schneider

8. Complex Associations in the Dairy Sector: A Comparison of Development in Four Countries
Claudius Wagemann

Part III. Business Associations at the European Level

9. Europeanized Convergence? British and German Business Associations’ European Lobbying Strategies in the Formulation of REACH
Arndt Wonka

10. Business Interest Associations and Corporate Lobbying: Which Role for Brussels?
Marc Tenbücken

11. The Complexity of Adaptation: Conclusions
Achim Lang, Volker Schneider

Keywords: Business and Management, Organization, European Union Politics, Political Science, Sociology, general, International Relations