ABSTRACT

This Handbook presents a theory of Business Interest Associations and fifteen empirical country by country case studies in the EU.

The book is organized into three main parts. Part I develops a theory of business associations which centres on firm size as the key explanatory variable. Part II consists of country studies covering the EU-15, which are written along strictly comparable lines of analysis. Part III contains the cross-nationally comparative analysis. 

The book will make essential reading for researchers working in organization studies, industrial relations, industrial sociology and political science, as well as practioners in related fields.

part |1 pages

PART I

part |1 pages

PART II

chapter 3|25 pages

Austria

chapter 4|21 pages

Belgium

chapter 5|22 pages

Denmark

chapter 6|15 pages

Finland

chapter 7|19 pages

France

chapter 8|36 pages

Germany

chapter 9|15 pages

Greece

chapter 10|12 pages

Ireland

chapter 11|26 pages

Italy

chapter 12|15 pages

Luxembourg

chapter 13|13 pages

The Netherlands

chapter 16|16 pages

Sweden

chapter 17|33 pages

United Kingdom