Business History Issue 65-2, 2023, Special Issue in Brokers of the wealthy (Transnational business associations) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fbsh20/65/2.
Grace Ballor in ‘Liberalisation or protectionism for the single market? European automakers and Japanese competition, 1985–1999’’ explores how the European automobile industry lobbied for protection and influenced the European Union trade relations with Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. Read it here: Business History, 65(2), pp. 302–328, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.2025218.
‘’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century’ by Thomas David and Eichenberger focuses on the history and role in creating transnational business networks of the International Chamber of Commerce; read it in Business History, 65(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.2025219.
Who are the brokers of globalization? Pierre Eichenberger, Neil Rollings, and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl provide some answers and insights about the role of international organizations in shaping the global economy in the introduction to the Special Issue “Brokers of the Wealthy”. Read ‘The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena’, Business History, 65(2), at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2112671.
In ‘Fighting for a neoliberal Europe: Swiss business associations and the UNICE, 1970–1978’ Ludovic Iberg explores the actions and strategies that BusinessEurope, known before as Union des Industries de la Communauté Européenne (UNICE), pursued to influence economic policy in the process of European integration. Read Business History, 65(2), available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1892643.
Read more about how the ‘Interlaken Conferences’, a Swiss Federation of Commerce-initiated meetings of leaders from the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland that sought to represent the interests of different industrial groups in the context of European integration in Sabine Pitteloud’s article ‘Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a “liberal bastion” within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987’, Business History, 65(2), available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1905797
The article by Neil Rollings ‘The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century’ provides an overview and historical trends of international non-governmental organizations working in subjects such as pacificism, law and administration, labour, education, feminism, sport and tourism, religion, humanitarianism and much more. In Business History, 65(2), available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1958783.
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl’s ‘Becoming the advocate for US-based multinationals: The United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1945–1974’, explores the rise to prominence of the United States Council for International Business (founded in 1945 as part of the International Chamber of Commerce) in in defending and promoting international direct investments by American companies. Read in Business History, 65(2), pp. 284–301. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1877273.
Glenda Sluga’s afterword ‘Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in’, comments on key concepts like methodological cosmopolitanism, transnational business, business associations, integration of economic life, and more. Available at: Business History, 65(2), pp. 382–388, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2130896.
Benjamin Waterhouse, in ‘The Business Roundtable and the politics of U.S. manufacturing decline in the global 1970s’, studies how this key industry representative, the Business Roundtable, failed to create or defend a forward-thinking industrial policy, hindered by outdated analysis and a fixed political vision. Read more in Business History, 65(2), pp. 329–344. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1863949.
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