Continuity or change in business representation in Britain? An assessment of the Heseltine initiatives of the 1990s

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 998-1015

  Greaves, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; COMPETITIVENESS; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY; PRODUCTIVITY; STATE ROLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65949093944     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0746r     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Beer S, 1965 Modern British Politics (Faber and Faber, London)
2. Bennett R J, 1995, "The logic of local business associations: an analysis of voluntary chambers of commerce" Journal of Public Policy 15 251-279
3. Bennett R, 1997, "The relation between government and business associations in Britain: an evaluation of recent developments" Journal of Policy Studies 18 5-33
4. Bennett R J, Payne D, 2000 Local and Regional Economic Development: Renegotiating Power Under Labour (Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants)
5. Bennett R, Robson P, 2004, "Support services for SMEs: does the 'franchisee' make a difference to the Business Link offer?" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 22 859-880
6. Boleat M, 2000, "Models of trade association co-operation", Trade Association Forum, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DU
7. Boleat M, 2003, "Managing trade associations", Trade Association Forum, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DU
8. Cabinet Office, 1996, "Sector challenge: bidding guidance", October, Cabinet Office, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ
9. Cabinet Office, 2004, "Code of practice on written consultations", Cabinet Office, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ
10. Cawson A, 1982 Corporatism and Welfare (Heinemann, London)
11. Cawson A, 1985, "Introduction", in Organised Interests and the State Ed. A Cawson (Sage, London) pp 1-21
12. Cox G, Lowe P, Winter M, 1990, "Agricultural regulation and the politics of milk production", in Corporatism and Accountability Eds C Crouch, R Dore (Clarendon Press, Oxford) pp 169-198
13. Devlin Commission, 1972, "Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Industrial and Commercial Representation", Association of British Chambers of Commerce/Confederation of British Industry, available from the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry
14. DTI, 1996 A Best Practice Guide for the Model Trade Association (Department of Trade and Industry, London)
15. Grant W, 1987, "Introduction", in Business Interests, Organizational Development and Private Interest Government Ed. W Grant (de Gruyter, Berlin) pp 1-17
16. Grant W, 1991, "Continuity and change in British business associations", in Organising Business for War Eds W Grant, J Nekkers, F van Waarden (Berg, Oxford) pp 23-46
17. Grant W, 1993 Business and Politics in Britain second edition (Macmillan, London)
18. Grant W, 2000 Pressure Groups and British Politics (Macmillan, London)
19. Grant W, 2001, "From 'insider' politics to direct action" Parliamentary Affairs 54 337-348
20. Heseltine M, 1987 Where There's a Will (Hutchinson, London)
21. Heseltine M, 1993, "Speech on trade associations", CBI, 17 June, Department of Trade and Industry, London
22. Heseltine M, 2000 Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography (Hodder and Stoughton, London)
23. HM Government, 1995 Competitiveness: Forging Ahead Cm 2867 (The Stationery Office, London), available at http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/caboff/compet96/ pii.htm
24. HM Government, 1996 Competitiveness: Helping Business to Win: Consultation on a New Approach to Business Support (Cabinet Office, London)
25. Jenkin M, 1981 British Industry and the North Sea (Macmillan, London)
26. Jordan G, 1981, "Iron triangles, woolly corporatism and elastic nets: images of the policy process" Journal of Public Policy 1 95-123
27. Lynn L H, McKeown T J, 1988, "Trade associations in America and Japan", American Enterprise Institute, 1150 Seventeenth Street, Washington, DC 20036
28. Macdonald A, 2001, "The business of representation", Trade Association Forum, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DU
29. Marquand D, 1988 The Unprincipled Society (Fontana, London)
30. Mitchell N, 1990, "The decentralisation of business in Britain" Journal of Politics 52 622-637
31. Olson M, 1971 The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups 2nd edition (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
32. Parker S, 1984, "Corporatism and business interest associations: The relationship between the Confederation of British Industry and its member associations with special reference to the BRIMEC experiment", MA thesis, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry
33. Schmitter P, Lanzalaco L, 1989, "Regions and the organisation of business interests", in Regionalism, Business Interests and Public Policy Eds W Coleman, H Jacek (Sage, London) pp 201-230
34. Schmitter S, Streeck W, 1999, "The organisation of business interests: studying the associative action of business in advanced industrial societies", discussion paper, http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/dp97-99_de.html
35. Streeck W, Schmitter P C (Eds), 1985 Private Interest Government: Beyond Market and State (Sage, London)
36. van Schendelen M P C M (Ed.), 1993 National, Public and Private EC Lobbying (Dartmouth Publishing, Aldershot, Hants)