Let’s coordinate! The reinforcement of a ‘liberal bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987

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ID8420338
AuthorsSabine Pitteloud (0000-0002-9251-4804, University of Geneva, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume65
Issue2
Pages345-365
Publication date2023-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076791.2021.1905797
OpenAlexW3157292870
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited24

This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. It therefore contributes to the literature dealing with business interest associations’ (BIAs) international alliances, and to the growing corpus analysing BIAs’ political strategies in tackling the 1970s social unrest and economic crisis. Thanks to archival sources from the Swiss Federation of Commerce and Industry, this article examines the calculated efforts by Interlaken participants to secure a ‘liberal bastion’ of European industrial federations that could impose its views within other official international BIAs. By improving coordination, the participants sought to defend common liberal economic principles and to fight against adverse economic policies such as protectionism and state intervention in the economy

Corporate governance · Economics · International trade · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Protectionism · State (computer science · Unrest · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · Law · Public Administration

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