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100 1 _aBELL, Stephen
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245 1 0 _aA Victim of Its Own Success :
_bInternationalization, Neoliberalism, and Organizational Involution at the Business Council of Australia
260 _aThousand Oaks, CA :
_bSAGE Publications,
_cDecember 2006
520 3 _aThe focus of this article is on the Business Council of Australia (BCA), an association of the CEOs of the 100 or so largest companies operating in Australia. Since its inception the BCA has been an influential supporter of largely successful efforts to neoliberalize and internationalize the Australian economy. Running in parallel with these developments, however, the BCA has moved from being a "somewhat strong" to a relatively weak policy organization. This article argues these two trends are causally related. Neoliberal-inspired economic restructuring and economic internationalization have weakened the "logic of membership" and the "logic of influence" of the BCA, leading to a process of organizational involution. Furthermore, potential offsets to what I describe as the organizational predations of neoliberalism and internationalization—especially via a willingness or capacity to forge supportive or mutualistic relations with the state—have not been realized
773 0 8 _tPolitics & Society
_g34, 4, p. 543-570
_dThousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, December 2006
_xISSN 0032-3292
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