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_aBELL, Stephen _929981 |
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_aA Victim of Its Own Success : _bInternationalization, Neoliberalism, and Organizational Involution at the Business Council of Australia |
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_aThousand Oaks, CA : _bSAGE Publications, _cDecember 2006 |
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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 internationalizationespecially via a willingness or capacity to forge supportive or mutualistic relations with the statehave not been realized | |
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_tPolitics & Society _g34, 4, p. 543-570 _dThousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, December 2006 _xISSN 0032-3292 _w |
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