A Victim of Its Own Success: Internationalization, Neoliberalism, and Organizational Involution at the Business Council of Australia

Stephen Bell
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Stephen Bell: School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia, stephen.bell@uq.edu.au

Politics & Society, 2006, vol. 34, issue 4, 543-570

Abstract: The 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.

Keywords: business associations; globalization; organizational effectiveness; Business Council of Australia; globalization; neoliberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329206293643

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