Global lobbies for a global economy: The creation of the Spanish Institute of Family Firms in international perspective

Paloma Fernandez Perez and Nuria Puig

Business History, 2009, vol. 51, issue 5, 712-733

Abstract: Globalisation has encouraged the creation of global lobbies which promote the interests of their associated members in international institutions. However, despite their increased importance in the global economy, scholarly literature has so far offered scarce data or analysis about these lobbies. This article examines the creation of global lobbies for large family firms over the last two decades, and the strong connection established in this period between collective action, education and internationalisation in the strategies of such firms. The establishment of the Spanish Institute of Family Firms is considered to be an early European adaptation of pioneering North American lobbies and a model for other European and Latin American associations of large family firms.

Keywords: family enterprise; lobby; Spanish Institute of Family Firms; globalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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