Organisational Tensions and Competing Interests Among Spain’s Business Organisations

Abstract

This article looks at the evolution of business associationism in Spain. We follow Franz Traxler's approach, considering the map of business associations to be the result of a gradual accommodation through certain compensatory mechanisms to overcome organisational tensions and representational challenges. We discuss a series of indicators with which to analyse the adaptive character of business associationism. By way of conclusion, our analysis indicates that the CEOE's internal changes are the result of a prolonged erosion of an associational model based on a corporatist, monopolistic confederation, leading towards a more transparent organisation