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Andrew Tucker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Trade Associations as Industry Reputation Agents: A Model of Reputational Trust
Business and Politics, 2008Co-Authors: Andrew TuckerAbstract:Scholars have started to focus on the ways in which firms manage their reputations through collective action. Collective reputation management is most often carried out through Trade Associations (TAs). But what do these TAs actually do? How do they further their members' interests with stakeholders like regulators, industry financial analysts, employees, suppliers, and the media? Informed by a rich set of 43 qualitative interviews with the Trade Associations (TAs) representing the UK's 24 largest business sectors, the paper builds a model of the reputational incentives that drives the dynamic relationship between Trade Associations, firms and multiple stakeholder groups. The paper's preliminary empirical research coupled with the conceptual model provides five directions for future research.
Francesca Carnevali - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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social capital and Trade Associations in america c 1860 1914 a microhistory approach
The Economic History Review, 2011Co-Authors: Francesca CarnevaliAbstract:This microhistory explores the activities of one of the many Trade Associations created in the nineteenth century in the US. Qualitative evidence is used to engage with the concepts of competition, cooperation, and social capital. This article explores the reasons why cooperation emerged between competing economic agents, as an intended outcome of associational activity. It is argued that Trade Associations are forms of voluntary association consciously established to achieve economic aims and create networks of sociability. These, in turn, generated social capital used by economic agents to avoid ruinous competition and to capture political, economic, and social resources.
Kazutaka Kogi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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development of interactive workplace improvement programs in collaboration with Trade Associations of small scale industries
Industrial Health, 2006Co-Authors: Akiyoshi Ito, Kazuhiro Sakai, Kazutaka KogiAbstract:Serial participatory action programs for reducing occupational safety and health risks were undertaken to know the types of support suited for small-scale industries. Working groups were formed with workplace people and occupational safety and health experts. It was agreed to develop an action-oriented strategy focusing on improving both work environment and productivity by making low-cost improvements through group work. Many workplace improvements achieved by participating enterprises and the group work procedures taken were analyzed. As supporting tools for effectively implementing the workplace improvement action programs, we developed action checklists according to industry and workplace implementation guides. Collections of local good examples also served as part of these support tools. These experiences show that keys to the sustainable action in small-scale industries are: (1) mobilization of the industry-wise network by Trade Associations, (2) an output-oriented strategy based on interactive group work and (3) the effective use of support tools such as low-cost action checklists and group work methods.
Christian Felzensztein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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exporting firm s engagement with Trade Associations insights from chile
International Business Review, 2019Co-Authors: Jose Brache, Christian FelzenszteinAbstract:Abstract This study addresses the effects of the firm’s level of engagement with Trade Associations located at the company’s export market on export performance. It analyzes firm-level data from a South American emerging economy, Chile. Results show that a stronger engagement with Trade Associations located at the company’s export market has a positive effect on export performance. Environmental uncertainty on customer needs is confirmed as an export performance barrier, but unexpectedly, this obstacle only diminishes in a negligible factor as the level of engagement with Trade Associations located at the firm’s export market increases. This study contributes to the international management literature by investigating the direct and moderating effects of overseas Trade Associations on the firm’s export performance, and by scrutinizing on the distinctions among the cooperation determinants of local networks and networks situated at the firm’s export market. Practical implications are discussed.
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Exporting firm’s engagement with Trade Associations: Insights from Chile
International Business Review, 2019Co-Authors: Jose Brache, Christian FelzenszteinAbstract:Abstract This study addresses the effects of the firm’s level of engagement with Trade Associations located at the company’s export market on export performance. It analyzes firm-level data from a South American emerging economy, Chile. Results show that a stronger engagement with Trade Associations located at the company’s export market has a positive effect on export performance. Environmental uncertainty on customer needs is confirmed as an export performance barrier, but unexpectedly, this obstacle only diminishes in a negligible factor as the level of engagement with Trade Associations located at the firm’s export market increases. This study contributes to the international management literature by investigating the direct and moderating effects of overseas Trade Associations on the firm’s export performance, and by scrutinizing on the distinctions among the cooperation determinants of local networks and networks situated at the firm’s export market. Practical implications are discussed.
Juliet Roper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strategic schizophrenia: The strategic use of Trade Associations in New Zealand
Journal of Communication Management, 2005Co-Authors: Eva Collins, Juliet RoperAbstract:This paper draws on and extends corporate political strategic theory through examination of how Trade Associations were used in reaction to ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in New Zealand. It is well established that firms can influence the legislative and regulatory process either individually and/or collectively via Trade Associations. The findings of this research reinforce current theory by demonstrating that firms use their membership in Trade Associations to gain expertise they lack, and to leverage their influence through collective advocacy. Large firms were found to be more likely to engage in collective action than small firms, and collective action was more likely on high profile issues than issues that were not receiving significant public and political scrutiny. The findings, however, also necessitated an extension of existing theory to explain firms’ response when faced with competing stakeholder demands. When the social and economic objectives of a firm diverged, Trade Associations were utilised in the dual and contradictory strategies of protecting a firm’s positive environmental image while simultaneously advocating less stringent environmental regulatory outcomes.
