Abstract

This article is the introduction to the special issue looking at organised business in the international arena to gain better understanding of the role of this group of actors. The international strategies of national business interest associations and transnational business interest associations have largely been overlooked by business historians with a focus on multinational enterprise and global historians studying international organisations and international non-governmental organisations. The article explores in broad terms the historical development of these actors, their representation in the existing literature – historical as well as political and social scientific – before turning to some new research perspectives and the contributions of the articles in the special issue to this research agenda.

摘要

本文是对国际舞台上有组织的企业的特刊的介绍，以更好地了解这组参与者的作用。国家商业利益协会和跨国商业利益协会的国际战略在很大程度上被关注跨国企业和研究国际组织和国际非政府组织的全球历史学家所忽视。本文从广义上探讨了这些参与者的历史发展、他们在现有文献中的表现——历史以及政治和社会科学——然后转向一些新的研究视角以及特刊中的文章对本研究议程的贡献.