The brokers of globalization: Towards a history of business associations in the international arena
本文是特刊引言，探讨国家及跨国商业利益协会在国际舞台上的历史角色，这些组织在商业史和全球史研究中常被忽视，对理解全球化中的商业政治行为有参考价值。
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.