Creating an entrepreneurs’ movement: SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland
研究了20世纪末芬兰中小企业协会如何克服集体行动问题、构建企业家运动来捍卫自身利益，并分析了不同协会的多样化策略及其益处。
When scholars study business power, they usually focus on big business.Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which comprise the vast majority of companies, are therefore excluded.The article looks at how Finnish SMEs have defended their interests in an increasingly corporatist country.It focuses especially on how they have managed to resolve the collective action problem, which prior theoretical studies have identified as a major issue in the heterogonous SME sector.We find that one association managed to build 'a movement' by underlining common threats to SMEs.We also assess the steps taken by other, smaller and less populist SME associations, arguing that that such diversity has brought some benefits, as competing associations have employed different tactics and been active in separate arenas.