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Evans de Carvalho, Ana Maria. "Sectoral Varieties of Adjustment: The Response of Portuguese Services Sectors to European Integration" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59832_index.html>

Evans de Carvalho, A. , 2004-09-02 "Sectoral Varieties of Adjustment: The Response of Portuguese Services Sectors to European Integration" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59832_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The paper examines the conditions under which small firms in traditional services sectors are able to modernise, become competitive, and secure their relative economic position in the face of the heightening competition associated with regional economic integration. It shows that traditional market players can succeed in confronting the pressures of economic opening by organising at the sectoral level and building up and sustaining collective structures and strategy that induce modernisation at the unit level and collective market regulation. This strategy of sectoral defense relies on internal and external group politics. In essence, it is a process led by a business association, where the latter acts as an “agent of innovation” rather than a mere “rent-seeker”, replacing state and market in the governance of sectoral adjustment. The paper analyses the institutions, strategies, and processes that make a successful “politics of sectoral defense”.

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