Recent scholarship on local governance in Britain has examined the power of the business elite, while remaining insensitive to the role of businesspeople (the actors) and their representative organizations. The study is focused on how new political knowledge and identities are constructed by the...

In this paper we seek to exploit some of the insights of a strategic - relational approach in examining the response of business interests to the newly devolved and regionalised governance context in Britain. In the analysis, the focus is directed particularly at the changing context within...