By Paul Marginson, Keith Sisson

This publication explores the effect of the one ecu marketplace (SEM) at the associations of commercial family members and their results after ten years of operation. The authors examine competing hypotheses: "Europeanization" and "Americanization", and locate that either are actual as much as some degree. They exhibit how the SEM is bringing a couple of degree of cross-border convergence among businesses inside of sectors while at the same time resulting in a better within-country variety among businesses in numerous sectors. in response to the consequences generated through the UK's financial and Social learn Council's 'One Europe or Several?' software, this publication presents a multi-disciplinary and actually cross-national process facing the either the speculation and perform of business relatives within the SEM.