Amm, Joachim2014-03-142014-03-141990-12-06etd-11012008-063742http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45429This thesis presents a theoretical conceptualization and operationalization for a forthcoming empirical study of the adaptiveness of business associations, labor unions, and environmental organizations to social change since 1960. These three types of interest organizations are selected because they are particularly likely to have become targets of increased popular demands for environmental protection, a value change that has constituted one of the most important aspects of social change during the last three decades.vi, 148 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn Copyrightenvironmental protectionLD5655.V855 1990.A556Organizational changePressure groups -- United StatesSocial changeThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11012008-063742/