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2nd ITEPE Conference

The role of competition in European and international integration

Copenhagen Business SchoolDepartment of Business and PoliticsKilen, Kilevej 14

2000 Frederiksberg (Room K146)19- 20 June 2014

Outline

Competition and competitiveness have become a catchword which is no longer restricted to the

economy but also related to the provision of public services. Some consider competition as the

panacea in the light of the current economic crisis and public budget constraints. Others fear a

strengthening of the neo-liberal agenda and a further hollowing out of the state. On analytical

grounds, however, little attention has been paid so far to the societal implications of competition

as the most important organizing principle in the capitalist world (Cini and McGowan, 1998: 2).

What is lacking is a sociology of competition. The conference addresses this shortcoming. It

intends to facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue between legal scholars, sociologists and political

scientists as well as between empirically and theoretically oriented research. Its overall aim is to

set a new research agenda which strengthens a critical and sociological understanding of the role

of competition and comparison in transnationalising society.

For more information (including the list of abstracts) visit www.itepe.eu.

For registrationcontact Assistant Professor Eva Hartmann (eh.dbp@cbs.dk) before Thursday,the 11th June 2014.

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Programme

Wednesday 18th June

20:00 Welcome gathering at the hotel bar.

Thursday 19th June

9 :00 9 :15 Registration & Coffee9 :15h -9 :30 Introduction Eva Hartmann

The societal dimension of competition

9:30 10:20 Poul F. Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School)Context Construction through Competition: The Prerogative of Public Power, IntermediaryInstitutions and the Purpose of Competition PolicyDiscussant: Dietmar Wetzel

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 11:40 Bob Jessop (Lancaster University)The course, contradictions, and consequences of extending competition as amode of (meta-) governanceDiscussant: Christoph Hermann

11:40 -12:30 Ngai-Ling Sum (Lancaster University)A Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness, Competition andCompetition LawDiscussant: Eva Hartmann

12:30 13:30 Lunch

13:30 14:20 Tobias Werron (University of Lucerne)Why do we believe in competition? A historical-sociological view ofcompetition as an institutionalized ideologyDiscussant: Poul F. Kjaer

Competition and the European Integration

14:20-15.10 Malcolm Ross (University of Sussex)Promoting solidarity: from public services to a European model of competition?Discussant: Christiane Mossin

15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 16:30 Wolf Sauter (Tilburg Law School)

EU competition and public services: building blocks or persistent irritant?Discussant: Malcolm Ross

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16:30 17:20 Christoph Hermann (University of Vienna)

Internationalization, liberalization and the precarization of work in Europeanpostal marketsDiscussant: Wolf Sauter

17:20-17:40 First conclusions

19 :00 Conference Dinner:Restaurant Frederiks Have Restaurant Smallegade 41 2000Frederiksberg

Friday 20th June

8 :45 Departure from the hotel9:00 9:10 Coffee and Registration

9 :10 - 10:00 Eva Hartmann (Copenhagen Business School)European integration and competition: the professional complex/project nexus re-visitedDiscussant: Bob Jessop

10:00 - 10 :50 Christiane Mossin (Copenhagen Business School)Competition unfolded as a constellation of heterogenous logics. Tensionsbetween the economic and the legal subject seen through the prism of EU rightsDiscussant: Judith Clifton

10:50 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 12:00 Dietmar Wetzel (University of Berne)Academic Education and Power - Competition as a mode of integrationin the EU?Discussant: Tobias Werron

12 :00 12 :50 Lunch

Consequences for the nation-state: Towards self-debilitation?

12:50-13:40 Judith Clifton (Universidad de Cantabria)Beyond Hollowing Out: The Self-Debilitating StateDiscussant: Ngai-Ling Sum

13:40-14:00 Next steps for the publication

14:00 End of the conference