peak organisation

peak organisation

English

Noun

peak organisation (plural peak organisations)

1. (Britain) An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area.
   • 1986, Joni Lovenduski, Women and European Politics: Contemporary Feminism and Public Policy, page 172,

     But comparisons at peak organisation level are useful as a kind of aggregate data. In addition, such organisations have often given a lead to member unions on the treatment of women, and the position of women unionists in peak organisations may well serve as an example to member unions.

   • 1997, James Elliott, Tourism: Politics and Public Sector Management, Routledge, UK, page 187,

     A peak organisation seeks to represent all the companies within that industry. There are several peak organisations in the tourism industry.

   • 2005, Alfred C. Aman, Jr, Globalisation, Democracy, and the Need for a New Administrative Law, Michael Likosky (editor), Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights, Brill Academic Publishers, UK, page 289,

     Peak organisations are not at all typical in the U.S., but the economic discourse that increasingly dominates much of regulation, and certainly, the raison d′etre for privatisation, narrows the discourse in such a way as to make most groups sound essentially the same. There may be no peak organisation, per se, but the discourse is so similar that this may be a distinction without a difference.

Synonyms

• peak body