Roundtable as Structural Influence

“His special status, aside from excellent relations with politicians, stemmed also from the fact that he led the Polish Business Roundtable, which he co-founded in the early 1990s together with Jerzy Starak and Jan Wejchert. The Council was modeled on the elite American Business Roundtable.”

“Zbigniew Brzeziński, economic advisor to US president Jimmy Carter, explained that this organization operated behind-the-scenes at private meetings and invitations were extended only to the greatest luminaries of the American economy.”