Micropolitics and Canadian Business

Paper, Steel, and the Airlines

AvPeter Clancy

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Micropolitics and Canadian Business explores the internal structure of industry politics in contemporary Canada. This "micropolitics" approach offers a revealing set of conceptual tools and models that illuminate the politics of everyday business at the industry, firm, and policy issue levels. It builds wider contexts in which the concrete particulars of business-government relations can be explored and understood in a systematic fashion. The approach developed is a comparative one. The book examines three industries-paper, steel, and airlines-carefully chosen to represent a revealing cross-section of a vast economic field covering the primary (resource), secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary (service) sectors of the economy. In addition, one industry (pulp and paper) is primarily export-oriented, another (steel) focuses mainly on domestic sales, and the third (air transport) is strongly grounded in both.The book applies to each a common set of questions and applies a similar set of methods. Separate chapters on each industry begin with a brief review of current industry concerns, followed by a historical and structural survey of that industry. Each chapter continues with studies of two leading firms, highlighting their internal politics and their strategic orientations. Since firms are the building blocks of industry, they tell us much about the larger structures of political power. Finally, each chapter examines two significant public policy controversies whose scope extends beyond core business boundaries.Micropolitics and Canadian Business specifically analyzes three industries; however, the approach used may be applied to a much wider universe of companies and sectors. Throughout, this book furthers our understanding of the complex contexts of business politics. As such, it will be of interest to both students and practitioners of business and government relations.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-09-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442602755
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Dimensioner:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:1 g

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Peter Clancy is Professor of Political Science and an associate with Interdisciplinary Studies in Aquatic Resources (ISAR) at St. Francis Xavier University. He is the author of Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin (2011) as well as Micropolitics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel, and the Airlines (2004), and, with Anders Sandberg, Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia (2000).

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Lists of Figures, Maps, and Tables Acronyms Preface Acknowledgements SourcesChapter One: Concepts and Frameworks Exploring the Politics of FirmsThe Firm as a Political CoalitionCorporate StrategyExploring the Politics of IndustriesIndustry ClassificationMarket StructureIndustry versus BusinessProduct CycleExploring the Politics of the StatePolicy AnalysisPolicy CyclePolicy NetworksConclusionKey Terms and RelationshipsChapter Two: Pulp and Paper Politics The Industry at the MillenniumOverviewHistorical DevelopmentStructureStrategiesDomtar Inc.: A Diversified Eastern Canadian Pulp and Paper ProducerStora Forest Industries: A Foreign Subsidiary in a Distant MarketPolicy IssuesThe Regulation of Pulp Mill EffluentThe Pulp and Paper Modernization Program, 1979-1984ConclusionKey Terms and RelationshipsChapter Three: Steel Politics The Industry at the MillenniumOverviewHistorical DevelopmentStructureStrategiesSteel Company of Canada (Stelco Inc.): Profile of an Industry LeaderInterprovincial Steel Company (IPSCO Inc.): From Regional Mini-mill to MultinationalPolicy IssuesThe Sysco-Algoma Rail Dispute: Inter-firm Conflict in a Situation of Surplus CapacitySteel Trade Politics: Dumping and Safeguards, 1997-2002ConclusionKey Terms and Relationships Chapter Four: The Politics of Air Transport The Industry at the MillenniumOverviewHistorical DevelopmentStructureStrategiesAir Canada: The Life and Times of a Flag CarrierCanadian Airlines International and its Antecedents: The Private-Sector AlternativePolicy IssuesCanada-US "Open Skies": Free Trade in the Air? Onex and the Air Canada Monopoly: The Takeover/Merger Issue of 1999ConclusionKey Terms and Relationships Chapter Five: Conclusion Industries are Politically, as well as Economically, ConstitutedMultiple Fields of EngagementGlobalization's Many ShapesPolicy Networks as Crucial ConnectorsState Capacities Make a DifferenceBeware of Simple DichotomiesNever Discount the Wider Political ContextA Final WordChapter Six: Postscript: Micropolitics Marches On The Softwood Lumber Dispute and the Canfor-Slocan MergerNorth American Steel Safeguards and the WTO ChallengeAir Canada and the Special World of Bankruptcy ProtectionConclusionAppendix: Micropolitics on the World Wide Web Pulp and Paper Steel Airline Transport References Index