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Author Clancy, Peter, 1949-

Title Micropolitics and Canadian business : paper, steel, and the airlines / Peter Clancy
Published Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents Contents -- Lists of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Chapter One: Concepts and Frameworks -- Exploring the Politics of Firms -- The Firm as a Political Coalition -- Corporate Strategy -- Exploring the Politics of Industries -- Industry Classification -- Market Structure -- Industry versus Business -- Product Cycle -- Exploring the Politics of the State -- Policy Analysis -- Policy Cycle -- Policy Networks -- Conclusion -- Key Terms and Relationships -- Chapter Two: Pulp and Paper Politics
The Industry at the MillenniumOverview -- Historical Development -- Structure -- Strategies -- Domtar Inc.: A Diversified Eastern Canadian Pulp and Paper Producer -- Stora Forest Industries: A Foreign Subsidiary in a Distant Market -- Policy Issues -- The Regulation of Pulp Mill Effluent -- The Pulp and Paper Modernization Program, 1979-1984 -- Conclusion -- Key Terms and Relationships -- Chapter Three: Steel Politics -- The Industry at the Millennium -- Overview -- Historical Development -- Structure -- Strategies
Steel Company of Canada (Stelco Inc.): Profile of an Industry LeaderInterprovincial Steel Company (IPSCO Inc.): From Regional Mini-mill to Multinational -- Policy Issues -- The Sysco-Algoma Rail Dispute: Inter-firm Conflict in a Situation of Surplus Capacity -- Steel Trade Politics: Dumping and Safeguards, 1997-2002 -- Conclusion -- Key Terms and Relationships -- Chapter Four: The Politics of Air Transport -- The Industry at the Millennium -- Overview -- Historical Development -- Structure -- Strategies -- Air Canada: The Life and Times of a Flag Carrier
Canadian Airlines International and its Antecedents: The Private-Sector AlternativePolicy Issues -- Canada-US Open Skies: Free Trade in the Air? -- Onex and the Air Canada Monopoly: The Takeover/ Merger Issue of 1999 -- Conclusion -- Key Terms and Relationships -- Chapter Five: Conclusion -- Industries are Politically, as well as Economically, Constituted -- Multiple Fields of Engagement -- Globalization's Many Shapes -- Policy Networks as Crucial Connectors -- State Capacities Make a Difference -- Beware of Simple Dichotomies
Never Discount the Wider Political ContextA Final Word -- Chapter Six: Postscript: Micropolitics Marches On -- The Softwood Lumber Dispute and the Canfor-Slocan Merger -- North American Steel Safeguards and the WTO Challenge -- Steel Safeguards and Canada -- Air Canada and the Special World of Bankruptcy Protection -- Conclusion -- Appendix Micropolitics on the Worldwide Web -- Pulp and Paper -- Steel -- Airline Transport -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index
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Subject Wood-pulp industry -- Canada
Paper industry -- Canada
Steel industry and trade -- Canada
Airlines -- Canada
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Airlines
Paper industry
Steel industry and trade
Wood-pulp industry
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442602755
1442602759
Other Titles Micropolitics & Canadian business