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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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Author:   Peter Clancy
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781551115702

ISBN 10:   1551115700
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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 Millennium Overview 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 Leader Interprovincial 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 Alternative Policy 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 Context A 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 Air Canada and the Special World of Bankruptcy Protection Conclusion Appendix: Micropolitics on the World Wide Web Pulp and Paper Steel Airline Transport References Index

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Micropolitics and Canadian Business explores the internal structure of industry politics in contemporary Canada.

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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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