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Micropolitics and Canadian Business : Paper, Steel, and the Airlines /
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 lev...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Peterborough, Ont. :
Broadview Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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""; ""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""