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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Peterborough, Ont. :
Broadview Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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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 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
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