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Winner of the Porter Prize, this classic study thoroughly profiles the corporate elite of late twentieth-century Canada, within a global context. It traces the fundamental changes in the structure of corporate power in Canada since the mid-1970s and highlights such key issues as the place of Canadian corporate power in global context, the westward shift of Canadian corporate power, and the emergence of a North American corporate elite. The book opens with a survey of corporate power and discusses the evolution from oligarchy to corporate governance. The majority of the chapters then profile what the author calls ""particularities of time and place""-for example, corporate organization and ""disorganized capitalism,"" strategic alignments, the westward shift, continental connections, the evolution of a North American corporate elite, and the Canadian corporate elite in the context of global power structures. The final segment highlights corporate and university governance in the era of neoliberalism and the consolidation of a neoliberal policy bloc. A new foreword brings the book completely up to date.

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Author:   William Carroll (Professor, Sociology Department, University of Victoria)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Imprint:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780195438314

ISBN 10:   0195438310
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   08 July 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Wynford Edition ; PART I: SURVEYING THE TERRAIN OF CORPORATE POWER ; Introduction ; 1. From Oligarchy to Corporate Governance: The End of the Old Boys' Network? ; PART II: PARTICULARITIES OF TIME AND PLACE ; 2. Corporate Organization and Disorganized Capitalism ; 3. Ties That Bind: Enterprises and Strategic Alignments ; 4. Westward Ho: Corporate Power's Changing Spatial Organization ; 5. Continental Connections: Toward North American Corporate Elite? ; 6. The Canadian Corporate Elite in the Global Power Structure ; PART III: EXTENDING THE REACH OF CORPORATE BUSINESS ; 7. Corporate and University Governance in the Era of Neoliberalism ; 8. Consolidating a Neoliberal Policy Bloc ; PART IV: CONCLUSIONS ; Appendix A: A Note on Methods ; Appendix B: Annotated List of Related Web Sites ; Bibliography ; Index

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William K. Carroll is one of Canada's top sociologists. Carroll's main areas of interest are political economy, corporate power structures, social movements, theory and ideology, and Canadian society.

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