Corporate Power in a Globalizing World

by Carroll, William K.

• ISBN13: 9780195438314
• ISBN10: 0195438310
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 ofCanadian 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," strategicalignments, 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 consolidationof a neoliberal policy bloc. A new foreword brings the book completely up to date.

Author Biography

William K. Carroll is professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. Among his previous books was Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism (1986), which also won the Porter Award.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Surveying the Terrains of Corporate Power	p. 1
The Organizational Terrain	p. 13
From Oligarchy to Corporate Governance: The End of the Old Boy's Network?	p. 14
Strategic Control and Intercorporate Enterprises	p. 41
Disorganized Capitalism and Transnational Finance Capital	p. 66
The Spatial Terrain	p. 87
Westward Drift: The Shifting Geography of Corporate Power	p. 88
Continental Connections: Toward a North American Corporate Elite?	p. 106
The Canadian Corporate Elite in the Global Power Structure	p. 127
The Hegemonic Terrain	p. 153
Consolidating a Neoliberal Policy Bloc	p. 154
Integrating Corporate and University Governance for a Globalizing World	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 199
Corporate Power and Neoliberal Democracy	p. 200
Internet Resources	p. 219
A Note on Method	p. 222
Corporate Names and Abbreviations	p. 226
Notes	p. 231
References	p. 260
Index	p. 275
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