Transcript Management 2CE - Gary Dessler, Frederick A. Starke

BG
2
471.23
Fall 2015
Bruce Duggan
Providence University College
To do
read by today
 Brooks & Stritch
• ch 2
read by this Fri
 Baron
• ch 1
read by next Tue
 Baron
• ch 2
 case
• Personal Watercraft
read by next Fri
 sim
• Morris Electrohome
discuss next Fri
 case
• Personal Watercraft
Project Options
 help start rural transit along highway 75
 set up a Manitoba Environmental Industries
Association student chapter at Prov
 become involved in Manitoba trucking industry policy
development
 host an all-candidates debate
 help set up a car salvage operation for Garden Hill
First Nation
 help set up a recycling system for northern First
Nations communities
 ?
What’s Cdn Business Like?
& how did it get this way?
 Brookes & Stritch
» ch 2
Cdn Bus/Gov History
talk
 laissez faire
assumptions
 the major role of gov’t is to provide the
conditions for economic growth
Cdn Bus/Gov History
staples
 fish
 fur
 lumber
business
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export focus
in raw state
foreign capital
external events
Cdn Bus/Gov History
staples
 fish
 fur
 lumber
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protection
support
monopoly
“the little guy”
development serves commerce
government’s role
Cdn Bus/Gov History
staples
 fish
 fur
 lumber
• a single elite
• government is an arena for
business conflict
• population not needed
relationship
Cdn Bus/Gov History
staples
 fish
 fur
 lumber
 wheat
• population needed
• but still
 elites
 monopolies vs. “little guy”
 protection
 support
 raw material export
 external events
Cdn Bus/Gov History
staples
arteries
 waterways
 railroads
 roads
still
 elites
 monopolies vs. “little guy”
 protection
 support
 raw material export
 external events
Cdn Bus/Gov History
railroads
priorities
manufacturing
farmers
consumers
the West
Cdn Bus/Gov History
uneven playing field
 grievances
 political engagement
• formerly
 politics a conflict between business interests
• now sometimes
 became a conflict with business interests
 business demanded protection by gov’t
from labour unrest
Cdn Bus/Gov History
depression
 not unique in
• depth
25%
0%
inflation/deflation
• duration
-25%
1800
 unique
• industrialized, urban society
 unable to withstand shock
 result
• “The Positive State”
1900
2000
Cdn Bus/Gov History
“The Positive State”
• Keynes
• C. D. Howe
• crown corporations
• social welfare
 result
• no collapse after the war
 gov’t role in economy legitimated
 ideology available to support practice
Cdn Bus/Gov History
“The Positive State”
 expected to foster
• full employment
• stability
• growth
• low inflation
• climate for investment
• satisfaction with capitalism
Cdn Bus/Gov History
“The Positive State”
 connect to world economy
• trade agreements
 defense
 Autopac
 NAFTA
• IMF
• World Bank
• G8
expected to
cushion shocks
Cdn Bus/Gov History
deterioration?
 good critique
• external climate harsher
• never that good
• not that bad now
• interests vary
Interests
Government attempts to
reconcile diverging interests
owners
employees
consumers
inflation
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deflation
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high GDP growth
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low interest rates
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low unemployment
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monopolies
even wealth dist
rising dollar
Interests
HOWEVER: we’re all owners,
employees and consumers
owners
employees
consumers
inflation
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deflation
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high GDP growth
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low interest rates
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low unemployment
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monopolies
even wealth dist
rising dollar
Case
Personal Watercraft
» pg 63
Baron 1
breadth
 scientific discovery
 new understandings
 institutional change
 interest group activity
 moral concerns
Baron 1
OK
 anticipation
 better
 issue life cycle
 specific examples
 worse
 4 i’s
• Issues
• Interests
• Institutions
• Information
OK Anticipation
early
shape agenda
“routine time”
go looking
damage control
“crisis time”
when forced
late
time
OK Anticipation
early
shape agenda
low tech
mature industry
gov’t reg
small player
“routine time”
go looking
damage control
when forced
“crisis time”
late
time
OK Anticipation
early
shape agenda
high tech
new industry
little gov’t reg
major player
“routine time”
go looking
damage control
“crisis time”
when forced
late
time
 4 I’s
 Issues
• basic unit of analysis
 Interests
• includes “the public”
 Institutions
• includes “public sentiment”
 Information
• what about beliefs?
firm impact
enforcement
administration
legislation
interest group formation
issue identification
 Issue Life Cycle
time
 Specific Examples
What’s it like to be in an industry?
 never ends
 unpredictable
 industry struggle
• autos vs. tires
• autos vs. gas
• autos vs. lawyers
• domestic vs. import
pg 6-8
 Specific Examples
but biased
 “Special interest groups pursue issues
because…” pg 8
 “…[drug] expenditures reflect importance of
drugs as health care therapies…”
pg 18
 Specific Examples
How different in the US?
 court mediated
 multiple fronts
 media more aggressive
 more political actors in government
 money