Mirroring Canadian Industrial Policy: Strategy Formation at Dominion Textile from 1873 to 1990

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Title
Mirroring Canadian Industrial Policy: Strategy Formation at Dominion Textile from 1873 to 1990
Abstract
The authors track the strategies of what they label a "quintessentially Canadian company," the Montreal-based Dominion Textile Inc., through most of its history, from 1873 to 1990. Created entrepreneurially, but soon consolidated politically, Dominion Textile became the dominant player in the textile manufacturing industry in Canada, faltering bureaucratically before it renewed itself competitively. The authors argue that the company mirrored Canadian industrial policy remarkably closely throughout its life, through the states of "getting there" politically, "staying there" positionally, and "keeping there" competitively. Overall, they conclude, the company was remarkably deliberate in its strategic behaviour, yet that deliberateness exhibited emergent consequences. The company slowly collapsed over the 1990s, and closed in 1998.
Publication
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration
Volume
Vol. 13
Issue
no. 1
Pages
46-64
Date
March 1996
Language
en
Citation
Austin, Barbara J., and Henry Mintzberg. “Mirroring Canadian Industrial Policy: Strategy Formation at Dominion Textile from 1873 to 1990.” Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l’Administration Vol. 13, no. 1 (March 1996): 46–64.
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