Barry E.C. Boothman is a retired professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of New Brunswick.
Boothman spells out timely lessons for modern business that may be learned from the study of failure; providing a surgical study of the Abitibi company, the public policy objectives of Ontario's political leaders; and the relationship of Canadian legal institutions with modern corporate enterprises. -- Honours and Awards Committee, OHS Fred Landon Award Corporate Cataclysm is an excellent, deeply researched, and thorough account of the rise, fall and ultimate restructuring of a Canadian behemoth, Abitibi Power & Paper. The reader has a front row seat in the author's narrative account, as he traces historical events through three tumultuous decades in Canadian history with an historian's eye for detail and a novelist's literary flair. -- Virginia Torrie, University of Manitoba * <em>Canadian Business History Association</em> *