Solvay : history of a multinational family firm /
"Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out to other chemicals, plast...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
Ã2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. The pioneering years (1863-1914) : the quest for leadership and the first stages of the internationalization / Nicolas Coupain ; First steps : when vision and reality meet
- A multinational pioneer
- Reaching a dominant position
- Labor organization, social policy, and societal vision
- The consolidation of power
- Conclusion of part I
- Part II. The years of crisis (1914-1950) : the making and unmaking of international alliances / Kenneth Bertrams ; The multiple fronts of World War I
- From the ashes, 1918-1922
- The making of international alliances
- Family and finance through the crisis
- The electrolytic industry
- Facing war again
- Solvay's second postwar period
- Conclusion of part 2
- Part III. The era of diversification and globalization (1950-2012) / Ernst Homburg ; Growth through diversification : the successful entry into plastics and peroxides
- Enlarging scale and scope : backward and forward integration in the 1960s and 1970s
- Solvay goes public : financial and organizational limits of a family firm
- The long and winding road to Deer Park : Solvay's return to the United States
- From bulk to brains : Solvay's entry into pharmacy and the life sciences
- Solvay in the age of globalization
- Towards sustainable product leadership
- Chemicals and plastics of the future : major turning points at the start of a new century
- Conclusion of part 3.