The authors analyze Solvay's 150-year history, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.
The authors analyze Solvay's 150-year history, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.
Kenneth Bertrams is Research Fellow at the National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium and Lecturer in History at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. The Pioneering Years (1863-1914): The Quest for a Leadership and the First Stages of the Internationalization: 1. First steps: when vision and reality meet 2. A multinational pioneer 3. Reaching a dominant position 4. Labor organization, social policy, and societal vision 5. The consolidation of power 6. Conclusion of Part I Part II. The Years of Crisis (1914-50): The Making and Unmaking of International Alliances: 7. The multiple fronts of World War One 8. From ashes, 1918-22 9. The making of international alliances 10. Family and finance through the crisis 11. The electrolytic industry 12. Facing war again 13. Solvay's second post-war 14. Conclusion of Part II Part III. The Era of Diversification and Globalization (1950-2012): 15. Growth through diversification: the successful entry into plastics and peroxides 16. Enlarging scale and scope: backward and forward integration in the 1960s and 1970s 17. Solvay goes public: financial and organizational limits of a family firm 18. The long and winding road to Deer Park: Solvay's return to the United States 19. From bulk to brains: Solvay's entry into pharmacy and the life sciences 20. Solvay in the age of globalization 21. Towards sustainable product-leadership 22. Chemical and plastics of the future: major turning points at the start of a new century 23. Conclusion of Part III.
Part I. The Pioneering Years (1863-1914): The Quest for a Leadership and the First Stages of the Internationalization: 1. First steps: when vision and reality meet 2. A multinational pioneer 3. Reaching a dominant position 4. Labor organization, social policy, and societal vision 5. The consolidation of power 6. Conclusion of Part I Part II. The Years of Crisis (1914-50): The Making and Unmaking of International Alliances: 7. The multiple fronts of World War One 8. From ashes, 1918-22 9. The making of international alliances 10. Family and finance through the crisis 11. The electrolytic industry 12. Facing war again 13. Solvay's second post-war 14. Conclusion of Part II Part III. The Era of Diversification and Globalization (1950-2012): 15. Growth through diversification: the successful entry into plastics and peroxides 16. Enlarging scale and scope: backward and forward integration in the 1960s and 1970s 17. Solvay goes public: financial and organizational limits of a family firm 18. The long and winding road to Deer Park: Solvay's return to the United States 19. From bulk to brains: Solvay's entry into pharmacy and the life sciences 20. Solvay in the age of globalization 21. Towards sustainable product-leadership 22. Chemical and plastics of the future: major turning points at the start of a new century 23. Conclusion of Part III.
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