Solvay : history of a multinational family firm

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Auteurs principaux : Bertrams Kenneth (Auteur), Coupain Nicolas (Auteur), Homburg Ernst (Auteur)
Autres auteurs : Kurgan-Van Hentenryk Ginette (Directeur de publication), Mioche Philippe (Collaborateur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Solvay : history of a multinational family firm / Kenneth Bertrams,... Nicolas Coupain,... Ernst Homburg,...; coordinated by Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk, with the partnership of Philippe Mioche
Publié : Cambridge : Cambridge University press , C 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-630 p.)
Sujets :
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chemical and plastics of the future: major turning points at the start of a new century