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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.

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"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Bertrams, Kenneth
Other Authors: Coupain, Nicolas, 1978-, Homburg, Ernst, 1952-, Kurgan-van Hentenryk, G., Mioche, Philippe
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Solvay, Ernest, > 1838-1922.
Solvay Chemicals > History.
Solvay Chemicals.
Chemical industry > Belgium > History.
International business enterprises > Belgium.
Philanthropists > Belgium.
Chemical industry.
International business enterprises.
Philanthropists.
Belgium.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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