The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

3	ICI In Its Changing Business and Economic Context

Any attempt made to examine ICI's efforts to change their strategy, structure, technology, organisational culture, and the quality of union–management relationships over the period 1960–83 has to recognise the significant changes in economic, business, and political context which have taken place over that period.

For large sections of the chemical industry in Western industrialised countries the 1950s and 1960s will probably be looked back on as the great era of capital expansion, sales growth, and dramatic increase in plant size. This growth period, based substantially on product and process discoveries in plastics and fibres, nurtured an ethos of optimism and expansion in the chemical ...