The awakening giant : continuity and change in Imperial Chemical Industries
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The awakening giant : continuity and change in Imperial Chemical Industries
(Routledge revivals)
Routledge, 2011, c1985
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1985, this book is about Imperial Chemical Industries' response to the changing social, political, business and economic environment over the past twenty years. Using personal interviews and archival material, Andrew Pettigrew examines the evolution of business strategy, organisation structure and culture, technology and union-management relations within this corporate giant over an extended period of time. It is a compelling account, told from the inside, by one of the world's leading management and organisation theorists. The Awakening Giant has made a major practical and theoretical contribution to the study of corporate strategy, organisational analysis and change, and business history. Anyone with an interest in managing change in a large corporation will find this reissue rewarding reading.
Table of Contents
1. Research on Organisational Change and Development and Strange Change: Some Limitations 2. Context, Culture and Poltics: The Development of Strategic Change 3. ICI In Its Changing Business and Economic Context 4. Implementing Corporate Change: A Role For Organisation Development 5. The Heavy Hand of History: Business Development and Social Innovation in Agricultural Division 6. The Organic Strategy for Creating Change: Agricultural Division 7. The Enforced Strategy for Creating Change: Petrochemicals Division 8. The Change Strategy Without Political Support: Plastics Division 9. The Top-Down Strategy for Creating Development in Plastics Division 10. Strategic Change and Organisation Development at the Centre of Power 11. Processes of Strategic Change: Some Patterns 12. The Use, Impact, and Fate of Specialist Change Resources.
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