The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

Acknowledgements

This book is the result of research carried out over the 8-year period from 1975 to 1983. I am extremely grateful to all the people in Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) who have helped me over that period gather, sort, analyse, and write up this material.

ICI is a very complex set of businesses linked together in the UK in divisional organisations with quite different organisational histories and cultures. However, even with all this cultural diversity ICI has had elements of a common company culture which at various times could be described by adjectives such as technological, stable, conservative, caring, intellectual, and in certain of its spheres of operation – open to the outside world. For all its inevitable hierarchical ...