Industrial research corporate strategy

Jeffrey L. Sturchio. Chemistry and Corporate Strategy at Du Pont, Research Management. 27 (1984) 10-18. Source for transformation from explosives to nonexplosives and for history of industrial labs. 

John K. Smith, Developing a Discipline Chemical Engineering Research at Du Pont, in David A. Hounshell and J. K. Smith, Science and Corporate Strategy Du Pont R D, 1902-1980, Chapter 14, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988 (kindly made available in advance of publication) Charles M. A. Stine, Chemical Engineering in Modem Industry, Trans. AIChE 21,45-54 (1928). 

Within the ACCA, there is a strong commitment to examining environmental and social issues in so far as they impact on the accounting profession, industry and the finance sector. It has an active research function covering all aspects of business, small business finance, corporate strategy, financial/environmental reporting, information technology, fiscal, social and ethical issues. 

The best example is the study of research at Du Pont. See David A. Hounshell and John K. Smith, Jr., Science and Corporate Strategy. Du Pont R D, 1902-1980 (Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge University Press, 1988). For the German case see John Joseph Beer, Coal tar dye manufacture and the origins of the modern industrial research laboratory, Isis, 49 (1958), 123-131 Georg Meyer-Thurow, The... 

Carsten Reinhardt, An instrument of corporate strategy The central research laboratory at BASF, 1868-1890, in Ernst Homburg, Harm SchrOter, and Anthony S. Travis, eds. The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914 Industrial Growth, Pollution and Professionalization Dox tQcht Kluwer, 1998). 

John Kenly Smith, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is co-author with David A. Hounshell of Science and Corporate Strategy DuPont R D 1902-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and numerous articles on the history of chemical technology and industrial research. He is currently working on the history of chemical catalysis. 

Ernest B. Benger, The Organization of Industrial Research, lEC 22 (June 1930) 572-77 Hounshell and Smith, Science and Corporate Strategy, 300-312. 

ROWLAND S J, LANDOS M, CALUNAN R B, ALLAN G L, READ P, MIFSUD C, NIXON M, BOYD p and TULLY p (2007) Development of a health management strategy for the silver perch aquaculture industry. Final Report to the Fisheries Research Development Corporation on Projects 2000/067 and 2004/089, Fisheries Final Report Series No. 93. Cronulla NSW Department of Primary Industries. 

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as viewed by different participants in the Finnish labour market. One senior specialist from each of the Confederation of Finnish Industries, the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions SAK and the Finnish Consumers Association was requested to complete an online questionnaire. The aim of this study was to elucidate how the different participants view various aspects of CSR. Further study aims were to gather the kinds of the responses to the research questions which could be used as a reference base for future development. The main research question was How does CSR become the best practice in business activities The sub-questions were How does CSR come to represent the best practices in the day-to-day activities of (1) business strategy of companies, (2) financiers and shareholders, (3) customers and consumers, (4) employees of the companies and (5) communities and authorities CSR is a strategic process of mutual commitment between a corporation and its stakeholders. Its purpose is to create a social contract to maximize the welfare of all partners concerned. CSR is also an important way to stimulate proactive behaviour and to improve to health, environment and safety strategies of the companies. CSR provides a company with the ability to recognize and respond effectively to social challenges. 

Casson, Mark, Satwinder Singh, 1993, Corporate Research and Development Strategies The Influence of Firm, Industry and Country Factors on the Decentralisation of R D, R D Management 23 (2), 91-107. 

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