BFGoodrich: tradition and transformation, 1870 - 1995
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, BFGoodrich made rubber goods ranging from fire hoses to automobile tires and, in so doing, became one of the largest and most important rubber manufacturers in the world. The history of the BFGoodrich Company has been a complex blend of transform...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, BFGoodrich made rubber goods ranging from fire hoses to automobile tires and, in so doing, became one of the largest and most important rubber manufacturers in the world. The history of the BFGoodrich Company has been a complex blend of transformations and traditions, as this study of the company's history from the firm's founding in 1870 through its 125th anniversary in 1995 reveals. Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr, two leading business historians, place the BFGoodrich story in the full context of the industries and the economic environments in which the firm operated. In what is more than an internal study, Blackford and Kerr examine BFGoodrich's strategies for growth in light of technological developments, changes in labor relations, and modifications in government-business relations that constantly reshaped how the firm and its competitors conducted business. Granted full access to corporate records and given full cooperation in interviews, with no restrictions placed on their writing, the authors provide an almost unprecedented look at how a major American institution evolved over more than a century. |
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TRADITION AND
TRANSFORMATION
1870—1995
MANSEL G BLACKFORD
K AUSTIN KERR
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
COLUMBUS
CONTENTS
PREFACE ix
Introduction: Exploring the History of the
BFGoodrich Company i
1 Goodrich and the Akron Elite: Entrepreneurial
Opportunities in Rubber, 1870-1907 9
2 The Growth of the Tire Industry: Diversification
in Rubber Products, 1908-1918 44
3 Expansion in Rubber Making, Relative Decline
in Tire Making, 1919-1929 77
4 Coping with the Great Depression, 1930-1939 111
5 The Crises of World War II: Planting the Seeds
of Transformation 144
6 Strategies for a Peacetime Economy:
The Traditional Company, 1945-1959 191
7 Building the Goodrich Chemical Company,
1945-1971 230
8 A Troubled Goodrich: Traditional Products and
Corporate Strategy, 1957-1971 261
9 New Management, Old Problems, 1972-1979 297
10 The Restructuring of BFGoodrich, 1980-1988 351
11 Tradition and Transformation: BFGoodrich
in the 1990s 387
APPENDIX A: Financial Data, 1881 -1994 411
APPENDIX B: Chairmen of the Board 415
APPENDIX 0 Presidents 416
APPENDIX D: Board of Directors 417
NOTE ON SOURCES 423
NOTES 425
INDEX 491
VII
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