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Imagining corporate culture: The industrial paternalism of William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight, 1888--1925.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining corporate culture: The industrial paternalism of William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight, 1888--1925./
Author:	Rowan, Jeremy David.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2222.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3096555
ISBN:	9780496441716

Imagining corporate culture: The industrial paternalism of William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight, 1888--1925.
Rowan, Jeremy David.

Imagining corporate culture: The industrial paternalism of William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight, 1888--1925. - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2222.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2003.

At Lever Brothers soap company in Port Sunlight, U.K., William Lever, between 1888--1925, instituted employee benefits that preceded the welfare state. Yet, in addition to providing tangible benefits for the employees (including free medical care, pensions, an employee profit-sharing scheme), Lever also created a strong corporate identity for his employees by cultivating a strong company and personal image, one constructed in response to national discourses surrounding industrialization, empire, national identity, and economic decline. Lever offered his company as a solution to national concerns and thus posited his workers as participants in patriotic efforts and empire-building. He forged an effective company culture by constructing a positive image of himself, his company, and his factory town.

ISBN: 9780496441716Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Imagining corporate culture: The industrial paternalism of William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight, 1888--1925.
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520 $a Lever constructed and defended this image through various channels. In public addresses, he carefully constructed his own ethos. In Port Sunlight, architecture was a rhetorical method for constructing and consolidating a company image that looked to an idealized past. Media events, Lever's art collection, advertisements, and company, local, and national publications further promoted the company culture and the employees' roles in it. This carefully constructed image was an important element in the development of an overall corporate culture that helped thrust Lever Brothers (later Unilever) into multinational status. This dissertation shows that analysis of paternalist companies such as Lever Brothers must be conducted through a wide lens to account for the influence of cultural factors on the company's success as well as to recognize the role of such factors in the successful construction of company identity.
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