What Social Model Should Apply to Industrial Research? Analyzing Changes in Human Resources Management in a Speciality Chemicals Company

Since the mid-1990s, the traditional roles and methods of running in-house research departments were called into question with the emergence of innovation-based competition, currently spreading across various economic sectors. In-house research departments are under increasing pressure to produce results; companies are expected to generate continuous, radical innovations even as research budgets are being cut and processes streamlined.