Dow Chemical Corporation

Dow Chemical Corporation With annual sales of more than $20 billion, Dow Chemical provides more than 2,400 product families and services. Such corporate success can only mean that Dow Chemical has developed a corporate structure and strategy that has helped them succeed. Why else would they be the fifth largest chemical company in the world? In the past five years, Dow Chemical has been forced to make many decisions regarding their goods and services. Dow CEO, William …

…safe to say, however, that Dow Chemical Corporation has used the collective-participative decision making style to develop a corporate structure that is conducive to growth, as well as to develop the products that have made them successful. References Dow Chemical Corporation. Sustainable Development Guiding Principles. Retrieved Jan. 8, 2004, from http:// http://www.dow.com/about/corp/sustain.htm. Hodgetts, Richard M. (1999, Nov.) Dow Chemical's CEO William Stavropoulos on structure and decision-making. The Academy Of Management Executive.