Taken from Boddy, D. 2005; Management, An Introduction, 3rd Edition; Pearson Education Ltd, 2005, Harlow
W.L Gore and Associates is a remarkable example of a business organized around team principles. While working as a scientist at Dupont Corporation, Bill Gore became convinced of the potential value of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), commonly known as Teflon, as an insulating material for wire. This led him and his wife Vieve to begin W. L. Gore and associates in Newark, Delaware, in 1958. The company has grown to the extent that in 2004 the plants in Livingston and Dundee, Scotland, were ranked by The Sunday Times as Britain's Best Company to Work For' and the company also featured in Fortune magazine as one of America's 100 Best Companies to Work For (ranking twelfth in the list). The company is owned by the Gore family and the associates (see below).
In 1969 their son, Bob Gore, discovered that PTFE could be stretched to form a strong porous material, which enabled......
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