Chemicals as a regulated industry: implications for research and product development

George C. Eads

Expert InsightsPublished 1979

Within the last decade the chemical industry has become a "regulated industry," but the regulation to which it has become subject is different in both degree and kind from that applied to the "classic" regulated industries--the airlines, the railroads, and the public utilities. This paper examines the cumulative impact of the present maze of regulatory influences on the decisionmaking environment within which the industry presently finds itself. A framework for undertaking research on this impact as well as suggested preliminary hypotheses for testing are outlined. Critical decisions relating to product development are explored. The chemical industry is examined against two separate baselines: as it existed prior to the mid-1960s and as it exists today.

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Eads, George C., Chemicals as a regulated industry: implications for research and product development. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1979. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6198.html.
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