(Hardback)

In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. This work reveals how strategic decisions made by the family drove Santander's unprecedented rise to global prominence.

(Paperback)

This work challenges the notion that globalisation encourages economic convergence and cultural homogenisation across national borders. By comparing organizational change in various countries, the author finds that global competition necessitates the exploitation of distinctive strengths.

(Paperback)

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. Since its early twentieth-century peak, this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. This book tells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management.