Family-led banks in the global economy -- A family bank's origins -- The industrial group -- Survival of the biggest? -- The new world -- Alliances, and their limits -- Back to Europe -- Managerial style, governance, succession -- The future of a global group

Family-led banks in the global economy -- A family bank's origins -- The industrial group -- Survival of the biggest? -- The new world -- Alliances, and their limits -- Back to Europe -- Managerial style, governance, succession -- The future of a global group

Main description: 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. Here, Mauro Guillén and Adrian Tschoegl tackle the question of...

The trajectories of internationalisation followed by family firms can be viewed from several theoretical approaches - phases of the internationalisation process; international entrepreneurship, sociological perspective, family business theory. An historical perspective of the internationalised...