CEOs as Leaders and Strategy Designers: Explaining the Success of Spanish Banks Explaining the Success of Spanish Banks

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ISBN: 9780230542952 | 0230542956
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Copyright: 1/15/2008

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Based on the CEO's cognition model concerned with decision making, and developed by Kimio Kase, this book explains the extraordinary development and performance of the Spanish banking industry during the last twenty years.

List of Tables	p. x
List of Figures	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvi
Introduction and Overview of Book	p. 1
Research questions	p. 7
Business model and its historical background	p. 8
Historical evolution of regulatory environment	p. 8
Organization of book and reading guide	p. 13
The Great Leap of Spanish Banks, 1987-2005: A Profit-Arithmetic (PA) Approach	p. 16
Introduction	p. 16
Evolution of the regulatory environment in the Spanish banking	p. 16
The long process of deregulation	p. 19
Deregulation, new financial markets and new regulatory body, the CNMV	p. 20
Deregulation leading to an internal reorganisation of the Spanish financial system	p. 22
Spanish firms rediscover America: 1995-2005	p. 31
Progress in new areas	p. 38
Conclusions	p. 42
Generic Business Model in Spanish Retail Banks	p. 48
Strategic configuration: outline	p. 48
The strategic configuration: overview	p. 50
Cognitive process - PIF and PA	p. 63
Value creation by Spanish banks: Empirical validation of the generic business model	p. 70
Empirical validation	p. 71
Conclusions	p. 85
Santander's Business Model	p. 90
Introduction	p. 90
Organisational structure	p. 94
Penchant or bias for size and growth after size	p. 101
Geographical expansion, product expansion and retail banks	p. 101
From penchant for profitability to growth-centred bias	p. 102
Expansion in Latin America	p. 102
Expansion in Europe	p. 104
Economies of scale	p. 107
Efficiency	p. 108
Information Technology (IT)	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 114
Business Model of BBVA - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria	p. 120
Introduction	p. 120
BBVA's business model	p. 124
Conclusion	p. 144
Conclusions and Discussions	p. 145
Research questions revisited	p. 145
Discussions	p. 146
Suggestions for future research	p. 155
Content Analysis of Bank CEOs' Speeches	p. 157
The questions to address	p. 157
Analytical tool	p. 157
Q[subscript 1] Do Spanish banks differentiate themselves from the banks of other countries, such as Japan, regarding their business approach?	p. 164
Q[subscript 2] Similarity or disparity of business model among Spanish banks	p. 168
Japanese Banks: A Contrast to Spanish Banks	p. 184
Historical backdrop	p. 184
Why is the profitability of the Japanese banks low?	p. 186
Suruga Bank	p. 191
History	p. 192
Competitive products	p. 194
Okano the reformer	p. 195
Strategic volte-face	p. 196
Target client segmentation	p. 197
Customer relationship marketing and credit risk management (CRM)	p. 203
Culture reorientation and organisational change	p. 206
Suruga Bank today	p. 208
From here to eternity	p. 209
Banco Sabadell's Business Model	p. 213
Organisational chart	p. 213
Theory of the business	p. 215
Business model predicated on the two-tier structural changes	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 220
Research Methodology	p. 222
Defining the problem	p. 222
The research: A three-stage process	p. 222
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 251
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CEOs as Leaders and Strategy Designers: Explaining the Success of Spanish Banks Explaining the Success of Spanish Banks

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