Download or read book CEOs as Leaders and Strategy Designers: Explaining the Success of Spanish Banks written by Kimio Kase and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes rapidly-growing world-class Spanish retail banks. It argues that their success is due to excellent management, clear-headed CEOs, the presence of a cluster of like-minded executives who complement each other and create a homogenous strategy pattern, and that IT systems and the regulatory environment have contributed greatly.