Background
Guillen, Mauro Federico was born on September 30, 1964 in Leon, Spain. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Julian and Maria Flor (Rodriguez) Guillen.
(Since 1992, Spanish companies in a variety of industries ...)
Since 1992, Spanish companies in a variety of industries have acquired a prominent presence in the global economy, especially in Latin America and Europe. Companies such as Telefónica, Banco Santander, Repsol-YPF and Inditex (the owner of the Zara brand) have catapulted themselves to become major international competitors, making Spain one of the world's ten largest foreign direct investors. Mauro Guillén offers not only an explanation of why this has happened, but also an assessment of the economic, financial, political and social consequences for Spain and for Europe. In this 2005 analysis, he also addresses the weaknesses of the Spanish multinationals, especially their lack of proprietary technology and their primary focus on Latin America. The book concludes with the argument that the Spanish multinational firms ought to consolidate their European positions through mergers and acquisitions, opening up new possibilities for further expansion in North America and Asia.
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( The dream of scientific management was a rationalized m...)
The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical, Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management--one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like--and beautiful--architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his Towards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.
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( This book challenges the widely accepted notion that gl...)
This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development trajectories. Analyzing the social, political, and economic conditions underpinning the rise of various organizational forms, Guillén shows that business groups, small enterprises, and foreign multinationals play different economic roles depending on a country's path to development. Business groups thrive when there is foreign-trade and investment protectionism and are best suited to undertake large-scale, capital-intensive activities such as automobile assembly and construction. Their growth and diversification come at the expense of smaller firms and foreign multinationals. In contrast, small and medium enterprises are best fitted to compete in knowledge-intensive activities such as component manufacturing and branded consumer goods. They prosper in the absence of restrictions on export-oriented multinationals. The book ends on an optimistic note by presenting evidence that it is possible--though not easy--for countries to break through the glass ceiling separating poor from rich. It concludes that globalization encourages economic diversity and that democracy is the form of government best suited to deal with globalization's contingencies. Against those who contend that the transition to markets must come before the transition to ballots, Guillén argues that democratization can and should precede economic modernization. This is applied economic sociology at its best--broad, topical, full of interesting political implications, and critical of the conventional wisdom.
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sociology and management educator
Guillen, Mauro Federico was born on September 30, 1964 in Leon, Spain. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Julian and Maria Flor (Rodriguez) Guillen.
Bachelor in Political Economy, Oviedo University, Spain, 1987. Doctor Political Economy cum laude, Oviedo University, Spain, 1991. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1989.
Master in Philosophy, Yale University, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, 1992.
Instructor Yale University, New Haven, 1989-1991, graduate affiliate Calhoun College, 1990-1992. Assistant professor international management and sociology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School Management, Cambridge, 1992-1996. From assistant professor to professor management Wharton School University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1996.
Director Lauder Institute, since 2007. Research affiliate Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1992-1996. Visiting member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1998-1999.
( This book challenges the widely accepted notion that gl...)
(Since 1992, Spanish companies in a variety of industries ...)
( The dream of scientific management was a rationalized m...)
Organizer Graduate Employees and Studen Organization at Yale, New Haven, 1991-1992. Member American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Academy Management, Academy International Business.