It has all the trappings of a global enterprise, the frisson of celebrity and, most important, the financial support of some very large corporations.

The able bureaucrats and managers of this global enterprise were scarcely less heroic than their warrior counterparts, but much less celebrated.

He describes one of his key challenges as being to transform the group from a relatively loose federation of affiliated subsidiaries into 'a much more integrated global enterprise'.

Special interests include inter- and intra-organisational management, global enterprise networks, and dynamic project enterprises.

At that time the project evolved into a truly global enterprise, involving 440 scientists from 32 laboratories worldwide.