This chapter explores how national cultural differences between partners involved in a contractual relationship may interfere with the development of trust. This is illustrated through a case study of a management contract signed by a French private company (Promostate) and public Lebanese...

During its ten years of existence, CARSUD, a firm in New Caledonia, experienced, an initial period rife with labor disputes between local Oceanian employees and a management from France, and then an astonishing renaissance under the leadership of a young, inventive manager, who succeeded where...

The debate on distance teams, mostly virtual teams, has been especially prominent in the academic literature for the last few years. Among the different concepts that have been studied by researchers, little attention has been paid explicitly to national culture. Although sometimes presented as...

Le Liban, ce petit pays du Moyen-Orient, frappe immédiatement le regard par l’extrême diversité des communautés qui le composent. « Carrefour des civilisations », « pont entre l’Orient et l’Occident », « terre de dialogue islamo-chrétien », sont autant d’expressions qui...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a more nuanced image of cooperation in France, first, insisting on the idiosyncratic conditions under which French will be likely to cooperate, and, second, pointing the importance of the local context, finally criticizing the average stereotyped image...

Findings on key elements regarding the language of publication of research in Management, particularly in relation to the case of researchers who do not use English, and on multilingualism in the area.

In this paper, we tried to present a literature review of accounting researches in Tunisia during the ten last years for several reasons in particular the luck of information about these studies and the need to expose some characteristics and analyse their evolution through time. This work is...