This paper aims at better understanding the dynamics of international project groups by grasping the strategies project leaders set up to cope with cultural diversity. Three kinds of cross-cultural practices emerged from the comparative study of European project groups: (1) to draw upon...

This article builds on the contingency approach of global leadership to examine empowerment in a cross-cultural context. Drawing upon an ethnographic research in a French NGO settled in Madagascar, it demonstrates that effective empowerment is not so much a matter of degree -more or less...

This article builds on the contingency approach to global leadership to examine empowerment in a cross-cultural context. Drawing upon ethnographic research on employees of a French NGO in Madagascar, our study demonstrates that effective empowerment is not dependent on the amount of delegation,...

Comment s’opère la coordination au sein des nouvelles structures transversales que multiplient les firmes multinationales? Avec quelle efficacité? Aux enjeux de pouvoir entre siège et filiales s’ajoutent de nouvelles diversités, celle des langues et des repères culturels. Au détriment,...