The paper addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges of doing ethnographic work in a political crisis context. Using ethnographic data gathered at the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), the biggest union organization in the country on three specific episodes (December...

Forum Presentation on challenges relating to Anglo-Saxon hegemony in knowledge about organizations.

Drawing on postcolonial studies of management, this article highlights the importance of adopting a contextualized approach to hybridization processes that, first, takes into account the importance of the historical and cultural contexts from which hybridity emerges and, second, helps to...

This article examines the implementation of The Principles of Action (Lafarge Group) in a Jordanian subsidiary. Two visions of life coexist in Jordan: a tribal vision with a group-based social hierarchy, and an in-group solidarity, a strong sense of honour; an Islamic vision based upon fairness...

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...

Do companies in developing countries can be modernised despite their culture, by fighting against it or simply by importing the so-called ―universal‖ standards developed in the west? Or, on the contrary, do they show that there is good in each culture, even in terms of management and that...

The so-called developing countries are exhorted to reform their “investment climate”. They will, according to sponsors, find a place in the global economy thanks to bold reforms based on good institutional practices that have been well proven elsewhere. As experience shows however, importing...

Countries referred to as “developing” are being urged more and more to reform their “investment climate”. It is often said that a “good” investment climate leads to both increased economic growth and reduced poverty. In these countries, corrupt government, clientelism, a lack of...