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Atran, Scott; Axelrod, Robert - HAL - 2008

opportunities for breakthroughs to peace. Because of the emotional unwillingness of those in conflict situations to negotiate sacred …

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Beyond Being There: The Symbolic Role of Communication and Identification in the Emergence of Perceived Proximity in Geographically Dispersed Work

O'leary, Michael Boyer; Metiu, Anca; Wilson, Jeanne M. - HAL - 2011

We develop the concept of perceived proximity, understood as a symbolic representation of one's faraway coworkers. We build on Wilson et al. (2008), present new validated measures of perceived proximity, and compare how perceived proximity and objective distance relate to relationship outcomes...

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Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments ?

Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - HAL - 2009

This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament....

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Un modèle de management alternatif : à partir du cas de l'entreprise OtoKar

Larrasquet, Jean-Michel; Pilnière, Véronique - HAL - 2012

The OtoKar company (luxury coaches, cooperative, 800 persons, in the Spanish Basque Country) presents specific organizational features: model is very far from the hierarchical traditional one and, to our mind, it borders on the "intelligent" organizational model (Peter Senge, 1998). Complexity...

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Succès » et « échec » d'un outil de gestion : le cas de la naissance des budgets et de la gestion sans budget

Berland, Nicolas; Levant, Yves; Alcouffe, Simon - HAL - 2009

Le budget est de plus en plus critiqué. Certains suggèrent même qu'il puisse être abandonné. Cela marquerait l'échec d'un outil apparu dans les années 1930 et qui avait connu un grand succès depuis. Il est encore trop tôt pour savoir si les critiques conduiront à sa disparition. Mais...

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Le microcrédit est-il le faux nez du néolibéralisme ? La microfinance et les femmes pauvres : état du débat

Hofmann, Elisabeth; Marius-Gnanou, Kamala - HAL - 2007

. Deuxièmement, celui de l'objectif secondaire du microcrédit qui se veut aussi l'élément déclencheur de l'empowerment des femmes … pauvres. Les éléments de réponses sont également divers et l'empowerment clairement constaté dans certains exemples indiens …

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The weight of institutions on women's capabilities

Gilardone, Muriel; Guérin, Isabelle; Palier, Jane - HAL - 2002

for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from …

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L'orientation client du personnel en contact avec la clientèle : définition et déterminants

Esslimani, Bouchra - HAL - 2006

Cet article tente d'identifier les facteurs favorisant le développement d'un comportement orienté client chez le personnel en contact avec la clientèle opérant dans l'entreprise de services. Il a aussi pour objectif d'en proposer un modèle explicatif. Un examen de la littérature produit...

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Delegating effectively across cultures

Chevrier, Sylvie; Viegas-Pires, Michaël - HAL - 2012

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 … effective delegation in Madagascar. This suggests that managers should adapt the way they empower their teams to the conditions …

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The hero figure in Business and Cinema

Fournout, Olivier - HAL - 2012

Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...

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