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...

Recent studies on virtual teams reveal that team virtuality varies in a continuum and may take different degrees. Changing virtuality degrees has considerable effects on team processes and management as they generate different characteristics concerning communication dynamics and interaction...

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...

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...

One of the questions raised by the growing use of electronic communications is how far they have an impact on meetings functioning. Data have been collected via phone survey among a sample of 2,500 managers from 2001 to 2005. The results show that substitution between electronic and face-to-face...