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...

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...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), like groupware systems, intranet or videoconference, enable team members to work on th e same project but from different places. Some teams are called virtual because they exist only through the network. As the work is geographically...

The world of business management, especially in North America, is becoming increasingly interested in emotions. During the last ten years, this movement has largely turned around the notion of emotional intelligence. The purpose of this article is to relocate this question in context and to show...