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...

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...

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...

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