At the confluence of philology and economy, foreign languages for business are a more and more interesting domain for the European economic agents, aware of the value of multilingual competences. Tourism is a priority domain of the economy, and within international tourism, foreign languages are...

Sur l'un des plus grands marchés uniques mondiaux, celui de l'Union européenne, les entreprises doivent se doter d'instruments capables de leur assurer la survie et la performance. Négligées pendant une longue période dans les milieux économiques, les com

The present paper presents a few aspects reflecting the difficulties that Italian businessmen face when adapting to the Romanian social and cultural environment or when leading Romanian working groups and their reaction towards working with Italian managers. The differences of mentality and both...

La dynamique de la société actuelle privilégie la libre circulation des personnes et de l'information. L'Europe, sans les frontières physiques qui séparaient autrefois les peuples, fournit le sentiment naturel d'un espace global, aujourd'hui violemment frappé par la crise économique. Dans...

Decades of accumulated knowledge empowers our quest to de-bias human cognition. However, I propose that improvement methods aimed at certain biases may introduce new biases due to cognitive and situational limitations: Such limitations give rise to simplifying and protecting processes (SPPs),...

In this research we explore the issue of “competence management”, as usually defined in the corporate vocabulary, mostly in the human resource (HR) function, and more particularly of “strategic competence management” (long run management of competences which are critical to achieve...

French Abstract: Cet article présente une évaluation comparative de l’efficacité et de l’équité du régime linguistique de l’Union européenne à l’aide de trois grandes enquêtes statistiques publiées par Eurostat. L’efficacité du régime linguistique actuel, fondé sur...

From an inquiry about three fundamental modes of knowing, we propose an interpretation of rationality as "trilogical". We come out, from that point, to the hypothesis of a trilogy of value. This hypothesis, as articulating objectal values, relational values, and political values, offers new...