F. Fukuyama's thesis argues that trust between economic players is a key factor for explaining performance. This contribution examines recent findings by La Porta et al. [1997] who have verified F. Fukuyama's thesis on a sample of forty countries. Using the same database, we conduct an empirical...

France has a strong basis for developing international business education due primarily to its language, culture and institutions. However, Jean-Claude Usunier shows these can also be retarding factors; the way the universities and grandes ecoles are regulated is one, over-centralisation of...

The key hypothesis is that expatriates experience a loss of oral pleasure related to the absence of their native language and eating and drinking habits in the host country, and that it affects their overall satisfaction with the expatriation experience. Based on a mail survey of American...