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...

Most cross-cultural management studies are based on US research instruments. Sophisticated translation procedures are applied to ensure that the target language wording is as near as possible to the source language. This process often results in ignoring the emic meaning in the target context by...