The Hidden Dimension of Happy Cultural Cooperation

Emmanuelle Sauvage
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Emmanuelle Sauvage: IRGO - Institut de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - UB - Université de Bordeaux - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Bordeaux

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Abstract: Cross-cultural management research usually postulates that mutual expectations must be clearly assessed and that it is necessary for people from different cultural areas to share a common vision in order to efficiently collaborate. This research examines the link between intercultural understanding and relational efficiency by studying a "happy" and successful Franco-Latino-American case. It challenges the above-mentioned postulate and reveals that relational efficiency relies upon compatible positive understandings of a same situation rather than upon similar understandings, hence the notion of productive misunderstandings.

Keywords: International cooperation; Intercultural communication; Franco-Latino-American relationship; Cross-cultural management; Underlying meanings; Productive misunderstandings; Divergent-understandings; Cooperación internacional; Comunicación intercultural; Relación franco-latinoamericana; Gestión intercultural; Significados subyacentes; Malentendidos productivos; Entendidos divergentes; Coopération internationale; Communication interculturelle; Relation Franco-Latino-Américaine; Management interculturel; Significations sous-jacentes; Malentendus productifs; Entendus divergents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2018, 23 (1), pp.91-102

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