CONTENTS

OVERLOOKED
5 THE PRINCE’S EYE-GLASSES
by Claude RIVELINE
December 2007
15 THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION OF ACCOUNTING: THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF THE IASC/IASB
by Bernard COLASSE
March 2004
25 THE GLOOMY SIDE OF PROJECTS: WHEN WORKING ON A PROJECT JEOPARDIZES INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
by Alain ASQUIN, Gilles GAREL and Thierry PICQ
December 2007
37 IN CHINA, BETWEEN GUANXI AND THE CELESTIAL BUREAUCRACY
by Philippe D'IRIBARNE
June 2009
48 WESTERN AND CHINESE STYLE MANAGEMENT: COMMENT FROM A PRACTITIONER ON PHILIPPE D’IRIBARNE’S ARTICLE: “IN CHINA, BETWEEN GUANXI AND THE CELESTIAL BUREAUCRACY”
by Dominique POIROUX
June 2009
51 A FRENCH JOURNAL ON MANAGEMENT: SURVIVING AND THRIVING –THE CASE OF GÉRER & COMPRENDRE
by Michel BERRY

DEBATED
56 DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH OR GLOBISH?
by Jean-Paul NERRIÈRE
March 2003

IN QUEST OF THEORIES
65 FAILED LANDINGS IN BAD WEATHER
by Christian MOREL
June 2009

WHILE READING
75 WOMEN, AN OBJECT OF INNOVATION
par Hervé DUMEZ
June 2005
82 EGYPT AND THE EXPERTS
by Michel CALLON
December 2006

BOOK REVIEWS
96 Philippe FACHE
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS: On Marie Bia Figueiredo and Michel Kalika’s

Youcef BOUSALHAM
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MASS-MARKET RETAILING
On Christophe Vignon’s (ed.)

Daniel FIXARI
THE GAME OF RULES, A MULTIDISCIPOLINARY APPROACH
On Hervé Dumez and Jean- Baptiste Suquet’s (eds.) « Les Jeux de la règle », une approche interdisciplinaire .