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This essay presents the thought of Nishitani, philosopher and Zen practitioner, introducing the main topics on which he concentrated in his dialogue with Eckhart, Nietzsche and Heidegger : the Great Doubt (taigi), the Great Death (taishi), religion (shūkyō), concentration (samādhi, sammai), the ego (jiga), the true self (jiko), selfness (jitai), suchness (tathatā, nyojitsu), nothingness (mu), nihility (kyomu, the « hollow nothing »), and emptiness (śūnyatā, kū ; literally : heavenly openness). Nishitani understood remarkably well some important aspects of Western philosophy, which he critically related to convictions coming from his Buddhist tradition. As a consequence, this article offers an interpretation of Nishitani's vigorous and original approach. Finally, it briefly indicates avenues of renewal for a theological enterprise that is more and more multicultural.
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This article explores the multiple and interwoven effects of accelerating international market integration in order to allow economic actors to better distinguish upcoming stakes. The authors identify four related, often connected, research perspectives within the international business field: integrating new logics of diagnostic and decision-making, considering new types of stakeholders, changing balance of power between economic territories and players, and strengthening the relationship between the transformation of organizational structures and intercultural evolutions.
Keywords: Globalisation, management international, perspectives de recherche, Globalisation, international management, research perspectives, Globalización, management internacional, perspectivas de investigación
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The turmoil faced by financial sector organizations worldwide has shaken the consumers' confidence, but this crisis also gave regulatory agencies the opportunity to redefine their monitoring approach and their expectations towards the protection of consumers' interests. It also highlighted the responsibilities of consumers, who should become better informed before they purchase financial products and services. This article will first summarize the evolution of the governance of financial sector's business practices, both on an international and a national basis, by presenting some initiatives of the Autorité des marchés financiers in Québec. Next, we will discuss the main challenges financial institutions will face when they decide to implement the principle of fair treatment of consumers and integrate it into their organizational culture. We will also see that financial institutions may have to reconsider a number of their processes and ways of doing business to promote increased communication, transparency and efficiency in their relationships with their customers and a greater organizational consistency. Finally, we will try to draw some conclusions and suggest some avenues to help financial institutions better understand the principle of fair treatment of consumers and to consider it as an opportunity to be perceived as businesses which have their customers' best interests at heart.
Keywords: Traitement équitable des consommateurs, protection des intérêts des consommateurs, optimisation du capital client, gestion de la relation client, confiance des consommateurs dans le secteur financier, Fair treatment of customers, protection of consumers' interests, optimization of client capital, customers relationship management, customers' confidence in the financial sector
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This article discusses the government of cities. After clarifying the concepts of government, governance, governing and governability as well as the metropolis in a first part, the author focuses on the so many attempts to create a metropolitan government in recent decades. He thus provides a tough but realistic assessment of failures and partial success of institutional reforms engaged in the most democratic countries, but also more recent initiatives presented under the concept of governance (strategic planning, “new regionalism” cooperation between actors, urban political regimes, etc..). In a second step, he explains the rather negative assessment because of the permanence of unresolved obstacles as the ambiguous role of the states, the reluctance and even the opposition from local communities and city centers and finally, the refusal of the populations through the instruments of local democracy. The last part focuses on the importance of political action and the two main projects that must be implemented to make metropolis of political territories : the construction of a metropolitan identity and that of a territorial leadership otherwise, the metropolitan government will remain unlikely.
Keywords: métropoles, gouvernement, gouvernance, gouvernabilité, action politique, metropolis, government, governance, governability, political action, metrópolis, gobierno, gobernanza, gobernabilidad, acción política
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The aim of this article is to establish a summary of research concerning integrated models of decision to export. The main elements of these models will be emphasised (the level of motivation : stimuli and exogenous variables; the level of decision-making : the awareness, the interest, the intention, the trial, the decision; the behavioural level: the managerial attitude), before identifying common and differing characteristics. Finally, the managerial implications which result from studies will be presented, concluding by recommanding research paths to be followed.