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This study draws from concepts of socio-technical interaction to examine cross-cultural perceptions and usage of information and communication technologies (ICT). Set in the context of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) specialising in business skills, data were collected at two separate intervals in France and the UK, to observe the adoption of innovation over time in each cultural setting. The findings reflect ICT evolution and convergence, evidencing how users perceive and interact with ICT with different intensity and for different motives. Managerial implications were developed in response to the way in which ICT is shaped by the professional context in each country.
Keywords: Cross-cultural difference, ICT, knowledge dissemination, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Différence interculturelle, TIC, diffusion des connaissances, formation continue, Diferencia intercultural, TIC, difusión del conocimiento, Desarrollo Profesional Continuo (DPC)
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The aim of this article is to explore the challenges of using crowdsourcing to innovate in the banking sector. Based on a qualitative methodology, our study shows that through this outsourcing modality, banks see the opportunity of opening a dialogue with the crowd of Internet users and benefiting from their ideas in a value creation process. While the benefits of using crowdsourcing seem significant, our study also shows sources of disappointment and vigilance. In particular, for legal or strategic reasons, banks are unable to implement some of the Internet users' ideas.
Keywords: crowdsourcing, banques, innovation, plateformes collaboratives, plateformes compétitives, crowdsourcing, banks, innovation, collaborative platforms, competitive platforms, crowdsourcing, bancos, innovación, plataformas colaborativas, plataformas competitivas
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The economy of Tunisia is increasingly dependent on tourism activities. In this sector, service innovation is a true engine of economic growth. While most work is focused on the analysis of determining factors and the effects of innovation or innovative decision-making processes, there are few research initiatives testing the impact of service innovation on the commercial performance of hotels. Based on investigation data from a representative sample including 603 hotels in Tunisia, the objective of our analysis is to explain the issues of the relationship between innovation in hotel services and the commercial performance of the hotel. Our results lead us to conclude that in Tunisia, innovation in hotel services can be stimulated by playing on certain factors such as the category of the hotel, governance structure, affiliation or belonging to a hotel chain, the size of the hotel, management of the innovation process, and consideration of the variable factors of market and competition. We also find that the commercial performance of hotels is influenced by these factors and, especially and powerfully, by the governance structure of the hotel and management of the innovation process.
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Keywords: Parcours scolaires, Études supérieures, Immigration, Jeunes, Socialisation familiale, Persévérance
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This article presents the results of a French didactic research project on the teaching of literary reading in high school (« lycée ») in France and college (« cégep ») in Quebec. We analyze the interpretations produced by empirical readers in the school context, as part of the study of La plage des songes (1998), a fantastic short story by Stanley Péan. The analysis of student's discourse, oral and written, is conducted according to a hermeneutical approach that values readers' reflexive ability to distance themselves from their interpretive journey. We specifically analyse the axiological resources mobilized by readers depending on various meanings attributed to the different narrative voices (the narrator, the characters, the implied author). Four issues are addressed: how do readers attribute statements to various enunciative voices? Does this attribution process reveal the involvement of axiological resources (judgments, values, ideological presuppositions, etc.) by readers? Does the assignment of statements to various narrative voices help readers distance themselves from the axiological resources they mobilize? To what extent are students able to reflect on the values, opinions, ideological assumptions that influence their interpretations and those of their peers?
Keywords: Lecture littéraire, sujet lecteur, didactique, herméneutique, valeurs, Literary reading, reader's subjectivity, didactics, hermeneutics, values
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This paper discusses the critical, satirical and ethical dimension of Anthropologies imaginaires (Imaginary Anthropologies), a vocal, musical and theatrical live-arts piece I created in 2014 and performed publicly in around twenty events. Alone on stage with the support of a documentary-style video projection, I sing eleven vocalizations that seemingly belong to unknown populations, whose fictional nature will be gradually revealed. The use of my voice is partially inspired by existing vocal traditions but blurred and distorted through my own self-developed experimental voice techniques. The interplay between these songs of Otherness and the increasingly problematic commentary of the five onscreen fake experts addresses current issues linked to coloniality, post-exoticism, cultural extinction, globalization, normalized racism and cultural appropriation. As a contemporary sound artist belonging to our cultural diversity, I analyze how I can use my voice, body and satire to formulate a critique of colonialism to an audience with mostly Eurocentric cultural references.
Keywords: Dharmoo, musique, voix, appropriation culturelle, arts interdisciplinaires, satire, folklore imaginaire, humour, éthique, Dharmoo, Music, Voice, Cultural Appropriation, Interdisciplinary Arts, Satire, Imaginary Folklore, Humour, Ethics, Dharmoo, música, voz, apropiación cultural, artes interdisciplinarias, sátira, folclor, imaginario, humor, ética
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In Quebec, many collective territorial identities coexist, but they do not all have the same visibility. In 2006, Étienne Rivard spoke of a ‘'geography of absence'' regarding questions of Indigenous territorial identity. Starting from this premise, we explore the unevenness between the importance of Indigenous issues in current affairs and the contribution of geographers in shedding light on these issues. If Quebec academic geography often glosses over the diversity of territorialities in the province, Inuit and First Nations, on the other hand, continue to trace the outlines of what an understanding of Quebec that fully integrates the Indigenous components of its territory could be. Using two examples – one relating to place names and the other to an Indigenous cultural festival – we discuss the growing visibility of Indigenous peoples in Quebec space, in Northern as well as urban regions.
Keywords: Territoire, Autochtones, Louis-Edmond Hamelin, visibilité, toponymie, géosymboles, Québec, Canada, décolonisation, Territory, Indigenous, Louis-Edmond Hamelin, visibility, place names, geosymbols, Quebec, Canada, decolonisation, Territorio, pueblos indígenas, Louis-Edmond Hamelin, visibilidad, toponimia, geosímbolos, Quebec, Canadá, descolonización
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This paper was written in response to an invitation by the organisers of the 2016 Brussels “colloquium on inter-normativity” to address “law-like” or “law related” transnational normative phenomena so as to assess inter alia, “the validity and legitimacy of social indicators such as university rankings, credit rating agencies indicators, rankings of legal regimes and other attempts to provide indicators in areas of social law, human rights law and business law”. The first part discusses the definition of global social indicators, how they relate to other normative materials — from law to algorithms — and what could be meant by asking for them to be legitimate. The second part then examines the implications of debates about and descriptions of indicators for three key aspects of legitimacy : authority, accountability and accuracy. It suggests that indicators are indeed assessed in terms of these criteria but that they also serve to reconfigure and transform them. As noted in the concluding section the paper argues that the relationship between the three aspects of legitimacy identified needs further examination, but that the challenge they pose is more fundamental. Objections to indicators turn on the ideas of the good society they embody, the part they play in constructing the relationship between more or less economically developed societies, and the kind of governance model they reflect — for example their tendency to substitute technicalities for political participation and their link to audit culture. On the other hand, even if caution is needed in endorsing the use of indicators in projects of governance, they do often have advantages of publicness, contestability and openness to violation when compared to the spread of algorithmic regulation.
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French language historical societies, such as the Société historique franco-américaine (SFHA) and the Société historique de Saint-Boniface (SHSB) play a key role in the development of a historic consciousness in Manitoba and New England. Their mere existence in a minority setting helps establish the boundaries of the territory upon which the historical accounts of the French and French-Canadians are set. Although their publications were generally geared towards a French Canadian readership, both historical societies published texts in English, destined for the majority with whom they were destined to cohabitate. How has writing for “others” influenced their interpretation of historic events? And how has the underlying identity discourse been presented to the English majority? By conducting a comparative analysis of two English language publications, as well as a selection of French language texts and publications, this article wishes to better understand the impact of language and readership on the elaboration of an identity discourse, firmly rooted in the past.
Keywords: Sociétés historiques, discours historique, identité, territoire, Canada français, Franco-Américains, Franco-Manitobains, Historical society, historic discourse, identity, territory, French Canada, Franco-Americans, Franco-Manitobans
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The activism of hedge funds fits into a different philosophy and approach from traditional activism. Hedge fund strategy consists of compelling directors and corporate officers through activist mechanisms (proxy fights, shareholder proposals, judicial remedies…) to put in place short-term profitability policies. The behaviour of hedge fund activists is topic of intense discussion. Many people point to the harmful consequences of such actions and their long-term effects on corporations, their stakeholders and the whole economy. However, it would be an overstatement to state that activism has only negative impacts. Experts stress its positive disciplinary effects over boards of directors and senior management. Several solutions are proposed by legislation to frame hedge fund activism : first, a strengthening the board of director's role through the increased competence of its members and an ongoing dialogue with shareholders ; and second, a framework for shareholder voting rights to better match their economic interest.