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This study examines the impact of mentoring practices in the management consulting industry in France. Analyses reveal that organizational-based self-esteem partially mediates a positive relationship between mentoring practices and affective commitment while affective commitment mediates a negative relationship between mentoring and consultants' turnover intention. In contrast, mentoring practices and organizational-based self-esteem were unrelated to career commitment, which was also unrelated to turnover intention. We discuss the implications of these results for our understanding of the impact of these practices among knowledge workers.

Keywords: mentorat, engagement, estime de soi organisationnelle, intention de départ, travailleurs du savoir, mentoring, commitment, organizational-based self-esteem, turnover intention, knowledge workers, mentoría, compromiso, autoestima en el ámbito de la organización, intención de abandonar la empresa, profesionales del conocimiento

Since Weber (1930), it is acknowledged some influence of religion on entrepreneurship. However, it remains unclear through what channels it operates. In this research, which is based on the psychology and sociology of religion and favours the multidimensional approach to religion, we wonder about the influence of the latter upstream of entrepreneurship and, specifically, its influence on the motivation to undertake. We prove the existence of this influence and also demonstrate, from a sample of Muslim students, as in the case of the Islamic religion, only the ritual dimension involved in this influence.

Keywords: motivation entrepreneuriale, religion, entrepreneuriat, facteurs de motivation, islam, entrepreneurial motivation, religion, entrepreneurship, motivation factors, Islam, motivaciones para emprender, emprendedores musulmanes, empresarios musulmanes, religión, empresarios, clase empresarial, factores de motivación, motivación, motivaciones, islam

This paper analyzes the relationship between foreign ownership, investment and firms performance in a Sub-Saharan context, based on a sample of 168 Cameroonian firms in the period 2007-2009. To control for the endogeneity issue revealed by our analysis, we estimate a simultaneous equations model that is known to give more robust results than usual models. We find that foreign ownership has a negative effect on firm's assets return, while positively related to investment. However, the results show a non-linear relationship: when foreign equity is above 25%, foreign ownership is positively related to assets return, and negatively related to investment.

Keywords: Propriété étrangère, Investissement, Performance financière, Foreign ownership, Investment, Financial performance, Propiedad extranjera, inversión, rendimiento financiero

This article analyzes the complex employment position of temporary workers within organizations and on the labour market. Temporary employment is usually considered secondary to permanent employment. In recent years, the European Union and the Dutch government have attempted to change this situation by formulating several directives and labour laws. In this paper, we use institutional theory to discuss the institutional foundations and influences that shape the employment and labour-market conditions of temporary workers. The analysis shows that the core issues regarding temporary employment conditions include conflicting (legitimate) interests, socially constructed norms that favour permanent workers, and an uneven distribution of power. Our analysis further shows that institutional forces generate a structural justification for the disadvantaged position of temporary workers.

Twenty-two private sector trade union locals in the manufacturing, service and technology sectors in Canada were surveyed by telephone in 2002/2003. The objective was to determine union locals' understanding of the impact globalization was having on their operations, and to identify the contextual factors affecting their responses. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The locals associated globalization with plant closures, reduced production, and the elimination of or transfer of jobs and equipment out of the country. Seventeen of the locals reported being affected to a moderate to high degree. Their main responses were lobbying, educating members and the public, and organizing. The important contextual factors identified included local size, industry sector, levels of support available to and accessed by the locals, and the perceived need for and ability to adapt successfully to change.

AbstractFrançois Guizot's parallel careers as political theorist, prime minister of France and major historian have nearly eclipsed his contributions as a translator. An eminent anglicist, Guizot translated both Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Shakespeare's complete works into French. These translations served to convey Guizot's predominant ideological concerns. The Gibbon translation established epistemological norms for translation: the necessity of erudite elaboration to produce accurate translation. The Shakespeare translation's introduction bound comparative history of the theatre with political evolution to subtly promote the British constitutional model as a credible political alternative.

Keywords: François Guizot, Gibbon, Restauration, Shakespeare

AbstractThe first part of this paper discusses the synecdochial device, a key concept of a universal nature within discourse, and thus translation. I suggest linking Lederer's view of the synecdoche (1976, 1981, 1994) –, according to which the linguistic formulation is but a part used to designate the whole, i.e. the sense of an utterance – to the cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy (CTMM) (Lakoff et Johnsen 1980, Langacker 1987, Lakoff et Turner 1989, Gibbs 1994, Panther et Radder 1999, Barcelona 2000), where words are considered as cues for cognitive constructions. The synecdoches are the overt linguistic results of an individual's ability to construct a cognitive configuration. Due to the fact that a notion or a situation is generally conceptualized differently in two different languages, the synecdoches used to convey the sense of an utterance in discourse will consequently not be the same in the two languages. The second part of this paper sets out to examine to what extent professional translators are aware of the need to resort to new synecdoches in their target text in order to convey the cognitive configurations they have in mind after having grasped the sense of both novel and entrenched linguistic expressions in the source text. As mental processes cannot be observed directly, they need to be inferred from the translator's behavioural data. Drawing on experiential cases where the professional translators' behaviour is observed on the basis of data gathered from two process-oriented on-line approaches: think-aloud-protocols and Translog keyboard logging, I attempt to infer the reasons for their choice of translation shifts versus pre-assigned correspondences. I finally suggest classifying their transferring procedures into three categories: automatic, reflected or explorative.

Keywords: procédé synecdoquien, processus mentaux, conceptualisation, créations discursives versus correspondances pré-assignées, données processuelles in vivo