Within the context of the internationalization of organizations and, in particular, growing numbers of staff members from different cultures, the number of studies on the management of cultural differences has increased considerably. However, as several authors have observed, studies on cultural differences and the concept of cultural identity remain limited, in large part due to […]

In recent months, humanity has had to deal with a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19, which has caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzed the global economy. Struggling to cure infected patients while continuing to care for patients with other pathologies, health authorities have faced the lack of medical staff and infrastructure. […]

FinTech (Financial Technology) and Blockchain are prevalent topics among technology leaders in finance today. This article describes the impact and revolution of FinTech and Blockchain in the financial industry and demonstrates the main characteristics of such technology. Then, we present three critical challenges as well as three ethical issues about using Blockchain technology. Next, we […]

When it comes to work engagement (one’s vigor, dedication, and absorption directed to work tasks), some job resources are more important for some, but not for others – and it is largely dependent on your office location. Halinski and Harrison (2020) recently published an article in the International Journal of Public Sector Management, exploring this hypothesis with public service employees in […]

We examine the effect of age and the moderating effect of labour market situations on individuals’ decisions to enter into risky innovative entrepreneurship. Using population-level data from 94 countries from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor database we find that although age is negatively related to the choice of innovative entrepreneurship, the age–innovative entrepreneurship choice relationship is […]

Arctic shipping is controversial due to the trade-off between its positive economic impact and its negative environmental effects. As both effects are affected by the uncertainty related to sailing conditions encountered along the route, we develop a model that estimates how ice conditions change the probability of blockage along the route and play on the economic […]

Until 2020, fewer than 2% of western employees were telecommuting or working from home full time. Since the Covid-19 lockdown, however, caused by the health crisis in March 2020, almost 25% of employees now work full-time from home. In most western countries, despite the easing of the lockdown, the uptake on returning to on-site work […]

Changes in the climatic conditions in the Arctic are opening new trading routes (Northern Sea Route and North West Passage) in this area. There is a growing importance of this theme in the conversation amongst transportation scholars. Indeed, the academic conversation about Arctic transportation is becoming a field of research in itself. The aim of […]

With digitalisation, the role of the finance manager is now taking on an increasingly strategic dimension for which it is imperative to prepare students. To meet this challenge, the EM Normandie Business School is launching an MSc Financial Data Management at the start of the 2020 academic year. Accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles […]

Interview with Julian Hoffman, associate professor in marketing at EM Normandie Business School You have recently developed an e-learning course in marketing for EM Normandie Business School. Can you tell us about your experience with this new way of teaching? The school is transforming suitable courses that have so far been set up as face-to-face […]

A Management Grande Ecole expresses first and foremost a commitment: graduating young people who will integrate the job market fast, equipped to move on unfazed and fulfil their lives throughout their professional careers. It is also a guarantee to be taking a top level academic programme, recognised internationally and in the business world.  Furthermore, it […]

“Work, freedom, dignity” was one of the many slogans that Tunisians chanted in 2011 to vent their frustration with the government of president Ben Ali, which they accused of having looted the country for over two decades. In less than four weeks, Tunisia’s “Jasmine” revolution forced the president to flee, and his regime to tumble. […]

Si les étudiants sont de plus en plus sensibles et sensibilisés à la notion d’éthique, appliquer leurs principes dans le monde de l’entreprise n’est pas toujours aisé. Une réalité d’autant plus vraie dans le secteur de la finance ! En encadrant les opérations financières par des principes moraux qui leurs sont propres,  les religions peuvent-elles constituer […]

Interview de Hortense Ross Innerarity, Super Intendent of Pilotage, enregistrée à l’occasion du 30ème anniversaire de la collaboration entre l’Iper, l’Organisation Maritime Internationale et Haropa-Port du Havre, le 16 juin 2016.

A l’occasion du 30ème anniversaire de la collaboration entre l’Iper, l’Organisation Maritime Internationale et Haropa-Port, le 16 juin 2016, Pamela TANSEY – Directrice Adjointe de la Coopération Technique, nous présente le partenariat étroit qui lie l’IPER à l’OMI.