French Business Culture: The End of the “Cultural Exception”?

Abstract

The French way of doing business still has some very specific features the role of “Grandes ecoles” or the way to lead a negotiation. But many exceptions seem to fading in the content of the European Union and of the globalization of economic culture. The new period of growth that France is how experiencing may actually reinforce the people's confidence in globalization, and accelerate the (normalization) of some specific habits. In this paper it will be discussed that the relation between the global business culture and <the cultural exception> of france.