Genesis of an american image or Making sense of transatlantic misunderstandings

• Michel CROZIER
  Emeritus research director, CNRS
  
• Michel BERRY
  École de Paris du management
  

Summary

Michel Crozier's experience serves to show that people on different sides of the Atlantic can read very different things into the self-same book. Are the Americans and the French doomed to say endlessly to each other "Je te comprends, moi non plus?" (I understand what you're saying, me neither) ? or can we improve understanding despite the fact that our channels of communication are on different wavelengths ?

Summary translated from French by B&A CONSEIL.

• The entire article was written by Michel BERRY and translated by B&A CONSEIL.

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