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French business correspondence and peer evaluation on the electronic learning platform: a comparison between the performances of Russian and Flemish students Universiteit Antwerpen
French business correspondence and peer evaluation on the electronic learning platform: a comparison between the performances of Russian and Flemish students Universiteit Antwerpen
Re-considering language within a cosmopolitan understanding: Towards a multilingual franca approach in international business studies KU Leuven
This paper aims to uncover the normative assumptions that guide language studies in international business. Relying on sociolinguistics and cosmopolitan theory, we point to the possibility of conceiving language as a social practice rather than a discrete entity, and understanding globalization as the entanglement between universality and particularity rather than treating these two notions separately. Combining these linguistic and global ...
Grasping opportunities in times of crisis? The community of Dutch maritime traders in the port of Antwerp during the French period Universiteit Antwerpen
The economic and political difficulties during the French period have often been described as harmful and devastating for traders. Without any doubt, trade was severely hampered by warfare, political instability, and trade impediments put in place during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period. More recently, however, the flexibility and resilience of maritime traders has been stressed. Evidence is often scarce and limited to specific ...
Oud-leerling versus ancien élève: A Comparative Study of Adjectives Grammaticalizing into Prefixes in Dutch and French KU Leuven
This article analyzes the grammaticalization of adjectives into prefixes in Dutch and French. In the first part, the notion of 'affixoids', hybrid elements that combine properties of free lexemes and bound morphemes, will be defined and illustrated. It will be claimed that affixoids can be seen as a result of a grammaticalization process for which we will advance phonological, morphological, semantic and distributional parameters applying to the ...
Where Gibrat meets Zipf: Scale and scope of French firms KU Leuven
The proper characterization of the size distribution and growth of firms represents an important issue in economics and business. We use the Maximum Entropy approach to assess the plausibility of the assumption that firm size follows Lognormal or Pareto distributions, which underlies most recent works on the subject. A comprehensive dataset covering the universe of French firms allows us to draw two major conclusions. First, the Pareto ...
Autonomous e-commerce delivery in ordinary and exceptional circumstances. The French case Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Automation represents the next big buzz in transport and promises many advantages beneficial for society, including a more efficient use of space, energy, time, as well as reduced costs. An impressive range of autonomous vehicles is introduced, covering applications for personal and goods transport. In particular in response to the global pandemic linked to COVID-19, autonomous vehicles were proposed and celebrated as safe and reliable home ...