This article examines the middle management representations of organization and managerial roles within a specific bicultural organizational context. The argument explores the extant cross-cultural management literature and identifies two predominant positions: a functionalist-stable stance and a dynamically interpretive perspective of culture. Historically, both positions have contributed to understanding management roles and behaviours in different cross-cultural contexts; however, each also possesses limitations. In response, the argument elaborates a multi-paradigmatic model and framework that synergise elements of the respective approaches. An interpretive methodology using a distinctive qualitative case study of the Franco-German collaborative media venture ARTE is developed. The researchers conducted 31 interviews with French and German ARTE middle managers in order to determine their perceptions of middle-manager roles in this context. The article identified differences in managerial role perceptions and behaviours as well as hybrid working practices as a result of intercultural adaptation and learning in addition to implications, limitations and future directions in the study.

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当“运转良好的机器”与“人的金字塔”相遇时：跨国组织中层管理人员的角色感知和混合工作实践– ARTE

本文研究了特定双文化组织环境中组织和管理角色的中层管理代表。该论点探索了现有的跨文化管理文献，并确定了两个主要立场：功能主义者的立场和对文化的动态解释。从历史上看，这两个职位都有助于理解不同文化背景下的管理角色和行为。但是，每个也都有局限性。作为回应，该论点阐述了一个多范式模型和框架，它们协同了各个方法的要素。使用法德合作媒体企业ARTE的独特定性案例研究开发了一种解释方法。研究人员对法国和德国ARTE中层管理者进行了31次访谈，以确定他们对这种情况下中层管理者角色的看法。这篇文章指出了跨文化适应和学习的结果以及研究的局限性，局限性和未来发展方向，从而导致了管理者角色观念和行为以及混合工作实践方面的差异。