Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 9/10, Hogeschool Zeeland (Business Economics), course: Organisation/Management, language: English, abstract: Due to our group members, we were not only searching for anorganisation, which is present in France and Germany, no we weresearching for an organisation with a Franco German identity. Besides,ARTE, as a European Cultural Channel, does not only focus on crossculturalcommunication and management within France and Germany,but also within the whole of Europe.But choosing ARTE made us deal with quite a few challenges, asARTE is an organisation consisting of complexity and sophisticatedstructures. Therefore we divided our work in four parts in order to makeit as understandable as possible: First, we will introduce theorganisation by giving a comprehensive overview, particularly focusingon the history and the different steps of development. After the secondpart, the theoretical frame, we will use the third detailed part to analysethe organisation ARTE using the knowledge of the given theory. Thefourth part will deal with several problems ARTE has to face with andpossible advices connected with the conclusion.