%0 Journal Article %T The management of cultural adjustment: Central-South-East European ethnic minorities in the USA %A Mihaela ARSENE %J Economia : Seria Management %D 2010 %I Editura ASE %X The paper focuses on one particular instance in the management of change as accomplished/implemented in the USA by the ethnic minorities originally from Italy, Greece and Romania. The author presents a diachronic survey of the literature against the author¡¯s own findings. The paper identifies common patterns in the cultural adjustment of all three ethnic groups surveyed and analyses them against the specific developmental pressures in each group. Historic, economic and sociological data contribute to outlining the distinct profile of each ethnic groups under investigation, as well as the assimilation patterns at work throughout its evolution in the new US cultural environment. %K ethnicity affirmed %K ethnicity under attack %K peripheral ethnicity %U http://www.management.ase.ro/reveconomia/2010-1/16.pdf