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作者：Kuznetsov, Andrei; Kuznetsova, Olga
作者单位：University of Lancashire; Manchester Metropolitan University
摘要：Using ethnographic evidence from the former Soviet republics, this paper examines a relatively new and mainly unobserved concept in international business literature: the phenomenon of communication disengagement that manifests itself in many emerging markets. We link it to the deficiencies of the local professional business discourse rooted in language limitations, which reflects a lack of experience with the market economy. This hampers cognitive coherence between foreign and local business ...
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作者：Tenzer, Helene; Pudelko, Markus; Harzing, Anne-Wil
作者单位：Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen; University of Melbourne; heSam Universite; ESCP Business School
摘要：This study systematically investigates how language barriers influence trust formation in multinational teams (MNTs). On the basis of 90 interviews with team members, team leaders and senior managers in 15 MNTs in 3 German automotive corporations, the authors show how MNT members' cognitive and emotional reactions to language barriers influence their perceived trustworthiness and intention to trust, which in turn affect trust formation. The authors contribute to diversity research by distingui...
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作者：Hinds, Pamela J.; Neeley, Tsedal B.; Cramton, Catherine Durnell
作者单位：Stanford University; Harvard University; George Mason University
摘要：Based on an ethnographic study comprising interviews with and observations of -96 globally distributed members of six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs them dynamic common in global teams. Faultlines, formed along the dimensions of asymmetries in lingua franca fluency, location, and nationality of team members, were associated with subgrouping in some but not all of the teams. Our findings suggest that divisi...
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作者：Chidlow, Agnieszka; Plakoyiannaki, Emmanuella; Welch, Catherine
作者单位：Manchester Metropolitan University; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; University of Sydney
摘要：In this paper, we problematise the way translation has been treated in international business (IB) research. We start by conducting an interpretive content analysis of both qualitative and quantitative cross-language studies published in four core IB journals over the course of a decade. Our analysis shows the dominance of a technicist view of translation associated with the equivalence paradigm. In contrast, we advocate a shift to a more contextualised approach informed by theoretical develop...
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作者：Janssens, Maddy; Steyaert, Chris
作者单位：KU Leuven; University of St Gallen
摘要：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 assumptions, we arrive at three different research app...
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作者：Brannen, Mary Yoko; Piekkari, Rebecca; Tietze, Susanne
作者单位：University of Victoria; Aalto University; Keele University
摘要：Language lies at the heart of international business (IB) activities, yet language as a key construct in the field of IB has not been sufficiently articulated or theorized. Language presents itself in forms such as national, corporate, technical or electronic, in functions in terms of defining hierarchies, exercising power or facilitating integration and in features such as the use of mixed syntax or gender-marking. Understanding the complex interplay between the multiple facets of language an...
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作者：Peltokorpi, Vesa; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (JAIST); Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school
摘要：This paper focuses on the multifaceted role of language and language-sensitive recruitment in knowledge transfer in multinational corporations (MNCs). In particular, we develop a framework that helps to better understand how language-sensitive recruitment is related to competence, networks, identity, and power. We started by conducting a qualitative interview-based study of 101 MNC subsidiaries. This analysis elucidates the productive and counterproductive effects of language-sensitive recruit...
