Understanding the dynamics of language and multilingualism in professional contexts : advances in language-sensitive management research

edited by Philippe Lecomte (President of GEM&L, Retired professor of International Communication, Toulouse Business School), Mary Vigier (Professor Emeritus, Department of Management, ESC Clermont Business School, France), Claudine Gaibrois (Professor of Global and Intercultural Management, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School and External Lecturer in Language Diversity, Research Institute for Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), and Betty Beeler (Retired Professor of Intercultural Management, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Saint-Etienne, France)

"This book provides readers with the latest research on the dynamics of language and language diversity in professional contexts. Bringing together novel findings from a range of disciplines, it challenges practitioners and management scholars to question the conventional understanding of language as a tool that can be managed by language policies that 'standardize' language. Each of the contributions is designed to recognize the strides that have been made in the past two decades in research on language and languages in organizational settings while addressing remaining blind spots and emerging issues. Particular attention is given to multilingualism, socio-linguistic approaches to language in the workplace, migration challenges, critical perspectives on the power of language use and the management of organizations as dialogical, discursive spaces. Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts offers new insights into familiar and less familiar issues for international business scholars, sociolinguists, management practitioners and business communication scholars and experts, and brings understanding to the central role that language usage and linguistic diversity play in organizational processes"--

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Year of publication:	2023
Other Persons:	Lecomte, Philippe (ed.) ; Vigier, Mary (ed.) ; Gaibrois, Claudine (ed.) ; Beeler, Betty (ed.)
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject:	Organisationsforschung \| Organizational research \| Sprache \| Language \| Mehrsprachigkeit \| Multilingualism \| Sprachpolitik \| Language policy \| Personalmanagement \| Human Resource Management \| Internationale Geschäftsbeziehungen \| International business

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Foreword -- Introduction to understanding the dynamics of language and multilingualism in professional contexts / Betty Beeler, Mary Vigier, Claudine Gaibrois and Philippe Lecomte -- Part I. Multilingualism in a rapidly changing world: New perspectives on language differences in organisations -- 1. Introduction to multilingualism in a rapidly changing world: New perspectives on language differences in organisations / Claudine Gaibrois -- 2. Recognition theory: A new lens for investigating language differences in multilingual organisations / Marjana Johansson and Martyna Śliwa -- 3. Diversity, activation and self-support: Clashing institutional logics around the inclusion of refugees on the labour market / Dorte Lønsmann -- 4. Agency and multilingualism in public health care: How practitioners draw on local experiences and encounters / Yaron Matras, Rebecca Tipton and Leonie Gaiser -- Part II. Language practices in multilingual workplaces and implications for human resource management -- 5. Introduction to language practices in multilingual workplaces and implications for human resource management / Mary Vigier -- 6. Ethnographic study of a manager's engagements with written 'english' workplace genres in mncs / Tiina Räisänen and Anne Kankaanranta -- 7. Revisiting ethnography and reflexivity for language-sensitive workplace research / Kristina Humonen and Jo Angouri -- 8. Multilingual organisations: Employee motives and human resource management adaptive strategies / John Fiset -- Part III. Organisations as discursive, polyphonic spaces: A multidisciplinary approach -- 9. Introduction to organisations as discursive, polyphonic spaces: A multidisciplinary approach / Betty Beeler -- 10. Organizing through and by multilingualism: Writing languages into the study and practices of organizations / Marjana Johansson and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen -- 11. Revisiting identity-construction in the multilingual workplace: An intersectional approach / Linda Cohen and Jane Kassis-Henderson -- 12. Duality of language as a tool for integration versus mobility at work: Utility of a polyphonic perspective / Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Sercan Hamza Bağlama -- Part IV. Different critical perspectives on the power of language in international business -- 13. Introduction to different critical perspectives on the power of language in international business / Philippe Lecomte -- 14. Language in multilingual organizations: Power, policies and politics / Guro R. Sanden -- 15. Voices in the employee magazine: A critical investigation / Peter Kastberg and Marianne Grove Ditlevsen -- 16. Let us (not) speak Finnish! On language, power relations and ambivalence / Janne Tienari -- Conclusion to understanding the dynamics of language and multilingualism in professional contexts / Claudine Gaibrois, Betty Beeler, Philippe Lecomte and Mary Vigier -- Index.
ISBN:	978-1-78990-678-3 ; 978-1-78990-677-6
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781789906783 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10014246338