Purpose – This paper seeks to show how the shift of paid work from traditional locations into the home environment raises serious questions of identity for managers who have started to work from home and who have to “cope with” the sometimes conflicting demands imposed by different...

Drawing on an empirical investigation situated in 25 households of professional managers, who worked regularly at home, this article explores how internalised time discipline is evoked, appropriated and challenged through and in home‐based telework. The notion of clock‐time is opposed with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to systematically summarise and evaluate recent articles on modern homebased work (2000‐2009). In identifying the key recurrent themes and commonalities in the existing research, it brings order to the variety of contributions to provide future...

This title offers a viable alternative to 'functional' approaches to communication which is built around the metaphor of 'webs of meaning' and has semiology as its basis. The authors provide examples to argue the usefulness of this approach in understanding communicative processes

Introduction -- English and management research -- English, language diversity and translation in management research -- Toward a reconfiguration of language diversity and translation in management research -- Developing global literacy for management research -- Conclusion: On being spoken and...

1. Setting the scene -- 2. Language matters -- 3. Management and language -- 4. International management and language -- 5. English as the global lingua franca -- 6. Spreading the management gospel, in English -- 7. German : a language of management designed for Klarheit / Nigel Holden -- 8....

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the treatment of translation within the international business and management (IBM) literature to highlight colonialist assumptions inscribed in this treatment as a result of the hegemonic status of English. Design/methodology/approach: This investigation...

Purpose – To provide insight into the consequences of telework from the perspective of the teleworker and the household. The paper discusses the consequences of telework for the formulation of identities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on empirical work, which comprises...