This qualitative study investigates how language diversity in multinational teams affects
communication, which, in turn, influences knowledge processing. We show that evident …

This paper reviews language-sensitive research in International Business (IB) by asking
how paradigmatic positions affect knowledge production in this field of study. Paradigms …

We compare migrant professionals' experiences of language-based discrimination across
physical and virtual spaces. The minority status of these professionals stems from their …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the treatment of translation within the international
business and management (IBM) literature to highlight colonialist assumptions inscribed in …

Business and demographic trends are conflating to bring language issues at work to the
forefront. Although language has an inherent capacity for creating interpersonal bonds, it …

Cross-cultural management is an established subfield of international business research
(Brannen & Mughan, 2017), and the study of languages and language diversity has often …

Abstract Language-related IB research predominantly targets large MNCs, often overlooking
the challenges that internationalizing SMEs face in effectively utilizing their limited language …

Research focusing on language issues has been burgeoning in the past two decades in the
fields of international business (IB) and organisation studies (Tenzer et al., 2017; Karhunen …

Individuals' creativity is a key resource underlying organisations' innovativeness. With
workplaces becoming increasingly multilingual, a question of growing relevance concerns …

The importance of language in an international business context cannot be overstated (eg,
Harzing and Pudelko, 2013). Linguistic diversity in many ways serves as a boon for …