Language of Global Success
How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
(Sprache: Englisch)
For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an...
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For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization - the high-tech giant Rakuten - in the five years following its English lingua franca mandate. Neeley's behind-the-scenes account explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Drawing on 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten's locations in Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States, Neeley argues that an organization's lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of "expat" - someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture. Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she reveals three distinct social groups: "linguistic expats," who live in their home country yet have to give up their native language in the workplace; "cultural expats," or native speakers of the lingua franca, who struggle with organizational values that are more easily transmitted after language barriers are removed; and finally "linguistic-cultural expats," who, while native to neither the lingua franca nor the organization's home culture, surprisingly have the easiest time adjusting to language changes.
Autoren-Porträt von Tsedal Neeley
Tsedal Neeley is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tsedal Neeley
- 2017, 200 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,9 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691175373
- ISBN-13: 9780691175379
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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