Language Policies and Communication in Multinational Companies

Vesa Peltokorpi and Floor van den Born
Additional contact information
Vesa Peltokorpi: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Floor van den Born: School of Managment - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This article focuses on the degree of alignment among multinational company (MNC) strategic orientation, human resource management (HRM) practices, and language policies. On the one hand, the authors propose that the coherent, tight alignment among the HRM practices, language policies, and MNC strategic orientation, in terms of ethnocentricity, polycentricity, or geocentricity, is beneficial. On the other hand, they use international business research on language in MNCs to illustrate that what is good in theory is often more difficult in practice. For example, HRM practices and language policies in foreign subsidiaries may not be tightly aligned with the corporate-level activities, and some hybridization tends to occur, for example, because of contextual reasons in host countries.

Keywords: communication; human resource management; strategy; language policy; social identity theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Published in Journal of Business Communication, 2010, 47 (2), pp.97-118. ⟨10.1177/0021943610364515⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00528388

DOI: 10.1177/0021943610364515

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().