Skills, Identity, and Power: The Multifaceted Concept of Language Diversity

Competencias, identidad y poder: las múltiples facetas del concepto de diversidad lingüística

Amy Church-Morel and Anne Bartel-Radic ()
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Amy Church-Morel: IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Anne Bartel-Radic: CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]

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Abstract: The study of the multilingual character of multinational companies has grown into a legitimate field of research in international business. This paper provides a conceptualization of one of the central notions in this field: language diversity. We do this by relating of the notion of language diversity to the concept of diversity in three dimensions: variety, separation or disparity. Our theoretical contribution is illustrated and further elaborated through a case study of multilingual team collaboration in the software industry. This paper explores the theory-building potential of stronger connections between diversity scholarship and the language research stream in international business.

Keywords: Multinational Corporation; Multilingualism; Language management; Language diversity; Language; Diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2016, 21 (1), pp.12-24. ⟨10.7202/1052494ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1052494ar

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