Special issue on language in global management and business

Brannen M-Y Piekkari R Tietze S (2014) The multifaceted role of language in international business: unpacking the forms, functions and features of a critical challenge to MNC theory and performance. Journal of International Business Studies 45(5): 495–507.

Brannen M-Y Thomas D-C (2010) Bicultural individuals in organizations implications and opportunity. International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management 10(1): 5–16.

Fleming P Spicer A (2007) Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harzing A-W Pudelko M (2013) Language competencies, policies and practices in multinational corporations: a comprehensive review and comparison of Anglophone, Asian, Continental European and Nordic MNCs. Journal of World Business 48(1): 87–97.

Hinds PJ Neeley TB Cramton CD (2014) Language as a lightning rod: power contests, emotion regulation, and subgroup dynamics in global teams. Journal of International Business Studies 45(5): 536–61.

Janssens M Lambert J Steyaert C (2004) Developing language strategies for international companies: the contribution of translation studies. Journal of World Business 39: 414–30.

Janssens M Steyaert C (2014) Re-considering language within a cosmopolitan understanding: toward a multilingual franca approach in international business studies. Journal of International Business Studies 45(5): 623–39.

Mughan T (2015) Language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core. In: Holden N Michailova S Tietze S (eds), The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management. London: Routledge, pp. 79–84.

Peltokorpi V (2010) Intercultural communication in foreign subsidiaries: the influence of expatriates’ language and cultural competencies. Scandinavian Journal of Management 26(2): 176–88.

Piekkari R Vaara E Tienari J . (2005) Integration or disintegration? Human resource implications of the common corporate language decision in a cross-border merger. International Journal of Human Resource Management 16(3): 333–47.

Piekkari R Welch D Welch L (2014) Language in International Business: The Multilingual Reality of Global Business Expansion. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Piekkari R Welch D Welch L . (2013) Translation behaviour: an explanatory study within a service multinational. International Business Review 22: 771–83.

Sliwa M Johansson M (2014) How non-native English-speaking staff are evaluated in linguistically diverse organizations: a socio-linguistic perspective. Journal of International Business Studies 45(5): 1133–51.

Tietze S (2004) Spreading the management gospel – in English. Language and Intercultural Communication 4(3), 175–89.

Vaara E Tienari J Piekkari R . (2005) Language and the circuits of power in a merging multinational corporation. Journal of Management Studies 42(3): 595–623.