Natalie Victoria Wilmot - Böcker

This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross‑cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students.This second edition is organized into five thematic areas:• Review, Survey, and Critique• The New International Business Landscape• Language and Languages as Core Dimension of Cross‑Cultural Management• Cross‑Cultural Management and Migration• Cross‑Cultural Management Research: Evolving Paradigms.Edited by an international team of scholars and featuring contributions from a range of leading cross‑cultural management experts, this prestigious second edition represents the most comprehensive guide to the development and scope of cross‑cultural management as an academic discipline. It takes many advancements in the field into account, including language in management and migration, and provides perspectives from around the globe, offering a diverse array of viewpoints. While this volume retains the original edition’s commitment to paradigmatic diversity and broad coverage of contemporary themes in the field, it has been updated to reflect new developments, including societal changes, post‑andemic recovery, and virtual work, and increased interest in intersectionality in cross‑cultural management.

This book draws on case studies of language management within British organisations to examine the decisions they make about language diversity in their professional communications in order to be successful in a multilingual world. It explores the practices that the organisations use to manage language diversity in interorganisational relationships, and why certain practices occur in some situations and not others. The book highlights how organisations rely on individual employees to perform a variety of language tasks and the implications of this; the effect of English as a global lingua franca; and the translation challenges which organisations face. The book demonstrates that practices to manage language diversity are often a result of the resources organisations have at given moments in time, rather than being part of a deliberate language management strategy.