کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5107202 1377571 2016 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
From dilemmatic struggle to legitimized indifference: Expatriates' host country language learning and its impact on the expatriate-HCE relationship
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
From dilemmatic struggle to legitimized indifference: Expatriates' host country language learning and its impact on the expatriate-HCE relationship
چکیده انگلیسی
We address the lack of knowledge concerning the role of host country languages in multinational corporations based on an inductive qualitative study involving 70 interviews with Nordic expatriates and host country employees (HCE) in China. Building on the strongly discrepant views of expatriates and HCEs, we demonstrate how expatriates' willingness to learn and use the host country language lead to different types of expatriate-HCE relationships, ranging from harmonious to distant or segregated. In doing so, we emphasize the subtle and fragile connection between expatriates' attitude towards HCEs' mother tongue and trust formation in addition to the construction of superiority-inferiority relationships.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of World Business - Volume 51, Issue 5, September 2016, Pages 774-786
نویسندگان
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