Languages and Cross-Cultural Management

Tietze, Susanne; Piekkari, Rebecca

doi:10.4135/9781529714340.n15

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“…For a considerable period of time, IB was "translation-blind" and did not seriously engage with the notion of translation beyond concerns for back translation in cross-cultural and comparative empirical research. Through the establishment and influence of a sub-field titled languagesensitive IB research, language plurality became a legitimate phenomenon of study and translation a significant part of exploring cross-border exchanges (Tenzer et al 2017;Tietze and Piekkari 2020). Consequently, more specific questions arose about the role of translation in mediating language plurality as well as the use of English as a global lingua franca.…”

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“…Tenzer, Terjesen and Harzing (2017) accept the "transformative power of translation" (Brannen, Piekkari, and Tietze 2014:501) and encourage researchers to transcend disciplinary boundaries and turn to translation studies. Tietze and Piekkari (2020) capture the momentum of this field as being based on three significant junctures of development (Language as sideshow, late 1980s to 2010; gaining momentum 2011 to 2014 and from 2015 onwards into the future). These authors see translation as a way to break away from the dominance of English as the pre-given language of knowledge production in IB and therefore as a major concept for future research.…”

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“…In this entry, we argue that the integration of translation into the intellectual trajectory of IB is currently gaining momentum (e.g., Tietze and Piekkari 2020;Westney and Piekkari 2020). A sub-stream in IB, commonly referred to as language sensitive research, has emerged, establishing language plurality and its consequences as a central area of study (Brannen, Piekkari, and Tietze, 2014).…”

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International business and translation

Piekkari

Tietze

2021

Handbook of Translation Studies

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International business and translation

Piekkari

Tietze

2021

Handbook of Translation Studies

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“…The period of publication was determined as the period between 1997 and 2019, as 1997 saw the landmark publication by Marschan et al (1997), which began to establish language as a legitimate and distinct area of study within international business (Brannen et al , 2014; Tietze and Piekkari, 2020). To perform the search, Scopus was used, as the largest scholarly database on business and management texts, to access a wide cross-section of articles.…”

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Englishization and the politics of translation

Wilmot

Tietze

2020

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the treatment of translation within the international business and management (IBM) literature to highlight colonialist assumptions inscribed in this treatment as a result of the hegemonic status of English. Design/methodology/approach This investigation takes the form of a systemic literature review to examine the treatment of translation in the IBM literature through a postcolonial lens. Findings The findings demonstrate that despite growing interest in language in international business, matters of translation have received comparatively little attention. However, those articles that do address translation matters tend to do so in five key ways, including epistemological/methodological considerations, exploring translator agency, the investigations of the discursive void/conceptual fuzziness between languages, and approaches that discuss translation as social practice. Research limitations/implications Despite the authors’ critique of English-language hegemony, this literature review is restricted to English-language journals, which the authors acknowledge as problematic and discuss within the article. Practical implications In exposing the limited treatment of translation within the literature, the authors provide a call to action for IBM scholars to be more explicit in their treatment of translation to ensure representation of cultural and linguistic Others, rather than providing domesticated accounts of multilingual research. Originality/value Although there have been other articles that have examined translation in the past, this paper is the first to do so through a postcolonial lens, demonstrating from a linguistic perspective the colonialist assumptions that are still prevalent in IBM knowledge production, as evidenced by the treatment of translation in the field.

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“…Over the past two decades, the issue of (natural) language has attracted increasing critical attention in the field of international business (IB) and management studies more broadly (Tietze and Piekkari, 2020; Wilmot, 2017). While a managerialist-functionalist perspective dominates the field, a growing body of research has turned attention to questions of power and politics.…”

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