Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 19 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Introduction – critical perspectives on language in international business

Claudine Gaibrois, Philippe Lecomte, Mehdi Boussebaa, Martyna Sliwa

Reversal of language hierarchy and the politics of translation in a multinational corporation

Jonna Ristolainen, Virpi Outila, Rebecca Piekkari

The purpose of this paper is to explain the reversal of language hierarchy in a Finnish multinational corporation (MNC) from a political perspective. This paper situated the…

“It’s hard for them to even understand what we are saying”(.) Language and power in the multinational workplace

Kyoungmi Kim, Jo Angouri

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of language ideologies in negotiating organisational relationships in a Korean multinational company (MNC). By adopting an…

Englishization and the politics of translation

Natalie Victoria Wilmot, Susanne Tietze

This study aims to investigate the treatment of translation within the international business and management (IBM) literature to highlight colonialist assumptions inscribed in…

Contextual and linguistic challenges for French business schools to achieve international accreditation: experts as boundary-spanners

Mary Vigier, Michael Bryant

The purpose of this paper is to explore the contextual and linguistic challenges that French business schools face when preparing for international accreditation and to shed light…

A comparative analysis of corporate social responsibility development in the USA and China

Maoliang Bu, Steven Rotchadl, Mengmeng Bu

This paper aims to conduct a comparative study between the historical development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in both the USA and China. It is motivated by the…

Issue-based environmental sustainability factors in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry: the perspectives of academics

Mfon Solomon Jeremiah, Kassa Woldesenbet Beta, Raphael S. Etim

This study aims to develop a framework that enables the identification of sustainability factors from industry-specific environmental issues, and it proposes that these factors…

Truths and unfreedoms of regimes of insecurity and the resistance of the commons

Srinath Jagannathan, Patturaja Selvaraj

This paper aims to explore narratives of insecurity to understand how the casualisation of the employment relationship makes life more fragile and precarious. The authors engage…

Book review

Frederick Ahen