Intercultural Experience in Narrative

Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace

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ORCID logoMichał Wilczewski | University of Warsaw
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This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning, and expatriate adjustment in the MNC. This approach offers new insights into intercultural experiences, communication, and cultural challenges faced by an under-researched group of professionals exposed to intensive collaborations with the local managers and employees. The findings also illustrate how the expatriates learned to better navigate the multicultural and multilingual business context and what factors facilitated and inhibited their learning and adjustment. Encouraging the qualitative, context-sensitive examination of expatriate-local personnel interactions, the book will be an invaluable source for scholars and practitioners interested in, among others, novel approaches to investigating language and intercultural communication in international business, cross-cultural management, qualitative cross-cultural research, as well as for lecturers and students interested in Central Europe and China.
[Studies in Narrative, 26] 2019.  xix, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Vasconcelos, Daniel de O. & Julie T. Miao
2023. ‘A stop on the train’: the transient mentality of creative expats in Beijing, China. Mobilities  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Wilczewski, Michał, Zbigniew Wróblewski, Mariusz Wołońciej, Arkadiusz Gut & Ewelina Wilczewska
2020. Spirituality in expatriate experience and coping in mission. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research 8:2  pp. 229 ff. DOI logo
Wołońciej, Mariusz, Michał Wilczewski & Shulamith Kreitler
2021. “Don’t praise the day before the sunset”: Paremiology in the study of depressiveness. Culture & Psychology 27:3  pp. 417 ff. DOI logo

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Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFDM: Bilingualism & multilingualism

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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