Chapter published in:
Intercultural Experience in Narrative: Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace
Michał Wilczewski
[Studies in Narrative 26] 2019
► pp. 26–47

Chapter 2
Expatriate-local personnel communication in the MNC

Article outline
  • 2.0Introduction
  • 2.1The business expatriate
  • 2.2Culture
    • 2.2.1The essentialist view
    • 2.2.2The non-essentialist view
  • 2.3Intercultural communication
    • 2.3.1Communication as a socially grounded process of sharing meanings
    • 2.3.2Intercultural communication as a process of sharing meanings with cultural others
  • 2.4Cultural diversity in MNCs
  • 2.5State of the art: Expatriate-local personnel communication in the MNC
  • 2.6Conclusion