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Publication details [#64595]

Wilczewski, Michał, Anne-Marie Søderberg and Arkadiusz Gut. 2018. Intercultural communication within a Chinese subsidiary of a Western MNC: Expatriate perspectives on language and communication issues. Multilingua 37 (6) : 587–612.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper explores Polish expatriates’ stories of encounters with local personnel in a Chinese subsidiary of a Western multinational company. Language-linked matters impeded the expatriates from obtaining information from Chinese superiors, learning about troubles within a team, and partaking in decision-making.