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| Author: | Welch, D.E. Welch, L.S. |
| Title: | The Importance of Language in International Knowledge Transfer |
| Journal: | Management International Review
2008 : VOL. 48:3, p. 339-360 |
| Index terms: | languages knowledge communication multinational companies |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the effects of language on the transfer of knowledge within multinational companies. For the analysis, language is separated from cultural context. A basic communication model is used to demonstrate how language affects all stages of the international knowledge transfer process. Various influences -cost, transfer medium, teams, networks, trust, staff movements and motivation- on international knowledge transfer are examined in order to show how language affects their operation. The concept of language as a "reconfiguration agent" is developed to explain the extensive, pervasive, on-going and system-altering characteristics of it. |
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