Skills, Identity, and Power: The Multifaceted Concept of Language Diversity

Competencias, identidad y poder: las múltiples facetas del concepto de diversidad lingüística

Compétences, identité et pouvoir : les multiples facettes du concept de diversité linguistique

Amy Church-Morel (1) , Anne Bartel-Radic (2)

1 IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie
2 CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion

The study of the multilingual character of multinational companies has grown into a legitimate field of research in international business. This paper provides a conceptualization of one of the central notions in this field: language diversity. We do this by relating of the notion of language diversity to the concept of diversity in three dimensions: variety, separation or disparity. Our theoretical contribution is illustrated and further elaborated through a case study of multilingual team collaboration in the software industry. This paper explores the theory-building potential of stronger connections between diversity scholarship and the language research stream in international business.

Mots clés: Multinational Corporation; Multilingualism; Language management; Language diversity; Language; Diversity

Domaines: Gestion et management

Amy Church-Morel, Anne Bartel-Radic. Skills, Identity, and Power: The Multifaceted Concept of Language Diversity. Management international, 2016, 21 (1), pp.12-24. ⟨10.7202/1052494ar⟩. ⟨halshs-01996048⟩