Intercultural experience in narrative : expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace / Michał Wilczewski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilczewski, Michał, author.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; 26.

Studies in narrative ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--China.

Intercultural communication.

Intercultural communication--Poland.

Multiculturalism--China.

Multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism--Poland.

Communication in management--Social aspects--China.

Communication in management.

Communication in management--Social aspects--Poland.

Cultural relations--China.

Cultural relations.

Cultural relations--Poland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of figures

List of tables

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Setting the research scene

Chapter 2. Expatriate-local personnel communication in the MNC

Chapter 3. Narrative approach to studying intercultural experiences

Chapter 4. Learning cultures

Chapter 5. Expatriate adjustment to the host country

Part II. Polish expatriates in the Chinese subsidiary of a Western European MNC

Chapter 6. Research design

Chapter 7. Language and intercultural communication issues

Chapter 8. Learning decision-making processes

Chapter 9. Learning local management processes and working styles of cultural others

Chapter 10. General discussion and conclusion

Appendix 1. Basic phases of narrative interview (adapted from Jovchelovitch & Bauer, 2000)

Appendix 2. Demographic questionnaire

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027261830

9027261830