Language Matters: Status Loss and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations

By Tsedal B. Neeley. Organ. Sci., 2013

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Leading across language barriers: Managing language-induced emotions in multinational teams (2015, background): “Among other effects, studies published within the past years found language barriers to create power-authority distortions (Neeley, 2013), impede knowledge sharing (Klitmøller & Lauring, 2013) and the formation of trust (Tenzer et al.”
Re-considering language within a cosmopolitan understanding: Toward a multilingual franca approach in international business studies (2014, background): “Examples are Ong’s (1999) discussion of flexible citizenship, which describes a form of Chinese cosmopolitanism, Appiah’s (1998) description of his father’s distinctively Ghanaian version of cosmopolitanism and Molz’s (2006) empirical study on round-the-world travelers.”
The impact of language barriers on trust formation in multinational teams (2014, background): “Supporting Harrison and Klein’s (2007) proposition that disparity may foster, among other reactions, silence and withdrawal, interviewees who believed that they were less proficient in the shared language than their colleagues feared losing status for this reason (Neeley, 2013) and consequently felt”
The influence of language differences on power dynamics in multinational teams (2017, background): “Neeley (2013) and Neeley & Dumas (2016) enriched this debate by studying language- based changes in MNC employees’ perceived status.”
The effects of linguistic distance and lingua franca proficiency on the stake taken by acquirers in cross-border acquisitions (2015, background): “…differ in their level of English proficiency, keeping their combined English proficiency constant, the less effective their communication (e.g., Neeley, 2013; Hinds et al., 2014), and the higher the level of information asymmetry, and hence the lower the equity taken by an acquirer in a target.”
Does Diversity-Valuing Behavior Result in Diminished Performance Ratings for Non-White and Female Leaders? (2017, background): “Because English proficiency and accents have been shown to influence leader performance ratings (Neeley, 2013), leaderswho reported English as their native tongue were coded 0, whereas leaders who reported being non-native English speakers were coded as 1.”
Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach (2014, background): “As work environments become increasingly global and diverse, the cultural and social challenges of unifying differences while respecting people’s uniqueness will only become greater (Molinsky, 2007; Neeley, 2013).”
Reputation and Status: Expanding the Role of Social Evaluations in Management Research (2016, unknown): “In a related study, Neeley (2012)”