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Author Wilczewski, Michał, author.

Title Intercultural experience in narrative : expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace / Michał Wilczewski, University of Warsaw
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages)
Series Studies in narrative (SiN), 1568-2706 ; volume 26
Studies in narrative ; v. 26.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 02, 2020)
Subject Intercultural communication -- Poland
Intercultural communication -- China
Cultural relations.
Communication in management -- Social aspects -- Poland
Communication in management -- Social aspects -- China
Multiculturalism -- Poland
Multiculturalism -- China
Communication in management -- Social aspects
Cultural relations
Intercultural communication
Multiculturalism
China
Poland
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019036976
ISBN 9789027261830
9027261830