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Volume 10, Issue 2
1 June 2003
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Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal
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Research Article| June 01 2003

Language management in multinational companies

Alan J. Feely;
Alan J. Feely
Aston Business School, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7NT, England
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Anne‐Wil Harzing
Anne‐Wil Harzing
University of Melbourne, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Parkville campus, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6089
Print ISSN: 1352-7606
© MCB UP Limited
2003
Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2003) 10 (2): 37–52.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13527600310797586

The importance of language management in multinational companies has never been greater than today. Multinationals are becoming ever more conscious of the importance of global coordination as a source of competitive advantage, and language remains the ultimate barrier to aspirations of international harmonisation. The article reviews the solutions open to multinational companies in term of language management. Before that, however, it discusses the aforementioned trend to globalisation outlines the dimensions of the language barrier and illustrates its consequences.

Keywords: Language management, Multinational companies, Language barrier
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