The Role of Language in Knowledge Transfer to Geographically Dispersed Manufacturing Operations
Abstract
This study proposes a model of the effects of language on knowledge transfer to geographically dispersed operations. Rather than focusing on the distance between two language groups, we look at the commonalities between their languages, introducing the construct of linguistic relatedness as a way to measure the overlap in the structural features of the dominant languages at play between firms and their overseas manufacturing operations. We focus...
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Title
The Role of Language in Knowledge Transfer to Geographically Dispersed Manufacturing Operations
Published Date
Mar 1, 2014
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
55 - 72
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