[lg policy] bibitem: The role of language(s) in business: three danish cases and their corporate language policies

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The role of language(s) in business: three danish cases and their
corporate language policies
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	Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural
collaboration table of contents
Copenhagen, Denmark
POSTER SESSION: Poster session 1: intercultural communication, virtual
teams, and technology table of contents
Pages: 207-210
Year of Publication: 2010
ISBN:978-1-4503-0108-4
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Nina Bellak 	 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen , Denmark
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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

This paper examines corporate and individual solutions to overcome
language barriers in international business contexts. Specifically,
attention is focused on decisions that go beyond 'English only'; in
which context and why do languages other than English come into play?
Qualitative interview data, collected from three Danish multinational
corporations (MNCs), provides evidence that languages other than
English are used and needed for several reasons, such as lacking
English skills of interlocutors. A formalized language policy might
help multinationals overcome the language barrier more efficiently and
manage language effectively in the future.

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