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  • 01 May 2009
  • Conference Presentation

Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchy

By: Tsedal Neeley
Keywords: Communication; Status and Position
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  • 1 Jul 2009
  • Conference Presentation

Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchy

By: Tsedal Neeley
Keywords: Communication; Status and Position
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  • 1 Jul 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Language Matters: Lingua Franca Mandates and Status Hierarchies in Global Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley
Keywords: Status and Position; Organizations
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  • 2014
  • Chapter

The Language of Global Management

By: Tsedal Neeley
Over the last two decades, organizations seeking global expansion have been mandating an English lingua franca, or common language to facilitate global collaboration regardless of the country location of their headquarters. This article explains why stipulating a... View Details
Keywords: Language; Lingua Franca; Networks; Governance; Information Technology; Management; Ethics; Emerging Markets; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2009
  • Simulation

Tip of the Iceberg: Global English Lingua Franca Simulation (TIP)

By: Tsedal Neeley
Keywords: Communication; Globalization
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  • Research Summary

Lingua Franca Use with Professor Tsedal Neeley and Professor Jeff Polzer

In a laboratory setting, we tested the casual effect of an English-only mandate on nonnative speakers' perceptions of status differences vis-à-vis native speakers, and investigated the role of English fluency as a marker of an achieved status in moderating... View Details
  • 5 Aug 2005 - 10 Aug 2005
  • Conference Presentation

Language Challenges in International Work: The Impact of Uneven Proficiency in the Lingua Franca

By: T. Beyene, P.J. Hinds and C. D. Cramton
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  • 2009
  • Tool

Facilitator's Guide: Tip of the Iceberg: Global English Lingua Franca Simulation (TIP)

By: Tsedal Neeley
Keywords: Communication; Globalization
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  • Jul 2015
  • Conference Presentation

Can a Lingua Franca Create Unearned Status Gain for Native Speakers in Global Organizations?

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
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  • 9 Aug 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Global Language Strategies: The Impact of Mandating English as a Lingua Franca in Global Work

By: Tsedal Neeley
Keywords: Strategy; Global Range
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  • 2017
  • Book

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States
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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • Book

Using Language to Build a Global Company

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

describe in detail how emotions and actions evolved recursively as coworkers sought to relieve themselves of negative emotions prompted by the lingua franca mandate and inadvertently behaved in ways that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley, Pamela J. Hinds & Catherine Durnell Cramton
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work

By: Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine Durnell Cramton
In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Globalized Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

forthcoming Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations By: Neeley, Tsedal Abstract—For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

more efficient, the use of such a lingua franca can add layers of complication and delay. And instead of fostering collaboration, it can create cultural fissures between employees. “It's volcanic, waiting... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 14 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

Some of this surely stemmed from language considerations. To an extent, the Indians' greater command of the world's lingua franca will lubricate the inevitably-difficult integration process. Fourth, the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

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