Language, translation and management knowledge: a research overview

The book provides insights, description, and analysis over the knowledge production process within business, organization, and management research. Importantly, it does so from a language and translation perspective. It critically engages with the role of English in this process, provides theoretical argument for the need to include multilingualism in research. Translation is investigated as a concept for future inquiry.

The book is expressive and formative of language-based research that is gaining momentum in business, management, and organization research. It offers conceptual innovation through a thorough treatment of multilingualism and translation as having potentiality to guide future empirical and theoretical research, and to dispel hidden hegemonic knowledge production practices. The readers will gain insights into the current status quo of language-based inquiry, discussions of multilingualism for research design and be informed about the philosophical underpinnings of language-based research. Specifically, the benefits are: review and summary of key publications in this field; discussion and analysis of hidden assumptions of knowledge production; a critical take on knowledge production; an outline and discussion of implications of multilingual research for research design and methods; discussion of philosophical underpinnings and a vision for future research.

The book is an invaluable source for all research students whose projects contain elements of multilingual research, whether empirical or theoretical. Likewise, the growing body of researchers who take a language-sensitive approach to their research may read it as a source that both 'pulls together' the current knowledge status quo while offering discussions of future trajectories. The book is also extremely useful for the teaching of research methods in undergraduate, postgraduate or also Master or doctoral programmes, in particular as many students are not English native speakers and directly confronted with the subject matter of the book.