TY - JOUR

T1 - Does corporate language influence career mobility?

T2 - Evidence from MNCs in Russia

AU - Latukha, M.

AU - Doleeva, A.

AU - Järlström, M.

AU - Jokinen, T.

AU - Piekkari, R.

N1 - Latukha, M. Does corporate language influence career mobility? Evidence from MNCs in Russia / M. Latukha, A. Doleeva, M. Järlström, T. Jokinen, R. Piekkari // European Management Journal. - 2015. - Volume 33, № 6. - P. 1-6.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - The paper investigates how corporate language influences the career mobility of MNC employees in Russia. We apply human capital theory to show how language may be valued in an organizational context. In our work we use a framework that demonstrates that corporate language may act as a glass ceiling. The results show that employees in Russian MNCs with a lower level of corporate language skills will be less likely to consider vertical and horizontal career mobility than employees with a higher level of these language skills. Equally, employees in Russian MNCs with a lower level of corporate language skills will be less likely to consider internal and external career mobility than those employees with a higher level of these language skills. We prove that corporate language may act both as a barrier and as a facilitator for the career mobility of employees in Russian MNCs who have different levels of corporate language skills.

AB - The paper investigates how corporate language influences the career mobility of MNC employees in Russia. We apply human capital theory to show how language may be valued in an organizational context. In our work we use a framework that demonstrates that corporate language may act as a glass ceiling. The results show that employees in Russian MNCs with a lower level of corporate language skills will be less likely to consider vertical and horizontal career mobility than employees with a higher level of these language skills. Equally, employees in Russian MNCs with a lower level of corporate language skills will be less likely to consider internal and external career mobility than those employees with a higher level of these language skills. We prove that corporate language may act both as a barrier and as a facilitator for the career mobility of employees in Russian MNCs who have different levels of corporate language skills.

KW - corporate language

KW - language skills

KW - career mobility

KW - career development

KW - multinational corporations

KW - Russia

KW - SCOPUS

KW - РИНЦ

U2 - 10.1016/j.emj.2015.12.006

DO - 10.1016/j.emj.2015.12.006

M3 - Article

VL - published on-line

SP - 1

EP - 6

JO - European Management Journal

JF - European Management Journal

SN - 0263-2373

ER -