PhD defence: Guro Refsum Sanden

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Guro Refsum Sanden has submitted her thesis entitled: Language strategies in multinational corporations. A cross-sector study of financial service companies and manufacturing companies

Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 10:00 to 12:00

Situated at the intersection of sociolinguistics and international business and management studies, this PhD project focuses on language management in two different industry sectors, namely the financial service sector and the manufacturing sector. Employing a multiple case study design consisting of two matched pair cases, the study examines the means by which language is managed, i.e. language management tools, in the two financial service companies Nordea and Saxo Bank and the two manufacturing companies Grundfos and ECCO. The contribution of the thesis lies in capturing the effect of industry sectors on corporate language management – a level of analysis which has largely been overlooked in previous research.

Supervisors:
Associate Professor Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen
Department of English Germanic and Romance Studies
University of Copenhagen

Vice Dean, Professor Rebecca Piekkari
Department of Management Studies   
Aalto University
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor emeritus Robert Phillipson  (Chair)
Department of International Business Communication
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Susanne Tietze
Keele Management School
Keele University

Head of Research Services Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen
Centre for Research and International Affairs
Hanken School of Economics
 
Thesis:
The thesis is available here
 
Reception:
The Doctoral School of LIMAC will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in 2V.071 (Dalgas Have 15).
 

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