Rebecca Piekkari
Biographic Data
| ID | 218121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Piekkari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Piekkari |
| SIGNATURE | PIEKKARI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4026-5850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reclaiming history in IB research
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production
As a disciplinary field, international business (IB) is characterized by language diversity. Too often, however, international business (IB) research regards language diversity as a challenge to be overcome rather than an opportunity to generate new scientific knowledge. Consequently, previous research has primarily focused on the pragmatic, logistical, and methodological hurdles of translating multilingual datasets. In contrast, this conceptual …
Doing good for political gain
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are changing the way multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage with host governments. The SDGs offer MNEs a unique opportunity to build political influence by assisting governments in attaining a host country’s social needs. However, international business scholars have largely remained silent on how MNEs strategize to repurpose ‘doing good’ into political influence. Based on a multiple case s…
Reconciling theory and context
In our Decade Award-winning article from 2011 we argued that it is not possible to explain social phenomena without consideration of their contexts. However, a persistent assumption in international business (IB) is that theories should be context-free. This affects the methodological choices we make, favoring the inductive theory-building approach to theorizing from case studies. In 2011, we proposed an alternative – contextualized explanations …
A processual view of organizational stigmatization in foreign market entry
Multinational organizations increasingly face strong resistance to their market entry by some local audiences, reflecting growing ideological divisions and populism in societies. We turned to the organizational stigma literature for the conceptual tools and vocabulary to uncover why multinationals can simultaneously be praised by some audiences and tainted by others. Drawing on a longitudinal explanatory case study of an unsuccessful market entry…
Reversal of language hierarchy and the politics of translation in a multinational corporation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the reversal of language hierarchy in a Finnish multinational corporation (MNC) from a political perspective. This paper situated the language hierarchy in the historical context of the colonial-style relationship between Finland and Russia. From a post-colonial perspective, the colonial legacy of Russia has had an influence on language strategy and everyday translation work in the Finnish multinati…
Languages and Cross-Cultural Management
The Uneasy Relationship Between the Case Study and Cross-Cultural Management
Roles and identity work in "at-home" ethnography
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on carrying out "at-home" ethnography by building and extending the notion of roles as boundary objects, and to elucidate how evolving roles mediate professional identity work of the ethnographer. Design/methodology/approach In order to theorize about how professional identities and identity work play out in "at-home" ethnography, the study builds on the notion of roles as boundary objects co…
Localize or local lies? The power of language and translation in the multinational corporation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to previous research on intraorganizational power in multinational corporations (MNCs). It shows that a subsidiary manager may use language and acts of translation to resist control from headquarters and to (re)define his and his unit’s power position in a headquarters-subsidiary relationship. It also uncovers the interplay between natural languages and “company speak” as a specialized language…
Rethinking the Case Study in International Business and Management Research
Pluralism in International Business and International Management Research
1. Pluralism in international business and international management research: making the case Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch INTRODUCTION The purpose of the present volume is to bring together a variety of perspectives on the case study and
International management
Crossing language boundaries
Gendered Leaderships and Leaderships on Gender Policy
Although mainstream research on leadership, organizations and management generally continues to ignore gender relations, over recent years there has been major expansion of international research on gender relations in organizations. This article examines a key aspect of gender leadership (and indeed non-leadership), namely that on gender policy development in large transnational businesses. Three levels of analysis of gendered leaderships and no…
Index
Interviewing in the Multinational Corporation
Language and Languages in Cross-cultural Interviewing
Qualitative Research Methods in International Business
This innovative Handbook draws together and reflects on the specific methodological challenges that an international business scholar is likely to face when undertaking a qualitative research project
Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business
Foreword by Peter Buckley - Vignette: Observations from a Lifetime of Interviewing Foreword - Vignette: Interviews: A Key Data Source in International Business Research Part I: Trends and Prospects in International Business Research Part II: Case Study Research Part III: Interviewing in International Business Research Part IV: Alternative Methods and Methodologies Part V: Researching Outside the Triad Part VI: From Analysis to Publication Index
Corporate elites as informants in qualitative international business research
The Persistent Impact of Language on Global Operations
In studies of firms' internationalisation, language has tended to be bundled into 'cultural and psychic distance boxes'. In this article, an attempt is made to unbundle the impact of language through (a) an examination of the way in which language influences the pattern of foreign market expansion; and (b) an analysis of how a firm may try to cope with language diversity by adopting a common corporate language. We conclude that attempts to impose…
In the shadow
Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business
Foreword by Peter Buckley - Vignette: Observations from a Lifetime of Interviewing Foreword - Vignette: Interviews: A Key Data Source in International Business Research Part I: Trends and Prospects in International Business Research Part II: Case Study Research Part III: Interviewing in International Business Research Part IV: Alternative Methods and Methodologies Part V: Researching Outside the Triad Part VI: From Analysis to Publication Index
Roles and identity work in "at-home" ethnography
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on carrying out "at-home" ethnography by building and extending the notion of roles as boundary objects, and to elucidate how evolving roles mediate professional identity work of the ethnographer. Design/methodology/approach In order to theorize about how professional identities and identity work play out in "at-home" ethnography, the study builds on the notion of roles as boundary objects co…
Gendered Leaderships and Leaderships on Gender Policy
Although mainstream research on leadership, organizations and management generally continues to ignore gender relations, over recent years there has been major expansion of international research on gender relations in organizations. This article examines a key aspect of gender leadership (and indeed non-leadership), namely that on gender policy development in large transnational businesses. Three levels of analysis of gendered leaderships and no…
In the shadow
The Persistent Impact of Language on Global Operations
In studies of firms' internationalisation, language has tended to be bundled into 'cultural and psychic distance boxes'. In this article, an attempt is made to unbundle the impact of language through (a) an examination of the way in which language influences the pattern of foreign market expansion; and (b) an analysis of how a firm may try to cope with language diversity by adopting a common corporate language. We conclude that attempts to impose…
Corporate elites as informants in qualitative international business research
Index
Interviewing in the Multinational Corporation
Language and Languages in Cross-cultural Interviewing
Qualitative Research Methods in International Business
This innovative Handbook draws together and reflects on the specific methodological challenges that an international business scholar is likely to face when undertaking a qualitative research project
Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business
Foreword by Peter Buckley - Vignette: Observations from a Lifetime of Interviewing Foreword - Vignette: Interviews: A Key Data Source in International Business Research Part I: Trends and Prospects in International Business Research Part II: Case Study Research Part III: Interviewing in International Business Research Part IV: Alternative Methods and Methodologies Part V: Researching Outside the Triad Part VI: From Analysis to Publication Index
Gendered Leaderships and Leaderships on Gender Policy
Although mainstream research on leadership, organizations and management generally continues to ignore gender relations, over recent years there has been major expansion of international research on gender relations in organizations. This article examines a key aspect of gender leadership (and indeed non-leadership), namely that on gender policy development in large transnational businesses. Three levels of analysis of gendered leaderships and no…
Crossing language boundaries
International management
Rethinking the Case Study in International Business and Management Research
Pluralism in International Business and International Management Research
1. Pluralism in international business and international management research: making the case Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch INTRODUCTION The purpose of the present volume is to bring together a variety of perspectives on the case study and
Localize or local lies? The power of language and translation in the multinational corporation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to previous research on intraorganizational power in multinational corporations (MNCs). It shows that a subsidiary manager may use language and acts of translation to resist control from headquarters and to (re)define his and his unit’s power position in a headquarters-subsidiary relationship. It also uncovers the interplay between natural languages and “company speak” as a specialized language…
Roles and identity work in "at-home" ethnography
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on carrying out "at-home" ethnography by building and extending the notion of roles as boundary objects, and to elucidate how evolving roles mediate professional identity work of the ethnographer. Design/methodology/approach In order to theorize about how professional identities and identity work play out in "at-home" ethnography, the study builds on the notion of roles as boundary objects co…
Languages and Cross-Cultural Management
The Uneasy Relationship Between the Case Study and Cross-Cultural Management
A processual view of organizational stigmatization in foreign market entry
Multinational organizations increasingly face strong resistance to their market entry by some local audiences, reflecting growing ideological divisions and populism in societies. We turned to the organizational stigma literature for the conceptual tools and vocabulary to uncover why multinationals can simultaneously be praised by some audiences and tainted by others. Drawing on a longitudinal explanatory case study of an unsuccessful market entry…
Reversal of language hierarchy and the politics of translation in a multinational corporation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the reversal of language hierarchy in a Finnish multinational corporation (MNC) from a political perspective. This paper situated the language hierarchy in the historical context of the colonial-style relationship between Finland and Russia. From a post-colonial perspective, the colonial legacy of Russia has had an influence on language strategy and everyday translation work in the Finnish multinati…
Reconciling theory and context
In our Decade Award-winning article from 2011 we argued that it is not possible to explain social phenomena without consideration of their contexts. However, a persistent assumption in international business (IB) is that theories should be context-free. This affects the methodological choices we make, favoring the inductive theory-building approach to theorizing from case studies. In 2011, we proposed an alternative – contextualized explanations …
Doing good for political gain
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are changing the way multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage with host governments. The SDGs offer MNEs a unique opportunity to build political influence by assisting governments in attaining a host country’s social needs. However, international business scholars have largely remained silent on how MNEs strategize to repurpose ‘doing good’ into political influence. Based on a multiple case s…
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production
As a disciplinary field, international business (IB) is characterized by language diversity. Too often, however, international business (IB) research regards language diversity as a challenge to be overcome rather than an opportunity to generate new scientific knowledge. Consequently, previous research has primarily focused on the pragmatic, logistical, and methodological hurdles of translating multilingual datasets. In contrast, this conceptual …
Reclaiming history in IB research
Sociology (15 works) · International business (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (8 works) · Business (7 works) · International Business and FDI (7 works) · Management (7 works) · Global and Cross-Cultural Management (6 works)