Lost in Translation
The Making of Danish Diversity Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758431 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Boxenbaum (0000-0002-7197-9805, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 939-948 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764205285173 |
| OpenAlex | W2009828366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article investigates how a group of Danish business actors translated the American practice of diversity management into a novel managerial practice in Denmark. Their translation process unfolded at three levels: (a) individual preference, (b) strategic reframing, and (c) local grounding. The findings contribute to a better understanding of translation processes and have implications for future research and managerial practice
Business · Business administration · Business practice · Cognitive reframing · Danish · Diversity (politics) · Economics · Knowledge management · Linguistics · Political science · Preference · Sociology · Translation (biology) · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Diversity at Work
Organizations and Culture
Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling
How Actors Change Institutions
(Mis)taking social responsibility? Implementing welfare state reform by private and non-profit organizations
Exploring the many tales behind success
Handling Tensions in Frontline Policy Implementation
Gender Equality Plans and Inclusiveness in the European Research Area
Comparative equality and diversity
Gender diversity and innovation in mining – a corpus-based discourse analysis
Translating a management concept
It was the right thing to do’
Special Review Article
Using systemic functional linguistic metafunction as a tool in identifying Agency in organizational change in cross-cultural management contexts
Managing protean diversity
Development as resistance and translation
Made in Sweden
Doing Diversity
The Case of Vanishing Borders
The Case of Vanishing Borders
Dominant, hidden and forbidden sensemaking
United in Diversity? Disciplinary Normalization in an EU Project
Past, Present, or Future? Managers’ Temporal Orientations and Corporate Climate Action in the Swedish Electricity Sector
Die Bearbeitung von Diversität in Organisationen – Plädoyer zur Erweiterung bisheriger Typologien
The Deconstructed Church
Wer steuert Diversity Management? – Die Akteure im organisationalen Umsetzungsprozess von Gender Diversity am Beispiel eines transnationalen Unternehmens
Localize or local lies? The power of language and translation in the multinational corporation
The Institutional Entrepreneur as Modern Prince
Institutional Change of Accounting Systems
Conforming Critical Diversity
The role of institutional factors in shaping university mission statements
The role of imprinting on the adoption of diversity management in German universities
Diversifizierungsprozesse unternehmerischer Akteure und ihre (möglichen) Folgen
The decentered translation of management ideas
Critical Essay
Hidden contexts and invisible power relations
Local variants of mobile sustainable building assessment models
Taming diversity
Diversity in under-researched countries
Elite entrepreneurship education
Are higher education institutions trapped in conformity? A translation perspective
Filtering Diversity
Breaking Glass Ceilings, Ignoring Dirty Floors
Implementing a diversity policy through public incentives
Exporting the American Model
Developing Difference
Forging Industrial Policy
Power
Institutional Change and Globalization
Theorizing Change
Institutional Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration
The social construction of reality
Globalization and Institutions
Globalization as Hybridization
Power
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Developing Difference
Social movements, field frames and industry emergence
Social Skill and Institutional Theory
How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management
Globalisation as Hybridisation
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |