Managing Trust
Translating and the Network Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4346162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristiina Abdallah (University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland), Kaisa Koskinen (0000-0003-2152-2388, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 673-687 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/017692ar |
| OpenAlex | W2043243894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 16 |
In order to understand recent developments in the field of professional translation, we focus in this article on the contemporary network-based translation industry using Albert-Lázsló Barabási's model of real-world networks and combining it with sociological studies of social capital and trust. According to Barabási, networks are scale-free and therefore fundamentally undemocratic. Barabási's findings can be used not only by researchers in explaining the topology and organizing principles of production networks but also by professional translators as a conceptual tool in making sense of their current working environment. We use empirical evidence from interviews with six Finnish translators, relating what we discover to be the roles of trust, loyalty, and social capital in networks. The findings suggest that (a lack of) trust may be the Achilles' heel of these economic networks
Business · Capital (architecture) · Empirical research · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Focus (optics) · Knowledge management · Loyalty · Order (exchange) · Political science · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Marketing · Translation Studies and Practices
An Adaptive Methodology to Overcome Localization Translation Challenges
Digitalisoituva käännöstyö ja toimijuuden rajat
Communicative Situations and Scenarios across Socio-technical Contexts of In-house Translation Departments at Industrial Enterprises
“A tiny cog in a large machine”
Bad business practices in the language services industry
Towards a new methodological approach to social historiography of translation
What do we know about translators’ job satisfaction
Social groups in machine translationpost-editing
Deconstructing translational trust
Participatory, self-organising, and learning
Contemporary global media circulation based on fan translation
Under pressure
Market concentration in the language services industry and working conditions for translators
Translation as a professional service
Posture in translation
Translating perceptions and managing expectations
The diversification of services in the commercial marketing translation sector
Cooperation with (out) trust
The translator as expert — a realistic or an idealistic model? How recent empirical findings fit into existing models of translation
Translation quality and the role of specifications – How standards can help the translation sector today
From "hairpins" to "flowers
Dynamics of Trusting in Translation Project Management
Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie
Memes of Translation
Unexpected Allies
The field of Cultural Production
Shared culture
Making Democracy Work
How Do We Define Value Chains and Production Networks
Introduction
Embeddedness and Immigration
"The Market for "Lemons
La traductologie, l'ethnographie et la production des connaissances
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |