‘Pedagogy as Translation’: Extending the Horizons of Translation Theory

Lamb, Peter R.; Örtenblad, Anders; Hsu, Shih-wei

doi:10.1111/ijmr.12098

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“…witnessed in organisational, business and management research more generally (see Chidlow et al, 2014;Evans et al, 2015;Lamb et al, 2016) and the increased internationalisation of higher education (see Parker, 2011). A total of 63 articles were examined (see Table 1).…”

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Diagnosing the translation gap

Kamla

Komori

2018

AAAJ

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Diagnosing the Translation Gap: The politics of translation and the hidden contradiction in interdisciplinary accounting research Purpose This paper aims to break the silence surrounding the politics of translation that influence cross-language/cultural accounting research. It gives due consideration to the ways in which translation gaps are produced and reproduced in qualitative interdisciplinary accounting research (IAR). Design/methodology/approach First, we discuss backstage insights and our own life experiences vis-à-vis translating cross-cultural /language research. We provide a critical self-reflection on the process as non-Western female researchers publishing in English-language accounting journals. Second, we carry-out a content analysis to examine reported translation practices in three long-established interdisciplinary accounting journals from 2015-2017. The conclusion integrates these analyses to discuss the reproduction process of the translation gap in accounting research and its outcomes. Findings The study identifies inherent contradictions in IAR and its emancipatory agenda, where translation gaps are structural outcomes of overlaps between the politics of translation and the politics of publishing IAR. The study highlights the IAR community's lack of awareness regarding political and methodological sensitivities in dealing with particularities in cultural contexts. We argue that this reflects the institutional norms for publishing in IAR, which contributes to neutralising cultural diversity and complex translation processes in the name of objectivity. This could ultimately lead to further marginalisation of non-Western cultural knowledge and values, while producing academic "elites" within the IAR community, meanwhile missing opportunities for innovation. Originality/contribution By opening the "black box" pertaining to translation gaps in the context of crosslanguage/cultural accounting research, the study calls for IAR scholars to help raise awareness of their role and identity as cultural brokers.

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Diagnosing the translation gap

Kamla

Komori

2018

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“…Finally, in “‘Pedagogy as translation”: extending the horizons of translation theory’, Lamb, Örtenblad and Hsu () do not seek to review the whole field of translation research in management, but focus on deliberate or ‘rationally calculated’ translation by actors. Furthermore, they examine this in the specific context of management education and the translation of western management ideas in non‐western contexts, such as MBA programmes in China.…”

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“…Lamb et al . (), in trying to apply translation theory to cross‐cultural management learning, problematize re‐contextualization as deliberate translation, and encourage further research to investigate the deliberate translation of ideas, more generally, across different managerial ideas and different contexts.…”

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The Translation of Management Knowledge: Challenges, Contributions and New Directions

Spyridonidis

Currie

Heusinkveld

et al. 2016

Int J Management Reviews

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Across many sectors, new developments and discourses that emphasize change, collaboration, shifting professional boundaries and increased sharing of knowledge are taking place. One is thus challenged to question and/or develop further understanding of how and to what extent new ideas, scientific developments and technologies are translated within such contexts and thereby extend management and organization studies. To advance understanding about this significant field in the scholarly community, this special issue has assembled a diverse set of papers, which review developments in translation theory and seek to encourage new thinking and frameworks and open up new directions in management and organization studies more generally. By reflecting on these papers, the authors summarize key challenges in translational research and new framings, and point to exciting new research opportunities that can be found in fruitfully comparing, elaborating, expanding, contrasting and blending extant perspectives.

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“…At the least, researchers also need to learn how best to critically examine CSR. As a complement to researchers' interference in the contextualization of CSR, there is also reason to start educating students in how such a critical examination could be conducted (see Lamb et al 2016;Örtenblad et al 2015). Nevertheless, a basic assumption within the present book is that researchers, better than others, in an unbiased and knowledgeable way, are capable of advising on the relevance of a particular definition of CSR to organizations in different generalized contexts.…”

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Introduction: establishing the art of contextualizing CSR as a research area

Örtenblad¹

2016

Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Context

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CSR has lately become a hugely popular concept (see, for example, Görpe and Öksüz, Chapter 2 in this volume). As Görpe and Öksüz (Chapter 2 in this volume) note, the more irresponsible organizations are, the more reason there could be said to be for organizations to develop plans and strategies for CSR (see also Athanasopoulou and Selsky, Chapter 4 in this volume). Something which is often the case with popular ideas is that in the literature they are described as if they were universally applicable. The following quotes show that this may also be the case for CSR, in at least some of the literature: 'A company that intends to remain competitive in its industry must be seen to be socially responsible' (Idowu and Papasolomou 2007, p. 145); 'We can turn to more independent research about the benefits of CSR. The positive reports in a wide range of examples and in a variety of industries are worth considering. I have not been able to find any research that shows CSR to be a bad thing' (Holme 2010, p. 181); 'Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of increasing concern and holds strategic implications to companies across industries' (Hsu 2012, p. 189). However, if any organization believes that CSR could work for them, without actors first reflecting upon it, then there is a risk that the organization might adopt elements that could prove to be fatal. For this reason there is a need to explore whether a broad, general model of CSR is relevant for organizations in various generalized contexts and, if not, then there is also reason to suggest what kind of CSR model would fit organizations in the generalized contexts where the general model of CSR has shown not to fit fully. Another thing that is common among popular ideas is that they are vague, which also has been argued to be true for CSR (for example,

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‘Pedagogy as Translation’: Extending the Horizons of Translation Theory

Cited by 10 publications

References 53 publications

Diagnosing the translation gap

Diagnosing the translation gap

The Translation of Management Knowledge: Challenges, Contributions and New Directions

Introduction: establishing the art of contextualizing CSR as a research area

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