The Department of Foreign Language Business Communication seeks to increase the profile of its research in three particular areas of interest by means of an electronic publication. The WU Online Papers in International Business Communication emerged from the WU's electronic publication forum ePub and comprise three series which correspond to the focus areas of the Department.

In spite of the term "Working Papers" used by ePub, the WU Online Papers in International Business Communication are to be understood as finished articles and NOT as work in progress.

The aim of our Online Papers is to offer quick, easy and full text access to high-quality academic contributions.

Papers that are published in the WU Online Papers in International Business Communication may of course be published elsewhere.

Series One: Intercultural Communication and Language Learning

Paper 1: Gundula Gwenn Hiller: Intercultural Communication between German and Poles at the European University Viadrina

Paper 2: Elena Denisova-Schmidt: Transfer of Western Resource Practices to Russian Subsidiaries

Paper 3: Katharina Klingseis: Casual Wear and Casual Behaviour: the Different Fates of Non-conformism in Russia and 'the West'

Paper 4: Renate Rathmayr: Intercultural Aspects of New Russian Politeness

Paper 5: Christof Heinz: "Understanding What You've Never Learned?" Chances and Limitations of Spontaneous Auditive Transfer Between Slavic Languages

Paper 6: Anne Marie Bülow: E-Mail in International Negotiation

Paper 7: Eva Lavric: Stratégies et identités plurilingues des entreprises et des individus dans les entreprises

Paper 8: Elena Denisova-Schmidt: Human Resource Management in Russia: Some Unwritten Rules

Series Two: Business and Economic Terminology

Paper 1: Gerhard Edelmann: International Accounting Standards and Changes in Accounting Terminology

Submitting a Paper

Requirements:

• Papers may only be submitted by WU-related persons, partners from the departmental research network, as well as lecturers at events organised by the department.

• The topic of the paper must correspond to one of the three series.

• Papers must be strictly academic, finished articles (not a "work in progress"). The recommended length is a max. of 8000 words.

• The papers must be in English and, in special cases, in the language of the intended audience.

• The papers are to be formatted according to the checklist. Please use the template in MS Word format!

Submission:

Papers which fulfill the aforementioned requirements can be submitted to Elisabeth Peters (Managing Editor). Please send the paper in an MS Word format (as per the template) to elisabeth.peters@wu.ac.at. Submitted papers will then be forwarded to the series editors, who will conduct an anonymous peer review.