We investigate how the relevance of the Lean Production System (LPS) as perceived by employees of a Russian bank depends on whether LPS practices are labeled with transliterated original Japanese words or translated Russian words. Building on organizational translation scholarship contextualized to Russia, we formulate hypotheses about the mechanism through which labels affect the perceived relevance of practices. The results of an experimental study situated in a Russian bank show that transliterated Japanese labels have a negative impact on the perceived relevance of LPS practices by Russian employees. Further analysis reveals that this negative perception is fully mediated by the label's semantic fit, that is, the extent to which the label complies with the linguistic codes of the Russian language. Specifically, we find that, on average, the transliterated Japanese labels have a lower semantic fit than the translated Russian labels, and this difference in semantic fit explains the Japanese labels’ lower relevance as perceived by the bank's employees. By unpacking the causal effect of the labels used for management practices on the practices’ perceived relevance, this study advances our understanding of how organizations could influence employees’ acceptance of foreign management practices.

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日本标签对俄罗斯银行精益生产实践相关性的影响

我们调查了俄罗斯银行员工对精益生产系统 (LPS) 的相关性如何取决于 LPS 实践是用音译的原始日语单词还是翻译的俄语单词标记的。基于俄罗斯语境的组织翻译学术，我们提出了关于标签影响实践相关性的机制的假设。在一家俄罗斯银行进行的一项实验研究结果表明，音译的日本标签对俄罗斯员工对 LPS 实践相关性的感知有负面影响。进一步分析表明，这种负面感知完全由标签的语义契合度来调节，即标签符合俄语语言代码的程度。具体来说，我们发现，平均而言，音译日文标签的语义契合度低于翻译俄文标签，这种语义契合度差异解释了银行员工认为日文标签的相关性较低。通过揭示用于管理实践的标签对实践感知相关性的因果影响，本研究加深了我们对组织如何影响员工对外国管理实践的接受度的理解。