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Sarbari Bordia is a Professor of Management and Deputy Director (Research) of the Research School of Management at the Australian National University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an Ed.M. from Temple University, U.S.A. Her multi-disciplinary expertise spans management, applied linguistics, international education, and qualitative research methodology in the social sciences. Sarbari’s research focuses on the intersection of linguistics and corporate communication, examining the role of linguistic identity in international business and migrant workplace contexts. She also investigates the internationalization of management education. Her research has received funding from the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Program, supporting her work on career persistence from socio-cognitive and psychological contract perspectives. Additional grants include support for the Deliberately Differentiated Package Research Program from the Department of Defence, Australia (2021-2024).

Sarbari Bordia’s publications appear in leading journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Key works include “Employees’ willingness to adopt a foreign functional language in multi-lingual organizations: the role of linguistic identity” (Journal of International Business Studies, 2015), “Retiring: Role identity processes in retirement transition” (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2020), “What do employees really want? An exploration of employees’ preferred psychological contract contribution and inducements across career stages” (Human Relations, 2016), and “Handbook of Qualitative Research Methodologies in Workplace Contexts” (2021). She served as founding co-editor of the Journal of International Education in Business (2007-2021) and is a research affiliate at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at ANU. Sarbari received the Best Paper Award at the 2008 US Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Management Education and Development Division. She has held roles including Interim Director of the Research School of Management (2019), Chair of the Gender Equity Committee in the College of Business and Economics (2016-2018), and Deputy Director for Higher Degree by Research (2018, 2020-2021). She teaches qualitative research methodology, cross-cultural management, business communication, negotiation, and English as a second language.