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Duro-Moreno, Miguel Jesús 2025-03-24T13:30:24Z 2025-03-24T13:30:24Z 2022 Sandra Bibiana Clavijo Olmos y Miguel Duro Moreno, «Translating in Turbulent Times – Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis on the Language Service Industry in Colombia and Spain: Perspectives to Become Sustainable». En Handbook of Research on Organizational Sustainability in Turbulent Economies (Rafael Pérez-Uribe et al., directores), pp. 335-354, Hershey (Pensilvania), IGI Global, 2022 9781799893011 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38225 10.4018/978-1-7998-9301-1.ch018 The language service industry was deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The turbulent times faced because of COVID-19 changed the way LSPs made decisions and delivered services to their customers. LSPs had to react by adapting themselves to the unexpected new market game. This study scrutinizes what COVID-19 meant for the LSPs based in Colombia and Spain, and how they were tackled from those two different markets. Colombia, a developing country with an industry almost exclusively made up of independent freelance translators and interpreters, faced the crisis both distressingly and smartly. Spain, a developed country with a stronger language industry, coped with the COVID-19-induced economic calamity in a quite analogous fashion. In both cases, uncertainty led LSPs to make decisions, clarify their visions, and make a clear commitment to becoming sustainable in the global market. An in-depth analysis of how those two industries behaved might be useful to draw important conclusions on how a crisis can become an opportunity if properly managed. eng open access Servicios de traducción COVID-19 - Influencia y consecuencias Translating in Turbulent Times – Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis on the Language Service Industry in Colombia and Spain: Perspectives to Become Sustainable. book part