Performance effects of “added cultural distance” in the path of international expansion: the case of German multinational enterprises

By Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Johannes C. Voll. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The Impact of Added Cultural Distance and Cultural Diversity on International Expansion Patterns: A Penrosean Perspective (2011, unknown): “This alternative measurement overcomes some of the criticism voiced against the Hofstede measurement (see Hutzschenreuter and Voll (2008) for details).”
Cultural differences, MNE learning abilities, and the effect of experience on subsidiary mortality in a dissimilar culture: Evidence from Korean MNEs (2013, methodology): “…the “distance” between two countries using cultural values obtained from studies such as Hofstede (1980) or the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004) (e.g., Hutzschenreuter & Voll, 2008; Kogut & Singh, 1988).”
Sequencing the expansion of geographic scope and foreign operations by “born global” firms (2011, methodology): “…with the expansion of a single path in a given time period, lie in the limited ability of internationalizing firms in general, and born global firms in particular, to handle complexity successfully in a given time period (Hutzschenreuter & Voll, 2008; Vermeulen & Barkema, 2002; Wagner, 2004).”
The impact of cultural diversity in corporate boards on firm performance (2016, unknown): “…context of multinational organizations and how cultural diversity within the multinational affects the performance of these multinational firms (see Hutzschenreuter and Voll, 2008; and De Jong and van Houten, 2014). decisions, in hiring, assessing and firing top managers.3 Given the importance of…”
Beyond Hofstede and GLOBE: Improving the quality of cross-cultural research (2010, background): “Second, international experience can go a long way to alleviating distance challenges in IB (Hutzschenreuter & Voll, 2008; Hutzschenreuter et al., 2010).”
The Impact of Institutional and Human Resource Distance on International Entry Strategies (2009, background): “Moreover, the distance between the new operation and the nearest existing affiliate, rather than headquarters, may be the relevant dimension for distance effects (Hutzschenreuter and Voll, 2008), especially when this nearest affiliate is in the same country.”
Foreign market entry mode choice of small and medium-sized enterprises: A systematic review and future research agenda (2014, background): “A significant body of literature focusing on large MNEs investigates the role of international equity experience in firms’ internationalization (e.g., Barkema, Bell, & Pennings, 1996; Hutzschenreuter & Voll, 2008; Lu, 2002).”
Curvilinear relationship between cultural distance and equity participation: An empirical analysis of cross-border acquisitions (2011, unknown): “(1) to calculate the index for the GLOBE national cultural measures; this approach is also similar to the one Hutzschenreuter and Voll (2008) used.”
The Concept of Distance in International Business Research: A Review and Research Agenda (2016, unknown): “Hutzschenreuter and Voll (2008) introduce the closest neighbor approach, which takes into account a firm’s entire portfolio of countries.”
The role of path dependency and managerial intentionality: a perspective on international business research (2007, background): “…and Lewin, 2003; Volberda, 2005) of internationalization, stressing the interactions between managerial intentionality, path-dependent experience (Hutzschenreuter and Voll, 2008) and knowledge accumulation (Pedersen et al., 2003), as well as the institutional and selection forces (see Figure…”