Beyond cultural distance: Switching to a friction lens in the study of cultural differences

By Oded Shenkar. Journal of International Business Studies, 2012

217 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Markus Pudelko
2. Palitha Konara
3. Baolian Wang
4. Peixin Li
5. C. Weatherall
6. Anne-Wil Harzing
7. Jiatao Li
8. A. Mohr

In Strategy and Management

1. Markus Pudelko
2. Bo Bernhard Nielsen
3. Palitha Konara
4. Baolian Wang
5. Peixin Li
6. C. Weatherall
7. Anne-Wil Harzing
8. Jiatao Li

Citations in the corpus

• Do cross-border acquisitions create value? Evidence from overseas acquisitions by Chinese firms (2016, background): “(Barkema, Shenkar, Vermuelen, & Bell, 1997; Drogendijk & Slangen, 2006; Lee et al., 2008; but also see Shenkar, 2012 for limitations of this approach).”
• The Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investments: Empirical Evidence and Methodological Challenges (2017, background): “Similarly, IB scholars have produced a large literature looking at the impact of distance on the behavior and performance of MNEs (for reviews, see Shenkar, 2012; Tihanyi, Griffith, & Russell, 2005), and it is generally accepted that the LOF increases proportionally to the distance between home and…”
• Do We Need to Distance Ourselves from the Distance Concept? Why Home and Host Country Context Might Matter More Than (Cultural) Distance (2015, background): “In the end all these additional distance concepts are attempts to reduce complex phenomena to ‘‘questionable and frankly indefensible proxies’’ (Shenkar 2012, p. 16).”
• The Concept of Distance in International Business Research: A Review and Research Agenda (2016, unknown): “No theoretical contributions are missing, but a clear-cut answer to the question: Which distance? Given that this essential question remains unanswered, it is understandable that some scholars claim that the concept of distance is without direction (Shenkar 2012; Zaheer et al. 2012).”
• Why We Should Stop Using the Kogut and Singh Index (2019, background): “However, many scholars’ scepticism with regard to the concept of cultural distance results from the inconsistent results in the prior research employing the KSI and the apparent weak explanatory power of the KSI (Shenkar 2001; Shenkar 2012; Tung and Verbeke 2010).”