Psychic Distance and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Examination of International Retailing Operations

By Jody Evans, F. Mavondo. 2002

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The effect of cultural distance on entry mode choice, international diversification, and MNE performance: a meta-analysis (2005, background): “For example, Brouthers and Brouthers (2001) and Evans and Mavondo (2002) argue that the results derived from decades of research provide no clear consensus regarding the effect of cultural distance.”
Does psychic distance moderate the market size–entry sequence relationship? (2008, methodology): “…one of the most enduring streams of work within the international business domain (Child et al., 2002; Dow, 2000; Dow & Karunaratna, 2006; Engwall & Wallenstål, 1988; Evans & Mavondo, 2002; Nordström & Vahlne, 1994; O’Grady & Lane, 1996; Sousa & Bradley, 2006; Stöttinger & Schlegelmilch, 1998).”
Determinants of cross-national knowledge transfer and its effect on firm innovation (2007, background): “The incremental strategic process of using familiar knowledge has been found to positively affect firm performance (Evans and Mavondo, 2002).”
Widening the lens: Rethinking distance, diversity, and foreignness in international business research through positive organizational scholarship (2016, result): “Consistent with this line of reasoning, several studies have found evidence that MNEs may obtain better performance in distant markets (e.g., Evans & Mavondo, 2002; Magnusson, Schuster, & Taras, 2014).”
Global markets: does psychic distance matter? (2005, methodology): “The psychic distance concept has been used in the literature to assess these differences between markets (Shoham and Albaum, 1995; Evans and Mavondo, 2002; Grosse and Trevino, 1996; O’Grady and Lane, 1996).”
Cultural distance and psychic distance: refinements in conceptualisation and measurement (2008, methodology): “Hallen and Wiedersheim-Paul (1984), for instance, referred to psychic distance at the firm-level as interorganisational distances.”
Psychic Distance: Antecedents, Retail Strategy Implications, and Performance Outcomes (2008, methodology): “62 Jody Evans, Felix T. Mavondo, and Kerrie Bridson Nordstrom, Kjell and Jan-Erik Vahlne (1994), “Is the Globe Shrinking?”
The PD scale: a measure of psychic distance and its impact on international marketing strategy (2011, background): “Despite the existing variety of definitions of psychic distance, a limitation of most definitions is the failure to incorporate the perception aspect of psychic distance (Evans and Mavondo, 2002).”
Psychic distance, marketing strategy and performance in export ventures of Brazilian firms (2009, background): “Nevertheless, this is consistent with previous results reported by O’Grady and Lane (1996) and Evans and Mavondo (2002).”
Closing knowledge gaps in foreign markets (2008, background): “Problems occur for entrant firms if inappropriate inferences are made regarding the causalities between behavior and outcome as a result of the uncritical transfer of experience from one market to another ( Evans & Mavondo, 2002; Morosini, Shane, & Singh, 1998; O’Grady & Lane, 1996).”
Institutional Distance and Foreign Subsidiary Performance in Emerging Markets: Moderating Effects of Ownership Strategy and Host-Country Experience (2016, unknown): “…cultural and psychic distance is a positive driver of MNEs’ foreign afﬁliates’ performance in other contexts, such as in the global retail industry (Evans and Mavondo 2002; Evans et al. 2008) and among foreign subsidiaries in speciﬁc emerging market regions such as Central and Eastern Europe…”
The Internet as an alternative path to internationalization (2013, methodology): “A fairly recent study tries to conceptualize and operationalize psychic distance as a multiple dimension, including business and cultural distance (Evans and Mavondo, 2002).”
Current debates in global strategy (2009, unknown): “Second, the view exists that cultural distance is just one of many factors to consider when firms go abroad (Evans and Mavondo 2002).”
Consumer engagement in online brand communities: the moderating role of personal values (2019, methodology): “Previous studies predominantly used Hofstede’s (1984) cultural values scale, but validity of this measure has been consistently questioned (e.g. Chow et al., 1994; Evans and Mavondo, 2002; Evans et al., 2000; Kim and Gray, 2009; McSweeney, 2002; Schwartz, 1999).”