The Concept of Distance in International Management Research

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Do We Need to Distance Ourselves from the Distance Concept? Why Home and Host Country Context Might Matter More Than (Cultural) Distance (2015, background): “…(cultural) distance concept and further developments of more ‘advanced’ distance concepts is also clearly illustrated by a recent special issue of the Journal of International Management (for an overview of contributions see Ambos and Håkanson 2014) and other, very recent, publications.”
Rapid internationalization and long-term performance: The knowledge link (2017, background): “…even though scholars have traditionally devoted all their attention at cultural differences among countries, recent studies show the necessity of using when possible more than one distance measure in order to obtain more reliable estimates (Ambos and Håkanson, 2014; Berry, Guillén, and Zhou, 2010).”
The Concept of Distance in International Business Research: A Review and Research Agenda (2016, unknown): “And yet, there is still ambiguity (Ambos and Håkanson 2014; Håkanson and Ambos 2010; Sousa and Bradley 2008).”
The effects of linguistic distance and lingua franca proficiency on the stake taken by acquirers in cross-border acquisitions (2015, background): “6 While Kogut and Singh’s index is one of the most commonly used measures of cultural distance in IB, distance measures like theirs have been criticized for assuming that the effect of distance in symmetric (e.g., Shenkar, 2001; Ambos and Håkanson, 2014).”