Improving generalizations from multi-country comparisons in international business research

By George R. Franke, Robert Glenn Richey Jr.. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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The Form of Relationship between Firm-Level Product Innovativeness and New Product Performance in Developed and Emerging Markets (2015, result): “Of course, two-country comparisons provide only limited information given concerns over generalizing from two data points (Cadogan, 2010; Franke and Richey, 2010), and as a result, we stress that the tests of our arguments based on differences in institutions across the UK and Ghana are necessarily ”
Formal Institutions and Opportunity Entrepreneurship. The Contingent Role of Informal Institutions (2019, background): “…recent years.1 This international dimension and the presence of countries from different economic environments provide us with enough variability in the institutional dimensions, which is strongly recommended in studies analyzing the influence of the institutional context (Franke and Richey, 2010).”
Culture's Influence on Emotional Intelligence: An Empirical Study of Nine Countries (2014, methodology): “Goleman (1998) concurs by indicating that his research has found “for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined” (p.”
An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test (2012, background): “Second, strategy and international business scholars often strive to make cross-national generalizations, but have to work with primary observations from a limited number of countries, which can lead to misleading results and mistaken interpretations (Franke & Richey, 2010).”
Cultural values, emotional intelligence, and conflict handling styles: A global study (2016, background): “The inclusion of countries in the sample focused on representation of the major cultural regions of the world so as to maximize variation in cultural norms and values (Franke & Richey, 2010).”
Curvilinear relationship between cultural distance and equity participation: An empirical analysis of cross-border acquisitions (2011, background): “Indeed, Franke and Richey (2010) provide a warning related to “questionable generalizations from small numbers of countries in international business research.””
Corporate environmental responsibility, employer reputation and employee commitment: an empirical study in developed and emerging economies (2014, methodology): “Due to the number of companies listed in the four databases differing considerably, we followed the recommendations of Franke and Richey (2010) and selected a random sample of 800 companies for each country with varying company sizes and industries.”