Explaining the National Cultural Distance Paradox

By Keith D. Brouthers, L. Brouthers. 2001

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Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business (2008, background): “Here cultural difference increases the cost of entry, decreases the efficiency of operations, and hampers the ability of firms to transfer core competencies or home country practices (Barkema & Vermeulen, 1997; Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001).”
Contextualizing Experience Effects in International Business: A Study of Ownership Strategies (2009, background): “Second, different types of experience may influence ownership preferences in different ways (Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001; Delios & Beamish, 1999; Gatignon and Anderson, 1988; Gomes-Casseres, 1989; Hennart, 1991; Padmanabhan & Cho, 1996; Pak & Park, 2004).”
Guest Editors' Introduction Strategy Research in Emerging Economies: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom* (2005, neutral): “Representative IT-based studies, often in combination with TCT and RBT, include Brouthers and Brouthers (2001) on the role of cultural and institutional distance affecting entry decisions, Delios and Henisz (2000) and Meyer (2001) on experience and capabilities in unfamiliar environments in…”
Board Characteristics, Managerial Incentives, and the Choice Between Foreign Acquisitions and International Joint Ventures (2009, background): “First, entry mode research has argued for a negative relationship between cultural distance and the level of ownership and control in the context of entry mode choice (e.g., Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001; Hennart & Larimo, 1998; Makino & Neupert, 2000; Tihanyi, Griffith, & Russell, 2005).”
Comparative and International Corporate Governance (2010, background): “Second, drawing from the approaches to culture in international business research, high cultural distance is sometimes argued to crowd out or impair the implementation of some types of formal organization (Barkema & Vermeulen, 1997 ; Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001 ; Kostova, 1999 ; Kostova & Roth, ”
Beyond cultural distance: Switching to a friction lens in the study of cultural differences (2012, positive): “…work published around the same time corroborated some of the points made in the article, for example, the distinct influence of the individual dimensions of culture (e.g., Pothukuchi, Damanpour, Choi, Chen, & Park, 2002) or the role of non-cultural mediators (e.g., Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001).”
Curvilinear relationship between cultural distance and equity participation: An empirical analysis of cross-border acquisitions (2011, background): “…mode, and thus investing fewer resources, acquiring firms retain an option to exit the relationship in case of potential problems in the future (Brouthers and Brouthers, 2001) and if the true value of the firm turns out to be lower than what was initially ascertained, again resulting in…”
Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000 (2007, methodology): “…to take into account geographical distance as a control in our analyses, trying to be receptive to warnings highlighted by several scholars when testing hypotheses related to cultural distance (Shenkar, 2001; Brouthers and Brouthers, 2001; Harzing, 2004; Leung et al., 2005; Kirkman et al., 2006).”
Multinationals and corporate social responsibility in host countries: Does distance matter? (2011, neutral): “…including psychic distance (e.g., Ellis, 2008; Evans & Mavondo, 2002; Johanson & Vahlne, 1977; O’Grady & Lane, 1996), cultural distance (e.g., Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001; Dikova, Rao Sahib, & Van Witteloostuijn, 2010; Kogut & Singh, 1988; Morosini, Shane, & Singh, 1998; Shenkar, 2001;…”
The influence of market and cultural environmental factors on technology transfer between foreign MNCs and local subsidiaries: A Croatian illustration (2006, background): “…similarities and differences, or relative ‘‘distance’’ between cultures becomes important from a management standpoint as these similarities and distinctions form the foundation from which managers operate and make strategic decisions (Barkema, Bell, & Pennings, 1996; Brouthers & Brouthers, 2001).”
Challenging the Conceptualization and Measurement of Distance and International Experience in Entry Mode Choice Research (2009, background): “Beginning with Gatignon and Anderson (1988), many authors have cited international experience with respect to entry mode choice (Agarwal 1994; Brouthers and Brouthers 2001; Brouthers and Hennart 2007; Contractor and Kundu 1998a; Delios and Beamish 1999; Evans, Mavondo, and Bridson 2008; Lu 2002;…”
Service Quality Perceptions and Customer Satisfaction: Evaluating the Role of Culture (2004, background): “…of culture has been demonstrated in nearly all facets of marketing efforts, including advertising (Laroche et al. 2001), market entry mode (Brouthers and Brouthers 2001), retailer practices (Bello and Dahringer 1985), Internet usage (Quelch and Klein 1996), shopping practices (Ackerman…”