This article aims at offering a weighted, Mahalanobian, and asymmetrical approach to
calculating national cultural distance. The proposed approach improves upon the major …

Purpose–This article aims at offering and validating a theory‐driven conceptualization of the
cultural distance index. Design/methodology/approach–First, the cultural distance index is …

National cultural distance construct has wide-spread use in the international business
literature, with many applications. Despite its limitations as summarized by Shenkar (2001) …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to propose an alternative basis for calculating cultural
distance scores using Schwartz's cultural values. Design/methodology/approach–Cultural …

Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to make sense of the cultural distance paradox
through a basic assessment of the cross-cultural comparability of cultural distance …

Differences and similarities between countries, regions, and cultures lie at the core of
international business, and they are often measured in the form of a distance index originally …

Hofstede's seminal work on cross-cultural dimensions was based on his survey of more than
116,000 IBM employees in 40 countries. Hofstede argued that the work-related cultural …

Abstract The Kogut and Singh (J Int Bus Stud 19 (3): 411–432, 1988) index is the most
widely used construct to measure cultural distance in international business and …

This article documents a new dataset of cultural distance measures both at the country and
regional levels in Europe. These measures were calculated using data from the European …

This meta-analysis offers an updated set of national cultural scores along the dimensions of
Hofstede's cultural framework. The meta-analytic national cultural indices have two …