More than just national cultural distance: Testing new distance scales on FDI in Slovakia

International Business Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-58

  Dow, Douglas ^a   Ferencikova, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Entry mode; FDI; Hofstede; Market selection; Performance; Psychic distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849123426     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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