Egalitarianism, cultural distance, and foreign direct investment: A new approach

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1174-1194

  Siegel, Jordan I ^a   Licth, Amir N ^b   Schwartz, Shalom H ^c,d  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Culture; Egalitarianism; Entrepreneurship; Foreign direct investment (FDI); Global strategy; Multinational firm; Neoinstitutionalism; Pollution haven hypothesis; Regulatory arbitrage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880981052     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0776     Document Type: Article

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