Cultural distance in international business and management: From mean-based to variance-based measures

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 165-191

  Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd ^a   Maseland, Robbert ^a   Onrust, Marjolijn ^a   Van Hoorn, André ^a   Slangen, Arjen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; IHRM; Intra country variation; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901384298     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2014.922355     Document Type: Article

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