Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 24 Issue 3

A revision of Hofstede’s individualism-collectivism dimension: A new national index from a 56-country study

Michael Minkov, Pinaki Dutt, Michael Schachner, Oswaldo Morales, Carlos Sanchez, Janar Jandosova, Yerlan Khassenbekov, Ben Mudd

The purpose of this paper is to provide an updated and authoritative measure of individualism vs collectivism (IDV-COLL) as a dimension of national culture.

Capability, environment and internationalization fit, and financial and marketing performance of MNEs’ foreign subsidiaries: An abductive contingency approach

Dessislava Dikova, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Simon Parker

Extant work in international business (IB) involves a partial contingency-theoretic perspective: a holistic view of the impact of bundles of contingencies on an outcome variable…

Institution building in retreat: The effects of co-devolution on MNE-emerging economy relationships

Charles Funk, Len J. Treviño

The purpose of this paper is to describe co-devolutionary processes of multinational enterprise (MNE)/emerging economy institutional relationships utilizing concepts from “old”…

Institutional impacts on ownership decisions by emerging and advanced market MNCs

Rushiun Liou, Kevin Lee, Scott Miller

Emerging-market multinational companies (EMNCs) utilize cross-border merger and acquisitions (M&As) to acquire strategic assets that compensate for their resource deficiencies…

Trust-distrust balance: trust ambivalence in Sino-Western B2B relationships

Minna Jukka, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Peter Ping Li, Chunmei Gan

The purpose of this paper is to explore how Chinese and Finnish managers in cross-cultural supply-chain relationships evaluate their business partners’ trustworthiness and…

Implementing innovative financial models in different cultures: A comparative analysis of China and Mexico

Mauricio Cervantes, Daniel Lemus, Raúl Montalvo

The purpose of this paper is to present evidence about cultural differences between Mexico and China, and analyze their significance when implementing an innovative financial…