Developing a multidimensional instrument to measure psychic distance stimuli

被引：476

作者：

Dow, Douglas

Karunaratna, Amal

机构：

[1] Univ Melbourne, Ctr Practice Int Trade, Melbourne Sch Business, Carlton, Vic 3053, Australia

[2] Univ Adelaide, Sch Commerce, Adelaide, SA, Australia

来源：

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES | 2006年 / 37卷 / 05期

关键词：

psychic distance; cultural distance; trade flows; market selection;

D O I：

10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400221

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper develops and tests a range of potential psychic distance stimuli including differences in culture, language, religion, education, and political systems. Using trade flows among a set of 38 nations as the dependent variable, it is shown that, whereas the majority of the proposed indicators prove to be statistically significant predictors of trade flows, the most common psychic distance surrogate-a composite measure of Hofstede's cultural dimensions-is not significant.

引用

页码：578 / 602

页数：25

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