External uncertainty and entry mode choice: Cultural distance, political risk and language diversity

Cristina López-Duarte and Marta M. Vidal-Suárez

International Business Review, 2010, vol. 19, issue 6, 575-588

Abstract: This paper aims at analyzing the effect of external uncertainty on the entry mode choice when investing abroad. We consider the effect of uncertainty coming from the formal host country's environment (political risk) and from the informal one (cultural distance). The potential existence of an interaction effect between both of them is also analyzed. In particular, we analyze how language diversity between the home and host countries may condition the influence of this interaction effect on the entry mode choice. In order to empirically test our predictions, a database of foreign direct investments made by Spanish firms is used.

Keywords: Cultural; distance; Entry; mode; Foreign; direct; investment; Joint; venture; Language; Language; barriers; Language; diversity; Political; risk; Wholly; owned; subsidiary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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