Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity

Wolfgang Messner

Journal of World Business, 2022, vol. 57, issue 4

Abstract: Many countries are becoming increasingly culturally heterogeneous and diverse. Yet, the cross-cultural research literature has only paid limited attention to the measurement of within-country cultural diversity. Following an analogy from evolutionary biology, this article proposes a novel index of cultural heterozygosity, which takes the individual as a starting point. It develops a distribution-free algorithm, which compares all individuals in a given country sample with each other. This index is different from commonly used fractionalization indices; its relevance for international business research is illustrated with an empirical example regarding country-level differences in corruption.

Keywords: Corruption; cultural values; diversity; fractionalization; heterogeneity; heterozygosity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101346

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