National culture and multinational performance

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The question of why some multinational corporations perform better than others is in the centre of the analysis of many international business disciplines and the subject of a never-ending debate. In that respect this paper provides empirical evidence by combining strategic management theories and performance measurement techniques. Specifically, it illustrates a way of strategic performance measurement by emphasising the impact of home country’s national culture on MNCs’ performance. Our empirical evidences suggest that home country’s national culture has a direct impact on MNCs’ performance. Additionally, the results clearly indicate that MNCs with higher performance have clear and distinct characteristics.

Keywords: Multinational Performance; National Culture; Cultural Distance Index; Data Envelopment Analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 C67 F23 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09-13
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