CultDist: Cultural distance

In emlaet/wwmetrics: Data for International Business, Economics and Management

Description

Data on cultural distance for 3969 country pairs (63 home countries and 63 host countries).

Usage

data("CultDist")

Format

A tibble with 3969 observations and 5 variables:

• origin. Factor indicating the first country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.

• destination. Factor indicating the second country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.

• CountryPair. Factor uniting the origin and the destination using "-".

• CulturalDist_KogutSingh_4. Numeric. Cultural distance calculated between the two countries forming each country pair based on the formula indicated in Kogut & Singh (1988) applied to the first four Hofstede (1980) cultural dimensions: Uncertainty avoidance, Masculinity, Power distance, and Individualism.

• CulturalDist_KogutSingh_6. Numeric. Cultural distance calculated between the two countries forming each country pair based on the formula indicated in Kogut & Singh (1988) applied to all six of Hofstede (1980; & Bond, 1988; & Hofstede & Minkov, 2010) cultural dimensions: Uncertainty avoidance, Masculinity, Power distance, Individualism, Long-term orientation, and Indulgence versus restraint.

Source

http://geerthofstede.com/research-and-vsm/dimension-data-matrix/

References

Geert Hofstede, Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values. Beverly Hills CA: Sage Publications, 1980

emlaet/wwmetrics documentation built on May 30, 2019, 8:25 a.m.