MIBO lectures: Reading 1: Two dominant internationalization approaches:

• Gradual vs Rapid internationalization
• Timing of initial expansion and speed of internationalization

Gradual internalization research is rooted in Uppsala model à relationship between learning ...

Lecture 4: Strenghts of the Hofstede Study

• Homogenous population of IBM employees across countrie
• Cultural value dimensions allow do assess the influence of culuture and the comparison across countries
• High number of countries and a high number of individuals
• Star...

Cross cultural management Lecture 1: Cross cultural management:  Three layers of analysis: a general framework to better understand the cross cultural in cross cultural management Indirect lines= indirect influences Direct lines = direct influences The institutional environment forms the ...

Lecture 7: Factor analysis:

• Technique to reduce a large amount of information (contained in a number of original variables into a simple message (fewer variables, factors) with a minimum loss of information
• Done at the start of your empirical analysis, before your regression analys...

Lecture 6: Moderation: the relationship between x and y depends on a third variable z, z is than the moderation. In a regression multiplicative interaction term between the predictor x and the moderator z. For making hypothesis: effects become stronger, weaker or change direction. Moderation: statis...