scholarly journals The asymmetric effect of institutional distance on international location: Family versus nonfamily firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Hernández ◽  
María Jesús Nieto ◽  
Andrea Boellis
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Distance ◽  
Asymmetric Effect ◽  
Family Versus ◽  
Location Family

scholarly journals Institutional Risk Preference and Asymmetric Role of Institutional Distance: An Examination on the OFDI of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yawei Qi ◽  
Guangping Rao
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Risk Preference ◽  
Institutional Distance ◽  
Asymmetric Effect ◽  
Institutional Risk ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Belt And Road

With the implementation of the “Going Out” policy and the “Belt and Road” initiative, Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in the countries along the “Belt and Road” increased substantially in the past decade. This paper analyzes the impact of institutional distance on Chinese OFDI and whether Chinese OFDI exhibits institutional risk preferences, using data on Chinese OFDI in 41 countries along the “Belt and Road” for the period from 2003 to 2018. We find that political institutional distance and economic institutional distance are both positively related to China’s OFDI scale, while cultural distance has a negative impact on the investment scale. We also find that institutional distance has an asymmetric effect on China’s OFDI. In particular, the worse the host country’s political environment, the larger the Chinese OFDI, indicating that Chinese OFDI exhibits the political institutional risk preference. On the other hand, Chinese multinational enterprises are more willing to invest in host countries with high economic freedom. Culture institution environment of the host country has a positive but insignificant impact on the Chinese OFDI scale, indicating that Chinese OFDI shows the characteristics of cultural distance proximity.

Family Name Socio-Pragmatic Informative Value in the LiteraryWorks by H. Böll

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
Olga Sheverinova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Pragmatic Information ◽  
Family Names ◽  
The Family ◽  
Location Family

The article is aimed at revealing the specificity of socio-pragmatic informative value of literary anthroponyms used by H. Böll in his literary works. The study of the onyms mentioned in such an aspect demonstrates the lack of comprehensive research. As a result, the findings covered this aspect are dispersal in scientific and practical work. However, literary onyms are considered to be semantic and text-forming units of a literary text and they are used to identify and differentiate the persons on their social, cultural, and psychological background, as well as to create the characters with national peculiarities. The object of the study includes the contextual units representing the «family names» anthroponymic category. The data collected are based on the following literary works by H. Böll: «Where Were You, Adam?» («Wo warst du, Adam?»), «Billiards at Half-Past Nine» («Billard um halb zehn»), «House without Guardians» («Haus ohne Hüter»), «The Clown» («Ansichten eines Clowns»). The continuous sampling method, qualitative-quantitative and descriptive ones, component and contextual analysis have been used as study methodology. The article contains certain essential results of the dissertation that have not been published yet. It is established that family names used by H. Böll are a means of revealing the following socio-pragmatic information: 1) the character’s nationality (a correlation between literary family names and the real national anthroponymic system is revealed); 2) a geographical location (family names with a typical sound and alphabetic composition that helps to define the place where the events occur); 3) social status (family names with the «von» component indicate both the character’s social status and their relationship with other members of the community); 4) a direct / indirect character’s description (family names with pure inner forms of the words and an updated internal form and appellatively based family names).

scholarly journals Asymmetric Effect of Energy Price on Commodity Price: New Evidence from NARDL and Time Frequency Wavelet Approaches

Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 119461
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury ◽  
Mohammad Saeed Meo ◽  
Ajim Uddin ◽  
Md. Mahmudul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Price ◽  
Energy Price ◽  
Asymmetric Effect ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
New Evidence

Location capabilities, institutional distance, and start‐up survival

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla V. Bustamante ◽  
Sharon F. Matusik ◽  
Jose Miguel Benavente
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Distance ◽  
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