The effect of language use on the financial performance of microfinance banks: Evidence from cross-border activities in 74 countries
作者： Sougand Golesorkhi , Roy Mersland , Rebecca Piekkari , Grigory Pishchulov , Trond Randøy
DOI: 10.1016/J.JWB.2019.03.002
关键词: Linguistic distance 、 Financial performance 、 Microfinance 、 Financial system 、 International business 、 On Language 、 Business
摘要: Abstract This multi-year study examines the relationship between financial performance and language use, observing 405 partnerships microfinance banks their international partners in 74 countries. Drawing on research business, we find that based English-speaking, French-speaking, Spanish-speaking countries have higher performance. Furthermore, linguistic distance home country of a bank its partner(s) is negatively related to Our large-scale confirms effect use organization-level extends multinationals from intra-firm inter-firm relationships.
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