Firstly, this article defines the basic concept of the psychic distance, analyzes the influencing factors of psychic distance and establishes an evaluation model based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation on the basis of psychic distance. On this basis, the paper made it clear that the psychic distance is an important factor to affect international development of enterprises. When enterprises want...

The role of cultural distance in market integration, particularly the developing world, has received relatively little attention. Using prices from more than 200 South Asian markets spanning 1861 to 1921, we show that linguistic correlates negatively with integration. A one-standard-deviation increase predicts a reduction price correlation between two 0.121 standard deviations for wheat, 0.181 ...

We collect data on grain and salt prices, as well as language, for more than 200 South Asian markets in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Conditional on a rich set of controls and fixed effects, we find that linguistically distant markets are less integrated as measured by the degree of price correlation. While linguistically distant markets exhibit greater genetic distance, greater difference...

Farmers can only be market oriented if his/her production plan follows market signals and produce commodities that is more marketable. In other to achieve this, this study provided empirical evidence on the Gender analyses of market orientation in South Eastern, Nigeria. A stratified sampling design was used to select 360 sample respondents in 2017. Market Orientation Index (MOI) and Heckit sel...

Immigrants are more likely to be unemployed, have temporary jobs and low income, which makes labour market integration an important political challenge. Access to paid work is central for the economic situation and social position in society, but knowledge of factors and policies that improve labour market integration for newly arrived immigrants still remains limited. Prior research point out ...