Chinese enterprises’ overseas
M & A reached $43.4 billion in 2012, and the number was 26.3 times that of
2003. With Chinese enterprises’ increased overseas M & A cases, Chinese are
facing the challenges from culture. This paper studies national cultural
distance and enterprise culture distance, and measure relevant distance for 16
Chinese M & A cases.
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