The effect of language use on the financial performance of microfinance banks: Evidence from cross-border activities in 74 countries

被引：19

作者：

Golesorkhi, Sougand ^{[1
]}

Mersland, Roy ^{[2
]}

Piekkari, Rebecca ^{[3
]}

Pishchulov, Grigory ^{[4
,5
]}

Randoy, Trond ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Manchester Metropolitan Univ, Business Sch, All St Campus,Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6BH, Lancs, England

[2] Univ Agder, Sch Business & Law, Postboks 422, N-4604 Kristiansand, Norway

[3] Aalto Univ, Sch Business, Dept Management Studies, Runeberginkatu 14-16, Helsinki 00100, Finland

[4] Univ Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business Sch, Booth St West, Manchester M15 6PB, Lancs, England

[5] St Petersburg State Univ, 7-9 Univ Skaya Nab, St Petersburg 199034, Russia

来源：

JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS | 2019年 / 54卷 / 03期

关键词：

Language in business; English; French; Spanish; Microfinance; Inter-firm international partnership; Firm performance; MULTINATIONAL-CORPORATIONS; INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; ECONOMIC-FREEDOM; DISTANCE; FIRM; INSTITUTIONS; ORGANIZATION; ADJUSTMENT; STRATEGIES;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jwb.2019.03.002

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This multi-year study examines the relationship between financial performance and language use, observing 405 partnerships between microfinance banks and their international financial partners in 74 countries. Drawing on language research in international business, we find that microfinance banks based in English-speaking, French-speaking, and Spanish-speaking countries have higher performance. Furthermore, the linguistic distance between the home country of a microfinance bank and the home country of its international partner(s) is negatively related to its financial performance. Our large-scale study confirms the effect of language use on organization-level financial performance and extends research on language in multinationals from intra-firm to inter firm relationships.

引用

页码：213 / 229

页数：17

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