Psychic distance (Hakanson and Ambos, 2010)

Data on psychic distance aggregated at the country level for 625 country pairs (25 home countries and 25 host countries). The dataset contains 625 observations across 4 variables:

• country_pair: character string uniting the origin and the destination.

• origin: character string indicating the first country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.

• destination: character string indicating the second country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.

• PsychicDistance_HakansonAmbos2010: Integer. Psychic distance collected from managers from the 25 largest economies (Measured by GDP in 2001; the list includes: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the USA) in the world and then aggregated at the country level.

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SOURCE OF THE DATA

Reference: Hakanson, L. and Ambos, B. (2010) The Antecedents of Psychic Distance, Journal of International Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2010, 195-210.