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The effect of language use on the financial performance of microfinance banks: Evidence from cross-border activities in 74 countries
2019
Abstract 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 …
Supply chain coordination under asymmetric information and partial vertical integration
2022
AbstractSupply chain contracting is known to suffer from inefficiency in the presence of asymmetric information. Full vertical integration would eliminate the informational inefficiency but can be strategically undesirable. Yet today’s supply chain partnerships exhibit a certain degree of partial vertical integration via equity ties between the firms. Such governance forms received limited attention in supply chain research. Management literature suggests that partial vertical integration may help the firms to ease contracting problems by aligning their incentives, and thus improve the total surplus. We address this proposition by studying a model of a partially integrated supply chain in w…
The Effect of Cross-Border Language Use on Financial Performance of Microfinance Banks
2019
This empirical study investigates the financial performance effect of cross-border language use in 405 partnerships between microfinance banks and their international partners in 74 countries. Motivated by the literature on language in International Business, we find that microfinance banks that use a global language such as English have better financial performance. Further, the linguistic distance between the microfinance banks and their international partners is negatively related to the financial performance of these banks. This study highlights tangible performance outcomes of cross-border language use and suggests that language use needs to be addressed as a strategic issue in interna…