Hello everyone! I am currently conducting research on cross-country differences in entrepreneurial activities and my developed model includes cultural values. In order to test the model, I would operationalize culture either by Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions or Schwartz' 7 Values. However, I found the paper by Imm Ng et al. (2006), which tests whether both frameworks are congruent. In order to test this, they used Cultural Distance Scores (with a "base-line" country), where they "merge" all dimensions of Hofstede and Schwartz respectively. They also list a number of studies that use such distance scores.

My question now is, when should one use the distance scores instead of the indices?

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