Environment dimension Keywords used to identify dimension Culture Culture, cultural or culturally, acculturation, multiculture or multicultural, transculture or transcultural,

cross-culture or cross-cultural, subculture, multiculturalism, unicultural, monocultural Legal systems legal, law(s), competition law(s), property rights, safety regulation(s), corruption, patent law(s), property law(s), payoff(s), civil law, common law Income profile income (income inequality, income per capita, per capita income, income distribution, income elasticity, income group, high/low/middle-income, premium income, income level, net income, residual income, income growth), purchasing power parity or PPP, GDP per capita, GNP per capita Political risk political risk, civil unrest, political unrest, turbulence, civil disturbance, bureaucratic risk(s) Tax regimes tax(es), taxation, foreign taxation, tax rate(s), taxexemption, taxable, after-tax or pre-tax, government revenue Exchange rates Exchange rate(s), exchange risk, currency risk, currency variation, currency variability, currency changes, currency movement(s), currency uncertainty, currency instability, foreign exchange risk, foreign exchange changes, foreign exchange movement(s), foreign exchange variation, foreign exchange variability, foreign exchange instability, foreign exchange uncertainty, monetary risk, monetary variation, monetary variability, monetary changes, monetary uncertainty, monetary movement(s), monetary instability Restrictions tariff(s), pre-tariff or post-tariff, quota(s), TRIM, trade related investment measures, trade policies, investment policy(ies), investment incentive(s), national treatment, border taxes, right (non right)of establishment, effective tariff protection, effective protection, performance requirements

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