Plenty. I could search for some economic history old papers, but idea rests that mass production and the beginning of industrialization has a larger business boost if the mass of consumers has an homogenous preference.
For example, any meat industry loses ~200 million potential customers simply because the Japanese doesn't have the habit of eating much meat. So western export businesses of meat naturally fail there. Such cases happen.
A book editor has a much easier time if its potential customer group has same language and faces similar life situations. Otherwise rather than having a best seller you will have plenty of different books each of them selling average.
China for example, has an advantage in having a large homogenous consumer population for its industries that the west does not have. To sell to that amount of people to a western audience, industries would have to diversify their product portfolio the most possible, rather than mass producing just a few.
It's also mathematically demonstrable. Look up on Economies of Scale and see what happens. Economies of Scale, summing it up very fast implies to reach a state that the more you produce of a single product, the more the average cost per unit drops. Eventually there is a plateau of low average cost, but the bigger the consumer mass is, the lower the potential average production cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
You can find the economies of scale with all the math backpack in any microeconomics manual (Perloff, Varian or Krugman).
If math is not your thing, it can even be found in Adam Smith's works. I guess that's enough academic? You can also find Economies of Scale referenced in Marx's "Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844"