OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 34. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	230
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	182
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	122
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	97
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	90
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	77
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis	77
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	75
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward	71
Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility	68
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	66
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	64
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	63
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	63
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation	62
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	61
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	59
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	58
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being	55
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	54
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	52
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	52
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting	51
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	45
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	45

The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	45
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	44
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	44
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	43
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	39
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	39
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	38
List of Guest Editors	35
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	35
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	34
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory	34