OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 30. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Research methods in international business	171
Understanding the unwritten rules of the game: Government work experience and salary premiums in foreign MNC subsidiaries	146
Research handbook on international corporate social responsibility	113
Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence	111
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy	111
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises	107
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach	101
In vino vanitas: Social dynamics and performance of Chinese château acquisitions in the Bordeaux vineyards	82
The value of publishing in JIBS	76
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 52	64
Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy	63
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	62
Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business	61
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	51
Bankruptcy law and angel investors around the world	50
Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination- and origin-country identifications	49
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	48
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires	46
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions	45
The JIBS 2020 Decade Award: Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural groups	43
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	39
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors	38
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	37
Sustainable international business model innovations for a globalizing circular economy: a review and synthesis, integrative framework, and opportunities for future research	36
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries	36

Putting qualitative international business research in context(s)	34
The two sides of cooperation in export relationships: When more is not better	33
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business	32
Social movements and international business activities of firms	31
More alike than different? A comparison of variance explained by cross-cultural models	31
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions	30
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	30