OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 35. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	222
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	175
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	115
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	95
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	89
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	76
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	75
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis	74
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	68
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	66
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward	65
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	63
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	62
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	59
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation	59
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	58
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	55
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	54
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being	54
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	54
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	53
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting	53
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	52
How much is new in Brouthers et al.’s new foreign entry modes, and do they challenge the transaction cost theory of entry mode choice?	50
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	49

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	43
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	42
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	42
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	42
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	40
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	39
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	38
List of Guest Editors	37
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	36
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory	35