OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 36. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	268
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward	199
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	136
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis	114
Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility	90
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	82
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	79
Media as nonmarket influencer in international business	79
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	77
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	77
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	74
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	71
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	69
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	67
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	65
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation	61
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	60
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	56
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being	56
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	54
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	54
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting	47
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	47
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	47
Reclaiming history in IB research: expanding interdisciplinary inquiry through historical contextualization	46

A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	44
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	40
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	40
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	39
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	39
Multinational enterprises’ strategic responses to geopolitical tensions and sanctions	38
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	38
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	38
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	37
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	37
List of Guest Editors	36
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	36
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	36
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	36