OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 32. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	212
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach	187
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	132
Social movements and international business activities of firms	123
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	120
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	106
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	98
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	96
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	87
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	76
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	71
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	69
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	64
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	62
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio	60
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	58
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	57
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	54
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	45
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	44
Correction to: What’s so special about born globals, their entrepreneurs or their business model?	43
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	42
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	38
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business	37
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	36

Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	35
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	34
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	34
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	34
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	34
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	33
List of Guest Editors	32
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?	32
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	32
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	32
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	32