Journal of International Business Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of International Business Studies is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business159
Navigating cross-border institutional complexity: A review and assessment of multinational nonmarket strategy research140
Dealing with dynamic endogeneity in international business research107
Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research100
Why the world economy needs, but will not get, more globalization in the post-COVID-19 decade100
The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade95
Reconciling theory and context: How the case study can set a new agenda for international business research95
Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future93
Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A retrospective of research on multicultural work groups and an agenda for future research84
The anatomy of an award-winning meta-analysis: Recommendations for authors, reviewers, and readers of meta-analytic reviews79
Back to basics: Behavioral theory and internationalization73
A general framework of digitization risks in international business73
Illusions of techno-nationalism65
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business60
Global scaling as a logic of multinationalization58
Foreign direct investment along the Belt and Road: A political economy perspective57
The rise of techno-geopolitical uncertainty: Implications of the United States CHIPS and Science Act52
What’s so special about born globals, their entrepreneurs or their business model?51
Charting new courses to enter foreign markets: Conceptualization, theoretical framework, and research directions on non-traditional entry modes50
Multinational energy utilities in the energy transition: A configurational study of the drivers of FDI in renewables50
Are firms with foreign CEOs better citizens? A study of the impact of CEO foreignness on corporate social performance47
Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research45
E-platform use and exporting in the context of Alibaba: A signaling theory perspective45
Toward a loose coupling view of digital globalization45
Robots do not get the coronavirus: The COVID-19 pandemic and the international division of labor43
Sharing economy: International marketing strategies43
Long-term energy transitions and international business: Concepts, theory, methods, and a research agenda42
The dark side of globalization: Evidence from the impact of COVID-19 on multinational companies38
Foreignness research in international business: Major streams and future directions37
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research36
International business in the digital age: Global strategies in a world of national institutions36
The effect of international takeover laws on corporate resource adjustments: Market discipline and/or managerial myopia?35
Springboard MNEs under de-globalization34
International evidence on state ownership and trade credit: Opportunities and motivations33
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda32
A cross-cultural exploratory analysis of pandemic growth: The case of COVID-1931
Informal institutions, entrepreneurs’ political participation, and venture internationalization30
New connectivity in the fragmented world29
Public sentiment is everything: Host-country public sentiment toward home country and acquisition ownership during institutional transition29
MNE responses to carbon pricing regulations: Theory and evidence29
Positive institutional changes through peace: The relative effects of peace agreements and non-market capabilities on FDI29
The long-term energy transition: Drivers, outcomes, and the role of the multinational enterprise27
Replication studies in international business27
Leviathan as foreign investor: Geopolitics and sovereign wealth funds27
Speed and synchronization in foreign market network entry: A note on the revisited Uppsala model27
Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks27
Putting qualitative international business research in context(s)26
Business groups and the study of international business: A Coasean synthesis and extension26
To make JIBS matter for a better world26
Sister cities, cross-national FDI, and the subnational FDI location decision25
The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research25
Government procurement and financial statement certification: Evidence from private firms in emerging economies25
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment25
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework24
Protecting intellectual property in foreign subsidiaries: An internal network defense perspective24
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power23
Family-owned multinational enterprises in the post-pandemic global economy23
The effects of trade integration on formal and informal entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic development23
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions23
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view23
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions22
Home-market economic development as a moderator of the self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects22
Social movements and international business activities of firms22
The impact of multinational enterprises on community informal institutions and rural poverty22
Beyond the double-edged sword of cultural diversity in teams: Progress, critique, and next steps21
Chief marketing officers’ discretion and firms’ internationalization: An empirical investigation21
Neglected elements: What we should cover more of in international business research21
Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research20
The influence of culture on the relationship between women directors and corporate social performance20
Scaling digital solutions for wicked problems: Ecosystem versatility20
MNC responses to international NGO activist campaigns: Evidence from Royal Dutch/Shell in apartheid South Africa20
Event studies in international finance research20
Taxes, institutions, and innovation: Theory and international evidence20
Deceptive signaling on globalized digital platforms: Institutional hypnosis and firm internationalization19
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies19
Do foreign firms help make local firms greener? Evidence of environmental spillovers in China18
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions18
The influence of generalized and arbitrary institutional inefficiencies on the ownership decision in cross-border acquisitions18
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business18
The impact of corruption on market reactions to international strategic alliances17
Dynamic capabilities, the new multinational enterprise and business model innovation: A de/re-constructive commentary17
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective17
Equality, diversity, and inclusion in international business: A review and research agenda17
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research17
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda16
Capitalizing on the uniqueness of international business: Towards a theory of place, space, and organization16
MNC response to superstitious practice in Myanmar IJVs: Understanding contested legitimacy, formal–informal legitimacy thresholds, and institutional disguise16
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa16
Compositional springboarding and EMNE evolution16
When does multicollinearity bias coefficients and cause type 1 errors? A reconciliation of Lindner, Puck, and Verbeke (2020) with Kalnins (2018)15
Complexity in a multinational enterprise’s global supply chain and its international business performance: A bane or a boon?15
Developing international business scholarship for global societal impact15
Political elections and corporate investment: International evidence15
The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions15
Industry 4.0 in international business research15
The two sides of cooperation in export relationships: When more is not better15
International business is contributing to environmental crises14
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce14
MNE host-country alliance network position and post-entry establishment mode choice14
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research14
Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing14
Competition laws, ownership, and corporate social responsibility14
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda14
Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance14
Multinationals, innovation, and institutional context: IPR protection and distance effects14
More alike than different? A comparison of variance explained by cross-cultural models14
Digital platform attention and international sales: An attention-based view13
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory13
Corporate social performance in international business13
The formation of an MNE identity over the course of internationalization13
Early evidence on how Industry 4.0 reshapes MNEs’ global value chains: The role of value creation versus value capturing by headquarters and foreign subsidiaries13
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs13
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?13
Beyond “Doing as the Romans Do”: A review of research on countercultural business practices13
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control13
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises13
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research13
Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries12
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment12
International business studies: Are we really so uniquely complex?12
Cross-listing and price efficiency: An institutional explanation12
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability12
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio12
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries12
What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions12
Whither geographic proximity? Bypassing local R&D units in foreign university collaboration12
The overarching role of international marketing: Relevance and centrality in research and practice11
A stakeholder-based view of the evolution of intellectual property institutions11
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries11
Knowledge sourcing by the multinational enterprise: An individual creativity-based model11
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research11
The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes11
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective11
Complexity in international business: The implications for theory10
Controlling without owning – owning without controlling: A critical note on two extensions of internalization theory10
Revisiting emerging market multinational enterprise views: The Goldilocks story restated10
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective9
Political corporate social responsibility: The role of deliberative capacity9
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory9
Cultural congruence or compensation? A meta-analytic test of transformational and transactional leadership effects across cultures9
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms9
The dynamic process of pro-market reforms and foreign affiliate performance: When to seek local, subnational, or global help?9
Cultural diversity in semi-virtual teams: A multicultural esports team study8
Perlmutter revisited: Revealing the anomic mindset8
Whole country-of-origin network development abroad8
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research8
The last frontier of globalization: Trade and foreign direct investment in healthcare8
Whither national subsidiaries? The need to refocus international management research on structures and processes that matter8
Sustainable international business model innovations for a globalizing circular economy: a review and synthesis, integrative framework, and opportunities for future research8
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE8
Relational assets or liabilities? Competition, collaboration, and firm intellectual property breakthrough in the Chinese high-speed train sector8
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions8
Pride and prejudice: Unraveling and mitigating domestic country bias7
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs7
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business7
Global migration: Implications for international business scholarship7
The politicized nature of international business7
International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions7
Human behavior and judgment: A critical nano-foundation for the Uppsala model and international business studies7
Towards a more comprehensive assessment of FDI’s societal impact7
Tracing the connections between international business and communicable diseases7
Developing theoretically informed typologies in international business: Why we need them, and how to do it7
Something borrowed, something new: Challenges in using qualitative methods to study under-researched international business phenomena7
The impact of initial public offerings on SMEs’ foreign investment decisions6
Economic impact of COVID-19 across national boundaries: The role of government responses6
Learning from inbound foreign acquisitions for outbound expansion by emerging market MNEs6
Do Chinese subordinates trust their German supervisors? A model of inter-cultural trust development6
The long-term energy transition and multinational enterprise complexity: A BJM–JIBS Joint Initiative6
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?6
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic6
How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms?6
International expansion and home-country resource acquisition: A signaling perspective of emerging-market firms’ internationalization6
Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence5
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness5
Integrating host-country political heterogeneity into MNE–state bargaining: insights from international political economy5
Taking the P in political corporate social responsibility seriously5
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business5
What merits greater scholarly attention in international business?5
Research on country-of-origin perceptions: review, critical assessment, and the path forward5
Subsidiary closures and relocations in the multinational enterprise: Reinstating cooperation in subsidiaries to enable knowledge transfer5
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures5
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises5
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights5
Understanding the relationship between advertising spending and happiness at the country level5
Paradigm shift and theoretical implications for the era of global disorder5
Leaving the multinational: The likelihood and nature of employee mobility from MNEs4
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda4
International taxation and the organizational form of foreign direct investment4
U.S. national security and de-globalization4
The impact of cultural tightness on the relationship between structural holes, tie strength, and creativity4
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises4
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business4
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach4
Cognitive sources of liability of foreignness in crowdsourcing creative work4
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective4
The death of the Uppsala school: Towards a discourse-based paradigm?4
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension4
From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary4
Trevino and Doh’s discourse-based view: Do we need a new theory of internationalization?4
Corporate social responsibility in the global value chain: A bargaining perspective4
Board caste diversity in Indian MNEs: The interplay of stakeholder norms and social embeddedness4
Cross-sector collaborations in global supply chains as an opportunity structure: How NGOs promote corporate sustainability in China4
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry4
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