Journal of International Business Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of International Business Studies is 6. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals268
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward199
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight136
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis114
Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility90
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?82
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth79
Media as nonmarket influencer in international business79
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example77
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology77
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility74
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries71
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises69
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda67
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice65
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation61
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies60
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures56
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being56
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research54
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US54
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms47
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting47
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research47
Reclaiming history in IB research: expanding interdisciplinary inquiry through historical contextualization46
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 China40
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics40
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective39
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa39
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions38
Multinational enterprises’ strategic responses to geopolitical tensions and sanctions38
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI38
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research37
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals37
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations36
List of Guest Editors36
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?36
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling36
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals35
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory35
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions35
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry34
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform34
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation34
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire34
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention33
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment32
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief32
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance32
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains32
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond31
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights30
The politicized nature of international business30
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni29
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations29
List of Guest Editors29
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers29
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations29
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance28
Machine learning in international business28
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory28
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry28
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country28
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research27
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience27
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance27
Multihoming: an internationalization strategy in a world of artificial intelligence ecosystems26
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research26
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business25
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value24
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research21
Populism, regime characteristics, and MNC location choice21
Once sued, twice shy: international litigation, trust radius, and international expansion21
Multinationals’ solutions to Grand Challenges20
International involvement of managed ecosystems: a quasi-experiment of foreign user traffic to e-commerce platforms amid geopolitical conflicts20
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild20
Institutional investors, tax havens, and multinational subsidiaries20
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal19
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda19
Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition19
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums19
Inward foreign direct investment and technological innovation of local firms: differential impacts on incremental and radical innovation18
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets18
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies18
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes18
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship17
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence17
Family firms and the governance of global value chains17
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce17
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research17
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective17
Guilty as charged? Reassessing the problem of single-country samples in cultural distance studies16
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field16
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda15
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business15
Veto rights in international joint ventures15
What makes an internationalizing firm entrepreneurial?15
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda14
International business is contributing to environmental crises14
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises14
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century14
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business14
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity14
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda13
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China13
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach13
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory13
Global investors, hidden suppliers: how institutions shape the impact of stock market liberalization programs on corporate responsibility13
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness12
The global sourcing of green products12
Upward convergence: digital regulations and digital firms’ internationalization12
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy12
The value of publishing in JIBS11
The two Coases of green governance: multinational enterprises and the internalization of environmental externalities through green innovation11
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises11
Local roots, global reach? A framework for managing place-based identity in new cultural industries11
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries11
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors11
Tax avoidance and ESG disclosure mandates: international evidence11
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus11
Do political systems affect economic outcomes? The geography of inward FDI and its relationships with growth and inequality11
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities10
R&D location choice under technology sanctions: evidence from Chinese MNEs10
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets10
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation10
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry10
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business9
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business9
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business9
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises9
International business and decentralized finance9
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists9
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions9
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory9
Digital dampening and internationalization of digital firms9
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions9
Moving beyond entry modes: toward a new paradigm of international involvement in an era of digitalization and global transitions9
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets9
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa9
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities8
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs8
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”8
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective8
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective8
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa8
The world is your office: how work from anywhere boots talent, productivity and innovation8
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China8
Handbook for qualitative research in emerging markets: methods and applications8
The nature and utility of cultural tightness–looseness: evidence for reconsideration8
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?7
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs7
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network7
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage7
International business research that moves Africa7
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers7
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight7
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder7
Institutions and social entrepreneurship: a hierarchy of institutions to revisit institutional voids, support, and configurations6
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies6
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention6
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries6
Venture capital funding in Africa: a mixed-methods study of evolving ecosystems and financial discrimination6
Resilience duality in global turbulence: immunity and growth6
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions6
Revisiting the liability of foreignness: political ideology, globalization, and discrimination6
Indigenization as a distinct path of expropriation: French and US investments in Spain, 1870s–19596
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic6
Digital transformation and the offshore outsourcing behavior of manufacturing MNEs6
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world6
Supremacy: the race to build the world’s most powerful AI6
Cross-border effects of US FCPA enforcement: information and institutional spillovers in China through industry peers6
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