Journal of International Business Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of International Business Studies is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises230
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice182
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries122
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth97
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight90
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?77
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis77
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals75
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward71
Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility68
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology66
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility64
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda63
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example63
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation62
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies61
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research59
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US58
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being55
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research54
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms52
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures52
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting51
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 signals45
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective45
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI44
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling44
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa43
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research39
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics39
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China38
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions35
List of Guest Editors35
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations34
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory34
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions33
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?33
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations32
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform32
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals32
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry32
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations31
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance31
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains31
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire31
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation31
The politicized nature of international business31
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond31
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention31
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights31
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment30
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief30
List of Guest Editors30
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research30
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers29
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni29
Business lobbying in the European Union29
Multihoming: an internationalization strategy in a world of artificial intelligence ecosystems29
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory28
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience28
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research27
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance27
Machine learning in international business27
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research26
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry26
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance26
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business26
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild25
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value25
Multinationals’ solutions to Grand Challenges25
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research25
Once sued, twice shy: international litigation, trust radius, and international expansion25
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country25
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal24
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research24
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums23
Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition23
International involvement of managed ecosystems: a quasi-experiment of foreign user traffic to e-commerce platforms amid geopolitical conflicts23
Inward foreign direct investment and technological innovation of local firms: differential impacts on incremental and radical innovation22
Institutional investors, tax havens, and multinational subsidiaries21
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research21
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda20
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes20
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry20
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets19
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence18
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research18
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce18
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies18
Family firms and the governance of global value chains18
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective17
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship17
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda17
What makes an internationalizing firm entrepreneurial?16
Veto rights in international joint ventures16
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity16
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda16
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century16
Guilty as charged? Reassessing the problem of single-country samples in cultural distance studies15
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field15
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises14
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda14
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business14
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business14
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory14
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach14
International business is contributing to environmental crises14
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness13
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE13
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy13
Upward convergence: digital regulations and digital firms’ internationalization13
Global investors, hidden suppliers: how institutions shape the impact of stock market liberalization programs on corporate responsibility13
Local roots, global reach? A framework for managing place-based identity in new cultural industries13
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China13
Tax avoidance and ESG disclosure mandates: international evidence13
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control12
The global sourcing of green products12
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus12
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets11
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation11
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises11
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries11
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors11
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry11
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities11
Do political systems affect economic outcomes? The geography of inward FDI and its relationships with growth and inequality11
The value of publishing in JIBS11
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists10
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms10
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business10
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business10
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions10
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions9
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises9
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory9
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets9
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa9
International business and decentralized finance9
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business9
Digital dampening and internationalization of digital firms9
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities9
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective9
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China8
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers8
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network8
The nature and utility of cultural tightness–looseness: evidence for reconsideration8
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”8
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa8
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective8
Handbook for qualitative research in emerging markets: methods and applications8
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs8
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder8
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight7
Resilience duality in global turbulence: immunity and growth7
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage7
International business research that moves Africa7
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?7
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies6
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries6
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world6
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions6
Institutions and social entrepreneurship: a hierarchy of institutions to revisit institutional voids, support, and configurations6
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention6
Digital transformation and the offshore outsourcing behavior of manufacturing MNEs6
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs6
Venture capital funding in Africa: a mixed-methods study of evolving ecosystems and financial discrimination6
Indigenization as a distinct path of expropriation: French and US investments in Spain, 1870s–19595
The dual effects of geopolitical risk on MNCs’ first-tier supply base: a political economy perspective5
Bankruptcy law and angel investors around the world5
Third-country MNEs, trade wars, and competitive opportunities: a real-options perspective5
Principles of sustainable business: frameworks for corporate action on the SDGs5
Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy5
Cross-border effects of US FCPA enforcement: information and institutional spillovers in China through industry peers5
Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business5
Supremacy: the race to build the world’s most powerful AI5
The value of theory- and evidence-based intellectual dialogue on foundational elements of the IB field5
The Big Con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies5
Revisiting the liability of foreignness: political ideology, globalization, and discrimination5
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic5
Dynamic capabilities framework and its transformative contributions5
Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence5
Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research5
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