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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth212
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach187
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight132
Social movements and international business activities of firms123
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals120
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example106
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice98
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises96
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility87
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries76
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda71
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology69
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 research62
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio60
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality58
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures57
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures54
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US45
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies44
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 research42
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms38
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business37
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics36
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research35
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China34
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling34
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability34
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI34
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 Editors32
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 relations32
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective32
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform32
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry31
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation30
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises30
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals30
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?30
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view30
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad29
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment29
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief28
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies28
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains28
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance28
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention28
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations27
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs27
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations27
The politicized nature of international business27
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire26
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research26
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights26
List of Guest Editors25
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance25
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience25
Business lobbying in the European Union25
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory24
Correction to: Running out of steam? A political incentive perspective of FDI inflows in China24
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni23
Machine learning in international business22
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry22
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research21
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance21
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country21
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business20
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research20
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires19
Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research19
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research19
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension19
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value18
Correction to: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future18
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research18
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks18
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums17
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment17
The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research17
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal17
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes16
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda16
List of Guest Editors16
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment16
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective16
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research16
Family firms and the governance of global value chains15
Kicking back against kickbacks: An examination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US foreign investment15
Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing15
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence15
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research15
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry15
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies15
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective15
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets15
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship14
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity14
Developing theoretically informed typologies in international business: Why we need them, and how to do it14
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda14
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce14
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises13
Registration at founding and firm performance: Generalization and extension replication from global data13
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries13
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda13
Veto rights in international joint ventures13
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field13
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century13
International business is contributing to environmental crises13
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda13
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business13
How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms?12
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE12
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy12
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness12
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China12
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control12
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach12
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business12
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory12
From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary12
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus11
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors11
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions11
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 5211
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation10
The value of publishing in JIBS10
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets10
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions10
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises10
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry10
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities10
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists9
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions9
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business9
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business9
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries9
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions9
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa8
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business8
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms8
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets8
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business8
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities8
Why the world economy needs, but will not get, more globalization in the post-COVID-19 decade8
Revisiting emerging market multinational enterprise views: The Goldilocks story restated7
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory7
A general framework of digitization risks in international business7
Whither national subsidiaries? The need to refocus international management research on structures and processes that matter7
International business and decentralized finance7
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective7
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises7
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework7
Positive institutional changes through peace: The relative effects of peace agreements and non-market capabilities on FDI7
Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries7
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China6
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power6
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder6
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”6
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs6
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network6
Research handbook of global leadership: Making a difference6
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa6
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage6
International business research that moves Africa5
Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future5
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs5
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers5
The dynamic process of pro-market reforms and foreign affiliate performance: When to seek local, subnational, or global help?5
Replication studies in international business5
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?5
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight5
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions5
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies5
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic4
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises4
Revisiting the liability of foreignness: political ideology, globalization, and discrimination4
Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business4
Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence4
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention4
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries4
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world4
Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy4
Bankruptcy law and angel investors around the world4
The local roots of global entrepreneurship: Insights from Stephen Young4
The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions4
Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research4
Dynamic capabilities framework and its transformative contributions4
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