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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach191
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight139
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals128
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example124
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice111
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises103
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology89
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?82
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries77
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth68
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 agenda62
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research61
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality60
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures55
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures52
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies45
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US44
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms42
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio42
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics38
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research38
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions37
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research37
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”36
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective36
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling35
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?35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China35
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI34
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability34
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations33
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises33
List of Guest Editors33
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
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view32
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?31
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry31
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment31
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief30
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad30
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains30
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations29
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention29
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire28
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations28
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond28
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation27
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research27
The politicized nature of international business27
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights27
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies27
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs26
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance26
Business lobbying in the European Union25
List of Guest Editors25
Correction to: Running out of steam? A political incentive perspective of FDI inflows in China24
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory23
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry22
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance21
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni21
Machine learning in international business21
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research20
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research20
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research20
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience20
Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research20
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance20
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business20
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research19
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires19
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value19
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy19
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension18
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks18
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal18
Correction to: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future18
The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research17
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment17
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums17
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research17
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes16
List of Guest Editors16
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective16
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies16
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment16
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research16
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence16
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets16
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda16
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry16
Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing15
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective15
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship15
Family firms and the governance of global value chains15
International business is contributing to environmental crises15
Kicking back against kickbacks: An examination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US foreign investment15
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce15
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
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries14
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century14
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda14
Veto rights in international joint ventures14
Registration at founding and firm performance: Generalization and extension replication from global data14
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field14
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China13
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business13
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises13
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda13
How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms?13
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda13
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach12
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business12
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness12
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory12
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE12
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors11
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus11
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions11
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy11
From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary11
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control11
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 5210
The value of publishing in JIBS10
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets10
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry10
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises10
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries10
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation9
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business9
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions9
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions9
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities9
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms8
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business8
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa8
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business8
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions8
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises8
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business8
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists8
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
Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries7
Positive institutional changes through peace: The relative effects of peace agreements and non-market capabilities on FDI7
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets7
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory7
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework7
Revisiting emerging market multinational enterprise views: The Goldilocks story restated7
Whither national subsidiaries? The need to refocus international management research on structures and processes that matter7
International business and decentralized finance6
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs6
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective6
Research handbook of global leadership: Making a difference6
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”6
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective6
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China6
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder6
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world5
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage5
International business research that moves Africa5
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?5
Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future5
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention5
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises5
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power5
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight5
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa5
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
The local roots of global entrepreneurship: Insights from Stephen Young5
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network5
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers5
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs5
Replication studies in international business5
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