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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight167
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice144
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals109
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example94
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth84
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries76
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises73
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility70
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?68
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology58
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda52
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures52
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures51
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies50
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research48
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US47
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio47
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research46
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality44
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms42
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics41
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective40
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling39
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”39
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions39
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI39
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa37
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals37
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research36
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability36
List of Guest Editors34
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China34
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?34
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions33
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals33
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view33
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?32
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry32
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations31
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform31
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment30
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations30
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention30
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies29
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation29
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief29
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire29
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance28
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs28
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations27
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights27
The politicized nature of international business25
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad25
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond25
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains24
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research24
Business lobbying in the European Union23
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni23
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research23
List of Guest Editors23
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance23
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
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research22
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory22
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research22
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business21
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance21
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country21
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research20
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience20
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value20
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires19
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal19
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild19
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension19
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment18
Family firms and the governance of global value chains18
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry18
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective18
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda18
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research18
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets18
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research18
List of Guest Editors18
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes18
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies18
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence18
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective17
Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing17
Kicking back against kickbacks: An examination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US foreign investment17
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity16
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce16
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century16
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship16
Veto rights in international joint ventures16
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda15
International business is contributing to environmental crises15
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda15
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field15
Developing theoretically informed typologies in international business: Why we need them, and how to do it15
Registration at founding and firm performance: Generalization and extension replication from global data14
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises14
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries14
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business14
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE13
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China13
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness13
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach13
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy12
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory12
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business12
Global investors, hidden suppliers: how institutions shape the impact of stock market liberalization programs on corporate responsibility12
How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms?12
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda12
The global sourcing of green products11
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus11
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control11
From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary11
Local roots, global reach? A framework for managing place-based identity in new cultural industries11
The value of publishing in JIBS10
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 5210
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation10
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises10
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors10
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities10
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets10
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions10
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry9
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions9
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions9
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries9
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions9
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business9
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists9
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business8
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises8
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities8
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
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework8
Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries8
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business8
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa8
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory8
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets8
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs7
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective7
International business and decentralized finance7
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”7
The nature and utility of cultural tightness–looseness: evidence for reconsideration7
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective7
Handbook for qualitative research in emerging markets: methods and applications7
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa7
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power7
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China7
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network6
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?6
International business research that moves Africa6
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention6
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight6
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage6
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies6
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs6
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder6
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers6
Replication studies in international business6
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions6
Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence5
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises5
Dynamic capabilities framework and its transformative contributions5
Venture capital funding in Africa: a mixed-methods study of evolving ecosystems and financial discrimination5
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries5
The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions5
Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy5
Putting qualitative international business research in context(s)5
Bankruptcy law and angel investors around the world5
The local roots of global entrepreneurship: Insights from Stephen Young5
Revisiting the liability of foreignness: political ideology, globalization, and discrimination5
The dual effects of geopolitical risk on MNCs’ first-tier supply base: a political economy perspective5
Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business5
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions5
Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research5
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic5
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world5
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