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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight156
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries145
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice133
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example122
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?94
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth90
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals80
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises69
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda69
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology68
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility68
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality65
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures54
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research49
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures48
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US48
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies48
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms44
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio44
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research44
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics43
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability40
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”39
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?39
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling38
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
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals36
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa35
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China35
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions34
List of Guest Editors34
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective34
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform33
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?33
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view32
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
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations32
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises32
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad31
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights31
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention29
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment29
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations29
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations28
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains28
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs28
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies27
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire26
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance26
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation25
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research25
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond24
List of Guest Editors24
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief24
The politicized nature of international business24
Business lobbying in the European Union23
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business22
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni22
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory22
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance22
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience22
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance21
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research21
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research21
Machine learning in international business20
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry20
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country19
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 value19
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research19
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks19
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment18
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal18
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research18
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums18
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research18
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires18
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective18
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild18
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research17
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies17
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes17
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets17
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship17
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda17
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence17
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry17
List of Guest Editors17
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective16
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity16
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce16
Kicking back against kickbacks: An examination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US foreign investment16
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century16
Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing16
Family firms and the governance of global value chains16
Veto rights in international joint ventures16
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business15
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
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda14
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE14
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises14
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries14
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda14
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness14
Registration at founding and firm performance: Generalization and extension replication from global data14
International business is contributing to environmental crises14
How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms?14
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China13
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda13
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory13
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business12
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus12
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy12
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach12
From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary12
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions11
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control10
The value of publishing in JIBS10
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation10
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries10
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises10
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 5210
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry10
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities10
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors10
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets10
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business10
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions10
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists9
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business9
Why the world economy needs, but will not get, more globalization in the post-COVID-19 decade9
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions9
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions9
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business9
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business9
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms9
Revisiting emerging market multinational enterprise views: The Goldilocks story restated8
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa8
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework8
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory8
International business and decentralized finance8
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities7
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China7
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”7
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets7
Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries7
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa7
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs7
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises7
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective7
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder7
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power6
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs6
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers6
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
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective6
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight6
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions6
The Big Con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies5
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries5
Replication studies in international business5
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage5
Revisiting the liability of foreignness: political ideology, globalization, and discrimination5
The value of theory- and evidence-based intellectual dialogue on foundational elements of the IB field5
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions5
Venture capital funding in Africa: a mixed-methods study of evolving ecosystems and financial discrimination5
Bankruptcy law and angel investors around the world5
Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research5
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world5
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies5
The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions5
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic5
Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business5
Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence5
Putting qualitative international business research in context(s)5
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises5
The local roots of global entrepreneurship: Insights from Stephen Young5
International business research that moves Africa5
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention5
Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research5
Dynamic capabilities framework and its transformative contributions5
Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy5
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