OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Business Studies is 17. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	268
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward	199
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	136
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis	114
Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility	90
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	82
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	79
Media as nonmarket influencer in international business	79
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	77
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	77
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	74
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	71
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	69
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	67
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	65
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation	61
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	60
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	56
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being	56
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	54
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	54
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	47
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting	47
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	47
Reclaiming history in IB research: expanding interdisciplinary inquiry through historical contextualization	46

A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	44
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	40
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	40
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	39
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	39
Multinational enterprises’ strategic responses to geopolitical tensions and sanctions	38
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	38
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	38
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	37
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	37
List of Guest Editors	36
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	36
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	36
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	36
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory	35
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions	35
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals	35
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	34
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation	34
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire	34
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	34
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention	33
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment	32
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief	32
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance	32
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains	32
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond	31
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights	30
The politicized nature of international business	30
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations	29
List of Guest Editors	29
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers	29
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations	29
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni	29
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory	28
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry	28
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country	28
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance	28
Machine learning in international business	28
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience	27
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance	27
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research	27
Multihoming: an internationalization strategy in a world of artificial intelligence ecosystems	26
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research	26
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business	25
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	24
Populism, regime characteristics, and MNC location choice	21
Once sued, twice shy: international litigation, trust radius, and international expansion	21
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	21
International involvement of managed ecosystems: a quasi-experiment of foreign user traffic to e-commerce platforms amid geopolitical conflicts	20

Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild	20
Institutional investors, tax havens, and multinational subsidiaries	20
Multinationals’ solutions to Grand Challenges	20
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	19
Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition	19
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	19
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	19
Inward foreign direct investment and technological innovation of local firms: differential impacts on incremental and radical innovation	18
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets	18
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	18
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes	18
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence	17
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce	17
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research	17
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship	17
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective	17
Family firms and the governance of global value chains	17