OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Business Studies is 18. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	230
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	182
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	122
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	97
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	90
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis	77
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	77
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	75
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward	71
Collectivist culture and corporate social responsibility	68
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	66
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	64
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	63
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	63
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation	62
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	61
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	59
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	58
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being	55
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	54
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	52
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	52
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting	51
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	45
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	45

Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	45
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	44
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	44
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	43
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	39
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	39
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	38
List of Guest Editors	35
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	35
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory	34
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	34
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions	33
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	33
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals	32
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	32
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations	32
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	32
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire	31
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation	31
The politicized nature of international business	31
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond	31
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention	31
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights	31
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations	31
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance	31
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains	31
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief	30
List of Guest Editors	30
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research	30
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment	30
Multihoming: an internationalization strategy in a world of artificial intelligence ecosystems	29
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers	29
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni	29
Business lobbying in the European Union	29
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience	28
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory	28
Machine learning in international business	27
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research	27
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance	27
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance	26
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business	26
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research	26
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry	26
Multinationals’ solutions to Grand Challenges	25
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research	25
Once sued, twice shy: international litigation, trust radius, and international expansion	25
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country	25
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild	25
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	25
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	24

Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	24
Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition	23
International involvement of managed ecosystems: a quasi-experiment of foreign user traffic to e-commerce platforms amid geopolitical conflicts	23
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	23
Inward foreign direct investment and technological innovation of local firms: differential impacts on incremental and radical innovation	22
Institutional investors, tax havens, and multinational subsidiaries	21
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research	21
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes	20
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry	20
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	20
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets	19
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	18
Family firms and the governance of global value chains	18
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence	18
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research	18
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce	18