OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Business Studies is 16. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	212
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach	187
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	132
Social movements and international business activities of firms	123
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	120
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	106
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	98
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	96
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	87
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	76
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	71
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	69
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	64
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	62
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio	60
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	58
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	57
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	54
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	45
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	44
Correction to: What’s so special about born globals, their entrepreneurs or their business model?	43
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	42
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	38
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business	37
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	36

Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	35
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	34
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	34
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	34
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	34
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	33
List of Guest Editors	32
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?	32
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	32
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	32
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	32
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	31
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation	30
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises	30
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals	30
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	30
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view	30
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad	29
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment	29
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief	28
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies	28
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains	28
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance	28
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention	28
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations	27
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs	27
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations	27
The politicized nature of international business	27
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire	26
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research	26
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights	26
List of Guest Editors	25
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance	25
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience	25
Business lobbying in the European Union	25
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory	24
Correction to: Running out of steam? A political incentive perspective of FDI inflows in China	24
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni	23
Machine learning in international business	22
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry	22
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research	21
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance	21
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country	21
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business	20
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research	20
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy	19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires	19
Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research	19
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research	19

Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension	19
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	18
Correction to: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future	18
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	18
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks	18
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	17
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment	17
The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research	17
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	17
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	16
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment	16
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes	16
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective	16
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research	16
List of Guest Editors	16