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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach	191
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	139
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	128
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	124
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	111
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	103
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	89
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	82
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	77
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	68
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	64
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	62
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	61
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	60
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	55
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	52
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	45
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	44
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	42
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio	42
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	38
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	38
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	37
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	37
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	36

The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	36
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	35
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?	35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	35
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	34
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	34
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	33
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises	33
List of Guest Editors	33
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	32
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals	32
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view	32
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	31
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	31
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment	31
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief	30
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad	30
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains	30
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations	29
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention	29
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire	28
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations	28
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond	28
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation	27
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research	27
The politicized nature of international business	27
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights	27
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies	27
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs	26
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance	26
Business lobbying in the European Union	25
List of Guest Editors	25
Correction to: Running out of steam? A political incentive perspective of FDI inflows in China	24
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory	23
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry	22
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance	21
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni	21
Machine learning in international business	21
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research	20
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research	20
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research	20
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience	20
Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research	20
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance	20
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business	20
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	19
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country	19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires	19
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	19
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy	19

Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension	18
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks	18
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	18
Correction to: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future	18
The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research	17
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment	17
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	17
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research	17
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment	16
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research	16
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective	16
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	16
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	16
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence	16
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets	16
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes	16
List of Guest Editors	16
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry	16