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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	167
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	144
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	109
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	94
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	84
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	76
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	73
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	70
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	68
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	58
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	52
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	52
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	51
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	50
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	48
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio	47
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	47
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	46
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	44
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	42
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	41
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	40
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	39
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	39
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	39

A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	39
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	37
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	37
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	36
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	36
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?	34
List of Guest Editors	34
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	34
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals	33
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view	33
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?	32
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	32
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	31
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	31
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations	30
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention	30
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment	30
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation	29
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief	29
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire	29
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies	29
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs	28
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance	28
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights	27
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations	27
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad	25
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond	25
The politicized nature of international business	25
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research	24
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains	24
List of Guest Editors	23
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance	23
Business lobbying in the European Union	23
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni	23
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research	23
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory	22
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research	22
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
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research	22
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance	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	21
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience	20
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	20
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	20
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	19
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild	19
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension	19

The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires	19
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research	18
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets	18
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research	18
List of Guest Editors	18
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes	18
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective	18
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	18
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence	18
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment	18
Family firms and the governance of global value chains	18
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry	18
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	18