OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Research is 114. 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
Cross-border acquisitions and the performance of Chinese publicly listed companies	6015
Interfirm collaboration for knowledge resources interaction among small innovative firms	691
Editorial Board	586
Governance of new product design: The influence of national institutions	567
Consumer self-regulation: Looking back to look forward. A systematic literature review	556
Does MBA’s paradigm transformation follow business education’s philosophy? A comparison of academic and job-performance and SES among five types of MBAian	377
Socio-politically silent brands: A double edged sword	376
Legitimating language and emotional tone in antenarratives: A cultural entrepreneurship perspective	346
Threatened by your stars? A multi-method research investigating the negative upward influence of star employees on immediate supervisors	337
Not all friends are created equal: The effect of friendship type on performance of shared native ads on social media	310
Relationships Between Clinical Psychological Depression and Employee Absenteeism: A data analytics approach	309
Two tales of internationalization – Chinese internet firms' expansion into the European market	308
The role of work design in entrepreneurship: A review and meta-framework	302
Looking inside the ‘black box’ of digital firm scaling: An ethnographically informed conceptualisation	294
Joint forward contract negotiation: The role of B2B procurement platforms	293
Platforms, infrastructures and the Futures of market society	283
Investigating the impact of interpersonal closeness and social status on electronic word-of-mouth effectiveness	272
The importance of being earnest: Mandatory vs. voluntary disclosure of incentives for online product reviews	261
‘One bad apple won’t spoil the bunch’ – Representations of the “sharing economy”	258
Advancing service-dominant logic with systems thinking	257
Pride in family businesses: Authenticity, hubris, and cultural insights	257
Somebody is hiding something: Disentangling interpersonal level drivers and consequences of knowledge hiding in international entrepreneurial firms	243
Cash creates value for supply chain systems, but who appropriates that value?	234
Grouped data, investment committees & multicriteria portfolio selection	233
Economic uncertainty spillover and social networks	232

Consumer over-indebtedness: A review and future research agenda	228
#COVID-19: Forms and drivers of social media users’ engagement behavior toward a global crisis	224
International orientation: An antecedent-consequence model in Spanish agri-food cooperatives which are aware of the circular economy	222
Commitment to organizational change: The role of territoriality and change-related self-efficacy	214
Turning lurkers into innovation agents: An interactionist perspective of self-determinant theory	213
Acceptance of circular entrepreneurship: Employees’ perceptions on organizations’ transition to the circular economy	212
Uncertainty, entrepreneurial orientation, and the pursuit of M&A: Managing the unpredictable	211
An integrated social network marketing metric for business-to-business SMEs	205
How political ideology drives anti-consumption manifestations	201
Smart contract diffusion in the pharmaceutical blockchain: the battle of counterfeit drugs	198
Network governance institutionalization: Creating mutual value by harnessing and avoiding conflicts in interorganizational networks	198
How does CEO demission threat affect corporate risk-taking?	196
I feel morally elevated by my organization’s CSR, so I contribute to it	195
Business model change and internationalization in the sharing economy	192
Internationalization of hybrid state-owned enterprises from emerging markets: Institutional investors as enablers	191
Why or How? the impact of Construal-Level Theory on vaccine message receptivity	191
A goal-driven framework for compliance-dependent services: Pathways to customer satisfaction and well-being	186
Encouraging creative teams to integrate a sustainable approach to technology	185
Strategic change and innovation reputation: Opening up the innovation process	184
Does CEO temporal myopia always lead to firm short-termism? The critical role of CEO optimism and perceived opportunity costs	183
Managerial latitude and adaptive selling: Important roles of salesperson perceived control and work centrality	181
AI-capable relationship marketing: Shaping the future of customer relationships	181
Sharing luxury possessions in the age of digital experience economy: Consumption type and psychological entitlement	178
Extending knowledge-based view: Future trends of corporate social entrepreneurship to fight the gig economy challenges	178
Innovation capability in geographically dispersed R&D teams: The role of social capital and IT support	177
Beyond information availability: Specifying the dimensions of consumer perceived brand transparency	176
Brand envy in economic disparity: Understanding and mitigating malicious envy towards brands among consumers perceiving limited economic mobility	174
Pricing strategy and performance investment decisions in competitive crowdfunding markets	173
Harnessing creative tensions: A micro-level study of value creation	172
Opportunities and challenges in food entrepreneurship: In-depth qualitative investigation of millet entrepreneurs	170
Supportive leadership and job performance: Contributions of supportive climate, team-member exchange (TMX), and group-mean TMX	167
An integrative approach for business modelling: Application to the EV charging market	165
The effect of the valence of forgiveness to service recovery strategies and service outcomes in food delivery apps	163
Family strains, work passion drains: The impact of daily family demands on daily work passion	163
Trust and reputation in family businesses: A systematic literature review of past achievements and future promises	161
The complexity of the intangible digital economy: an agent-based model	160
The interactive effect of power and self-construal on consumers’ preferences for brand-logo size	158
The impact of political ties on firm innovativeness: Testing a mediation and moderation model	158
How does one-sided versus two-sided customer orientation affect B2B platform’s innovation: Differential effects with top management team status	158
Explorative and exploitative innovation: A perspective on CEO humility, narcissism, and market dynamism	158
Post diversity: A new lens of social media WOM	156
Capital market deepening, Governor’s characteristics and Russian regional enterprises: A big data analysis	155
Mapping the electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) research: A systematic review and bibliometric analysis	152
No laughing matter, or a secret weapon? Exploring the effect of humor in service failure situations	152
Digital economy: An innovation driver for total factor productivity	151
Innovative leadership in organizations: Dimensions, measurement, and validation	150
The emerging world of digital exploration services	149
Big data analytics and artificial intelligence technologies based collaborative platform empowering absorptive capacity in health care supply chain: An empirical study	145
Bibliometric articles in business and management: Factors affecting production and scholarly impact	145
Editorial Board	144

The moderating effects of economic and strategic relationship value in tolerating active and passive opportunism	144
One truth and one standard for its telling: Reporting on and about scientific business research	144
On the basis of research on ‘green’ in the disciplines of management and business	143
Resource bundles and value creation: An analytical framework	142
Product-service systems and circular supply chain practices in UK SMEs: The moderating effect of internal environmental orientation	141
How can emerging-market SMEs domestically benefit from their performance in developed countries? Empirical evidence from China	141
Conceptualizing masstige buying behavior: A mixed-method approach	139
How heuristic cues impact crowdfunding performance: The moderating role of platform competition intensity and platform demand potential	139
Brand respect: Conceptualization, scale development and validation	138
Signaling the family firm brand in recruitment materials: The role of category-based cognitive processing on applicant attraction	137
ESG rating uncertainty and corporate financial misconduct	137
Understanding the complex relationship between R&D investment and firm growth: A chaos perspective	137
With or without metamorphosis of learning Orientation: Post-Cross-Border mergers and acquisitions performance of emerging multinational enterprises	136
Central government Ownership, geographic Distance, and firm Innovation: Evidence from Chinese State-owned enterprises	135
Social institutions approach to women’s firm ownership and firm bribery activity: A study of small-sized firms in emerging markets	135
Post hoc explanations improve consumer responses to algorithmic decisions	135
Why airdrop cryptocurrency tokens?	134
License for Wrongdoing: Why better relationships with leaders lead to employee unethical behavior	131
Customer-related executive leadership turnover and firm performance: A dilemma of firm-level human resource contingencies	129
Remedying Airbnb COVID-19 disruption through tourism clusters and community resilience	126
Brain buzz for Facebook? Neural indicators of SNS content engagement	125
Leveraging Machine learning and generative AI for content Engagement: An Exploration of drivers for the success of YouTube videos	123
Examining the role of big data and marketing analytics in SMEs innovation and competitive advantage: A knowledge integration perspective	123
Text analysis of online customer reviews for products in the FCB quadrants: Procedure, outcomes, and implications	122
The strategic advantage of mature-stage firms: Digitalization and the diversification of professional sport into esports	121
Key challenges and opportunities of service innovation processes in technology supplier-service provider partnerships	120
Nonmarket strategy in emerging markets: The link between SMEs’ corporate political activity, corporate social responsibility, and firm competitiveness	120
COVID-19 and the global value chain: Immediate dynamics and long-term restructuring in the garment industry	119
Family enterprise and technological innovation	119
Post-acquisition integrative invention and differences in the quality of target and acquirer technological capabilities	118
Retailing and emergent technologies	117
To purchase or to remove? Online shopping cart warning pop-up messages can polarize liking and purchase intention	116
The moral foundations of makerspaces as unconventional sources of innovation: A study of narratives and performance	115
Ad eroticism from a psychological distance perspective: Investigating its effects in light of consumers’ sex, ethical judgments, and moral attentiveness	115
On-the-fly decision making within organizations: A systematic literature review and future research directions	114
Typography meets question type: Unveiling their matching effect on willingness to pay for AI products	114
When anything less than perfect isn’t good enough: How parental and supervisor perfectionistic expectations determine fear of failure and employee creativity	114
Trust asymmetry and changes in supplier opportunism: An institutional contingency view	114
Exploring the role of product attributes in 9-ending pricing strategies: A study on online retailing	114