OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Management International Review is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Innovation Quality Shortfalls and Overseas R&D Scope: A Relational Culture Perspective on Collective Decision-Making Dynamics	63
Comparing the Effects of Internationalization on CSR in Service and Non-Service MNEs	56
Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	50
Dealing with Trust Deficit and Liabilities of Foreignness in Host Countries: Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Australia	48
Organizational Influences and Performance Impact of Cross-Border E-Commerce Barriers: The Moderating Role of Home Country Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Market Internet Penetration	37
Global Value Chain Participation and Business Performance in the Manufacturing Sector: A Firm-Level Panel Analysis	37
Democracy and Natural Resources: Their Institutional Impact on Tax Haven Use by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	31
A Review of International Management Research on Corporate Taxation	29
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship and Foreign Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Multinationals: A Loose Coupling Perspective	26
How Crisis-Driven Time Compression Affects Digital Network Synchronisation in SMEs	24
It Takes Two to Tango: Country-of-Origin Effects and Acquisition Premiums in Cross-Border M&As	23
Returns to Internationalization: Business Group-Affiliated Firms vs Standalone Firms	23
Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study	22
Internationalization Process Dimensions and Overseas Subsidiary Survival: Evidence from Born Global Firms in Emerging Markets	21
E-Commerce Policy and International Business	19
It’s Not What It Is; It’s What It Seems: The Moderating Role of Home-Country Cultural Institutions on Political Risk and Equity-Based Entry Decisions—A Meta-Analysis	18
Early Internationalization in Family and Non-family Firms: Performance Implications and the Role of Non-family Managers	18
Growing Old, but Paying Back: Understanding How Age Influences Corporate Social Innovation Depth and Breadth of Multinationals in Weak Institutional Contexts	17
Are More Foreign Sales Better for the Financial Performance? An Institutional and Resource-based Perspective	16
The Global Factory Revisited	16
Rethinking the Theory of the Multinational Enterprise: Structural Dynamics and the Future of Work	15
The Diary Method in International Management Research	15
Platform-Based Internationalization of Smaller Firms: The Role of Government Policy	15
Institutional Complementarity and Substitution in Indian Multinational Enterprises’ Cross-Border Investment Decisions	15
Acknowledgement to MIR Board Members and Ad hoc Reviewers 2024	14

Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries for Deletion and Redeployment	14
Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture	13
MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions	13
“Am I Different?” The Unseen Divide of Communication Overaccommodation and Its Effect on Employees’ Sense of Belonging and Job Satisfaction	12
Managing Shadow IT in Cross-Border Acquisitions: A Case Study of a German Multinational	12
The Performance of Decision-Making Strategies in SME Internationalization: The Role of Host Market’s Institutional Development	11
Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets	11
Conducting Research in International Business Through a Complex Adaptive Systems Lens	11
History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice	11
Context Effects on Importer Dependence in Export Business Relationships: The Fire Smolders Under the Ice	11
Irregular and Interrupted Internationalization Pathways: An Event System Approach to Understand the Role of Critical Events	11
Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	11
How to Synergize Different Institutional Logics of Firms in Cross-border Acquisitions: A Matching Theory Perspective	11
Predicting Cross-border Merger and Acquisition Completion through CEO Characteristics: A Machine Learning Approach	10
The Interplay of Conflicting and Complementing Institutional Logics in Sustainability Practices	10
Mining in Emerging Markets: Community Relations and the Social License to Operate	10
Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams	9
The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises	9
Taking Stock and Construct Cleanup: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Host Country Nationals’ Supportive Behaviors Toward Expatriates	9
E-commerce Policy and the Global Economy: A Path to More Inclusive Development?	8
The Roads Not Taken: Issue Selling and Post-decisional Sensemaking in Multinational Corporations	8
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types	8
When Born Globals Grow Up: A Review and Agenda for Research on the Performance of Maturing Early Internationalizers	8
Determinants of Wholly Owned Foreign Direct Investments in E-Commerce Firms: A Hierarchical Country- and Firm-Level Analysis	7
Foreign Equity Valuations of Emerging Market Firms: The Effects of Institutional Distance and Information Spillovers	7
Speed of International Expansion: The Mediating Role of Network Resources Mobilisation	7
Language Operative Capacity in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	7
Word of Investment: The Role of Language as an Institution in FDI	7
Ethical Issues in International Business Research	7
Overcoming the ESG Voids at Home: Supplier ESG Performance and the Internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	7
Dynamic Capability Drivers and Performance Outcomes of Strategic Import Planning: The Moderating Role of Organizational Resources and Market Factors	6
Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy	6
The Curvilinear Impact of Cultural Friction on Foreign Divestment	6
Dynamic Capabilities, Internationalization and Growth of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Roles of Research and Development Intensity and Collaborative Intensity	6
Stakeholder Influences and MNC Subsidiaries’ CSR Under Institutional Voids: An Empirical Examination of International Service Enterprises in Korea	6
Roles of Market Characteristics and Experience in Ventures’ International Growth Mode Choice: A Conjoint Experiment	5
Effects of National Institutions on Corporate Brand Ability Associations During the Pandemic	5
Multinational Corporations’ Interactions with Host Institutions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward	5
Due Diligence in International Alliances: Performance Outcomes and the Moderating Effect of Geographic Distance and Partner-Specific Experience	5
Publisher Correction: Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	5
An Enquiry into MNEs’ CSR Practices: Literature Assessment, Managerial Implications, and Academic Perspectives	5
Building Bridges with Words and Networks: A Moderated Mediation Model of Language Proficiency, Host-Country Nationals, and Expatriate Adjustment	5
From Barriers to Gateways: Leveraging Institutional Change for SMEs’ Access to International Markets	4
Management of Global Value Chains and Risk: An Application to Emerging Markets	4
Bilateral Influence Capacity, Geopolitical Competition, and Chinese Expatriate Workers in Africa	4
Cross-Border Dynamics of IP Modularity: International Patenting in LEDs and Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Technology	4
Effects of International E-Commerce Firms’ Depth versus Breadth of Control on Foreign Sales Performance and the Role of Market Size and Growth as Context Factors	4
Knowledge Sharing of Self-Initiated Expatriates: The Effects of Job Embeddedness, Career Capital, and Supervisor Incivility	4
Two Decades of International Business and International Management Scholarship on Africa: A Review and Future Directions	4
Correction: Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	4

Reverse Efficiency Spillovers from Host Country Banks to Foreign Banks: Evidence from Emerging Market Bank Subsidiaries in Developed Markets	4
Pollution Haven, Private Politics, and Competitive Dynamics: How Do Irresponsible MNEs Challenged by an International NGO Compete to Act Responsibly?	3
Pay Dispersion and Firms’ Internationalization Strategy: Evidence from China	3
Market or Community? An Institutional Logics Interpretation of how MNE Subsidiaries Respond to Mandated Social Innovation in India	3
Accelerated Internationalization of SMEs: Combination of Digital and Non-Digital Related Antecedents	3
E-commerce Policy Environment, Digital Platform, and Internationalization of Chinese New Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Beggars Cannot be Choosers? How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Direct Problemistic Search at Firm Internationalization	3
Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges of International Service Firms: An Introduction and Research Agenda	3
The Role of Ethical Leadership’s CSR Initiatives and Leader’s Trait Mindfulness in Consumer Well-Being in Multinational Hotels	3
Real Options Reasoning and the Internationalization of Small Firms: A Review and Agenda for Future Research	3
Protectionism and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Undertaken by US Multinational Enterprises: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection	3
Too Far East is West: CEO Overconfidence Influences Firm Internationalization in Emerging Economies	3
The Influence of Foreign Ownership on Firm’s Digital Orientation: Evidence from China	3
Political Risk, Bargaining Power, and the Target Selection of Cross-Border Acquisitions	3
Let Us Halt the Resurgence of Protectionism: Trade Openness, Innovation Ecosystem, and Workforce Diversity in the Knowledge-Based Economy	3