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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the Effects of Internationalization on CSR in Service and Non-Service MNEs	91
Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	53
Organizational Influences and Performance Impact of Cross-Border E-Commerce Barriers: The Moderating Role of Home Country Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Market Internet Penetration	51
Dealing with Trust Deficit and Liabilities of Foreignness in Host Countries: Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Australia	45
Global Value Chain Participation and Business Performance in the Manufacturing Sector: A Firm-Level Panel Analysis	41
A Review of International Management Research on Corporate Taxation	37
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship and Foreign Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Multinationals: A Loose Coupling Perspective	32
Democracy and Natural Resources: Their Institutional Impact on Tax Haven Use by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	30
Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study	27
Growing Old, but Paying Back: Understanding How Age Influences Corporate Social Innovation Depth and Breadth of Multinationals in Weak Institutional Contexts	22
Returns to Internationalization: Business Group-Affiliated Firms vs Standalone Firms	22
E-Commerce Policy and International Business	22
The Global Factory Revisited	19
Platform-Based Internationalization of Smaller Firms: The Role of Government Policy	18
The Diary Method in International Management Research	16
Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries for Deletion and Redeployment	16
Acknowledgement to MIR Board Members and Ad hoc Reviewers 2024	15
Institutional Complementarity and Substitution in Indian Multinational Enterprises’ Cross-Border Investment Decisions	15
MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions	14
“Am I Different?” The Unseen Divide of Communication Overaccommodation and Its Effect on Employees’ Sense of Belonging and Job Satisfaction	14
The Performance of Decision-Making Strategies in SME Internationalization: The Role of Host Market’s Institutional Development	14
Managing Shadow IT in Cross-Border Acquisitions: A Case Study of a German Multinational	13
Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets	13
Irregular and Interrupted Internationalization Pathways: An Event System Approach to Understand the Role of Critical Events	13
Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture	13

History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice	12
Context Effects on Importer Dependence in Export Business Relationships: The Fire Smolders Under the Ice	11
Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	11
Conducting Research in International Business Through a Complex Adaptive Systems Lens	11
How to Synergize Different Institutional Logics of Firms in Cross-border Acquisitions: A Matching Theory Perspective	10
Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams	10
The Interplay of Conflicting and Complementing Institutional Logics in Sustainability Practices	10
E-commerce Policy and the Global Economy: A Path to More Inclusive Development?	10
Predicting Cross-border Merger and Acquisition Completion through CEO Characteristics: A Machine Learning Approach	10
Taking Stock and Construct Cleanup: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Host Country Nationals’ Supportive Behaviors Toward Expatriates	10
The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises	9
Foreign Equity Valuations of Emerging Market Firms: The Effects of Institutional Distance and Information Spillovers	9
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types	9
When Born Globals Grow Up: A Review and Agenda for Research on the Performance of Maturing Early Internationalizers	9
Speed of International Expansion: The Mediating Role of Network Resources Mobilisation	9
Stakeholder Influences and MNC Subsidiaries’ CSR Under Institutional Voids: An Empirical Examination of International Service Enterprises in Korea	8
Ethical Issues in International Business Research	8
Overcoming the ESG Voids at Home: Supplier ESG Performance and the Internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	8
Too Much of Two Good Things: Explicating the Limited Complementarity Between Drivers of MNC Headquarters’ Absorptive Capacity	7
The Curvilinear Impact of Cultural Friction on Foreign Divestment	7
Effects of National Institutions on Corporate Brand Ability Associations During the Pandemic	7
Determinants of Wholly Owned Foreign Direct Investments in E-Commerce Firms: A Hierarchical Country- and Firm-Level Analysis	7
Dynamic Capability Drivers and Performance Outcomes of Strategic Import Planning: The Moderating Role of Organizational Resources and Market Factors	7
Language Operative Capacity in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	7
Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy	6
Due Diligence in International Alliances: Performance Outcomes and the Moderating Effect of Geographic Distance and Partner-Specific Experience	6
An Enquiry into MNEs’ CSR Practices: Literature Assessment, Managerial Implications, and Academic Perspectives	6
Building Bridges with Words and Networks: A Moderated Mediation Model of Language Proficiency, Host-Country Nationals, and Expatriate Adjustment	6
Dynamic Capabilities, Internationalization and Growth of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Roles of Research and Development Intensity and Collaborative Intensity	6
Roles of Market Characteristics and Experience in Ventures’ International Growth Mode Choice: A Conjoint Experiment	6
Multinational Corporations’ Interactions with Host Institutions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward	5
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	5
Management of Global Value Chains and Risk: An Application to Emerging Markets	5
Two Decades of International Business and International Management Scholarship on Africa: A Review and Future Directions	5
Cross-Border Dynamics of IP Modularity: International Patenting in LEDs and Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Technology	5
Bilateral Influence Capacity, Geopolitical Competition, and Chinese Expatriate Workers in Africa	5
Publisher Correction: Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	5
Reverse Efficiency Spillovers from Host Country Banks to Foreign Banks: Evidence from Emerging Market Bank Subsidiaries in Developed Markets	5
Correction: Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	5
Pollution Haven, Private Politics, and Competitive Dynamics: How Do Irresponsible MNEs Challenged by an International NGO Compete to Act Responsibly?	4
Knowledge Sharing of Self-Initiated Expatriates: The Effects of Job Embeddedness, Career Capital, and Supervisor Incivility	4
Protectionism and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Undertaken by US Multinational Enterprises: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection	4
Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges of International Service Firms: An Introduction and Research Agenda	4
Beggars Cannot be Choosers? How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Direct Problemistic Search at Firm Internationalization	4
E-commerce Policy Environment, Digital Platform, and Internationalization of Chinese New Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Pay Dispersion and Firms’ Internationalization Strategy: Evidence from China	3
Real Options Reasoning and the Internationalization of Small Firms: A Review and Agenda for Future Research	3
Political Risk, Bargaining Power, and the Target Selection of Cross-Border Acquisitions	3
The Role of Ethical Leadership’s CSR Initiatives and Leader’s Trait Mindfulness in Consumer Well-Being in Multinational Hotels	3
The Influence of Foreign Ownership on Firm’s Digital Orientation: Evidence from China	3

Market or Community? An Institutional Logics Interpretation of how MNE Subsidiaries Respond to Mandated Social Innovation in India	3
Too Far East is West: CEO Overconfidence Influences Firm Internationalization in Emerging Economies	3
Revisiting the Effect of Internationalization on Firm Governance: A Replication and Extension Study	3
Let Us Halt the Resurgence of Protectionism: Trade Openness, Innovation Ecosystem, and Workforce Diversity in the Knowledge-Based Economy	3