OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Business Review is 29. 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
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	176
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	104
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	99
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	75
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	67
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	65
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	65
Editorial Board	64
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	62
Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools	62
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	61
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	56
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	55
Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review	51
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	51
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	51
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	49
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	48
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	42
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop	40
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	38
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	38
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	37
The impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the strategic asset seeking motives of Chinese multinational enterprises: An analysis of patent and trademark acquisitions	32
Editorial Board	31

A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	31
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	31
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	30
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	30
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	29
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	29
Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese	29