OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Business Review is 30. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	228
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	121
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	105
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	83
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	79
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	78
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	72
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	67
Editorial Board	66
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	61
Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools	59
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	58
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	55
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	52
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	49
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	48
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	47
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	45
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	43
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	39
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop	36
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	35
Editorial Board	34
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	34
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	33

Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	33
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	33
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	31
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	31
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	30
Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese	30