OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Business Review is 31. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	217
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	115
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	113
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	99
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	79
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	76
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	76
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	72
Editorial Board	67
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	66
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	66
Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools	61
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	56
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	54
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	53
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	51
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	49
Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review	44
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	43
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	43
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	42
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop	40
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	39
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	35
Editorial Board	34

Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	34
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	34
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	34
Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese	34
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	32
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	32
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	31