International Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of International Business Review is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa176
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach104
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance99
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 markets67
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity65
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions65
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Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules62
Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools62
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies61
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy56
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions55
Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review51
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions51
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows51
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity49
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation48
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms42
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop40
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 acquisitions38
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model37
The impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the strategic asset seeking motives of Chinese multinational enterprises: An analysis of patent and trademark acquisitions32
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope31
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A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research31
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies30
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors30
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience29
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs29
Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese29
Toward fairer global reward: Lessons from international non-governmental organizations28
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Portfolio characteristics of outward foreign direct investment and dynamic performance of emerging economy firms: An option portfolio perspective28
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International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets28
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions26
Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity25
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective25
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research25
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?24
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns24
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships24
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors23
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Global value chains and the environmental sustainability of emerging market firms: A systematic review of literature and research agenda23
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships22
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization22
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Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking22
Valuation uncertainty, home and host market uncertainty, and cross-border seasoned equity offerings22
Distance is the spice, but not the whole enchilada: Country-pair psychic distance stimuli and country fixed effects in a deep learning implementation of the trade flow model22
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock22
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn22
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms21
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?21
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion21
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms21
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms21
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets21
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures21
Social support abroad: How do self-initiated expatriates gain support through their social networks?20
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm20
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?20
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices20
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder20
Assessing the effects of policies on China’s outward foreign direct investment20
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence19
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China19
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness19
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach19
Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management19
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy19
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Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image19
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension18
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature18
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions18
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms18
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises17
The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains17
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation17
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution17
Is there an advantage of emergingness? A politico-regulatory perspective17
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective17
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions17
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms17
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions16
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?16
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations16
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance16
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda16
Pattern of information technology use and relationship learning in international customer-supplier relationships16
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs15
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms15
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias15
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business15
Linking inward/outward FDI and exploitation/exploration strategies: Development of a framework for SMEs15
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance15
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations14
The efficacy of marketing skills and market responsiveness in marketing performance of emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets: The moderating role of competitive intensity14
Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors14
When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A relational work context perspective13
Informal institutions’ influence on FDI flows: A configurational fsQCA analysis of corruption as part of the MNEs’ FDI motivation system13
Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets13
Religion and foreign direct investment13
Corruption and intrapreneurship13
Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration13
CSR and stakeholder salience in MNE subsidiaries in emerging markets13
Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination13
Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms13
Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?13
Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?13
A vulnerable victim or a tacit participant? Extending the field of multinationals and corruption research12
Foreign company misconduct and how consumers’ punitive intent is influenced by country stereotypes and the perceived similarity between the foreign country and the home country12
The legitimacy defeat of Huawei in the media: Cause, context, and process12
Unveiling the dynamics of exporting firms: How social media shapes export costs and relationships12
Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective12
A systematic review of the relationship between international diversification and innovation: A firm-level perspective12
Becoming a small multinational enterprise: Four multinationalization strategies for SMEs12
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports12
The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime12
The role of CSR committee characteristics on R&D investments12
Challenges confronting the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative: Social networks and cross-cultural adjustment in CPEC projects12
Do technology-focused fast internationalizers’ performance measures change as they mature?11
Board member age, stock seasoning and the evolution of capital structure in Chinese firms11
A configurational approach for analyzing cultural values and performance in Global Virtual Teams11
Consumer dispositions: Meanings and non-meanings of outgroup favourability11
Divesting or keeping overseas subsidiary production under rising production costs and uncertain market demands in host countries11
Investigating the causal configurations of cost-efficient firms at the bottom of the pyramid11
Purpose versus profit: How institutions shape entrepreneurial success across countries11
CEO compensation, governance structure, and foreign direct investment in conflict-prone countries11
Government R&D support’s effects on export performance via innovation: An analysis of organizational motivators as moderators11
Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business11
Multilevel trust in international marketing of healthcare services: A five-country comparative study11
Should I stay or should I go now? Understanding terrorism as a driver of institutional escapism11
Unpacking unfair transaction experiences, competition, and imports in technology-intensive SMEs' FDI11
The micro-contextual conditions that influence host-country nationals’ decisions about horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises in China11
A co-evolution perspective of EMNE internationalization and institutions: An integrative framework of 5Cs10
With a little help from my friends: Institutional obstacles, networking, and SME exporting in emerging European and Asian economies10
The paradox and change of Russian cultural values10
A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US10
Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry10
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Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains10
Overcoming informal barriers to trade: Immigrant educational attainment vs. network competence10
MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach10
A multi-theory framework for understanding the reshoring decision10
Dynamic capability deployment: The roles of dominant logic and international entrepreneurial orientation10
Ethics and international business research: Considerations and best practices9
Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History9
Pursuing headquarters’ attention: Foreign subsidiaries’ strategic issue selling9
Strategic responses to extreme institutional challenges: An MNE case study in the Palestinian mobile phone sector9
The Tech Cold War, the multipolarization of the world economy, and IB research9
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Consequences of deindustrialisation for globalisation: Insights for international business8
Using trademarks to fend off import competition: Evidence from the top R&D-spending companies8
CEOs’ regulatory focus and firm internationalization: The moderating effects of CEO overconfidence, narcissism and career horizon8
Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research8
Sharing economy companies’ internationalization: A business ecosystem strategy8
How do virtual and relational ties affect international opportunity realization for emerging market born-global firms? A contingency model8
Foreign subsidiaries as vehicles of industry 4.0: The case of foreign subsidiaries in a post-transition economy8
Facilitating factors in the cross-cultural transfer of management practices: The case of a German multinational in Brazil8
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Revisiting the relationship between product and international diversification in new ventures: The moderating effect of effectuation processes8
Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals8
The influence of Islamic Work Ethic on employees’ responses to change in Kuwaiti Islamic banks8
How does the negotiation between “me” and “we” in professional identity influence interpersonal horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises: A conceptual model8
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology8
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Looking back to look forward: Disruption, innovation and future trends in international human resource management8
Contraction under minimum wages? Operational and financial advantages of multinational subsidiaries in China7
Small firms’ non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets7
Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?7
Pro-market institutions and outward FDI of emerging market firms: An institutional arbitrage logic7
Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation7
More than just empathy: The influence of moral emotions on boycott participation regarding products sourced from politically contentious regions7
Breaking trust? International partnership exit and learning about opportunities7
The indirect effect of online marketing capabilities on the international performance of e-commerce SMEs7
The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future7
Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation7
The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type7
Outsidership, network positions and cooperation among internationalizing SMEs: An industry evolutionary perspective7
The accelerating effect of institutional environment unfamiliarity on subsidiary portfolio expansion in a new host country7
Managing international joint ventures to improve performance: The role of structural and social mechanisms7
Internationalization through social networks: A systematic review and future research agenda7
The hunt for international legitimacy: Examining the relationship between internationalization, state ownership, location and CSR reporting of Russian firms7
Small exporting firms’ choice of exchange mode in international marketing channels for perishable products: A contingency approach6
Unveiling the power of supplier-country image on B2B customers' perceptions: Beyond the product’s beauty6
Institutional environments and conflict between foreign investors and local communities in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions6
Ownership choices of emerging market micromultinationals (mMNEs) under uncertainty: A real option approach6
Refugees’ employment: Adapting a structural inequality framework for multinational corporations6
Manage the value and liability of offshoring innovation6
Post-entry internationalization of born globals: The role of dynamic capabilities in accelerating growth6
Breaking the glass ceiling: The home-host diffusion of gender-equal practice in multinational corporations (MNCs)6
Intercultural competencies for emerging markets: A contextualized approach6
Do Chinese firms benefit from government ownership following cross-border acquisitions?6
Rethinking guanxi and performance: Understanding the dark side of Sino–U.S. business relationships6
Exploring relational norms in exporter-importer product innovation co-development: A qualitative study6
Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability6
The choice of master international franchising – A modified transaction cost model5
Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows5
Understanding professional migrant women’s successful career progression within the Big Four in Luxembourg5
Within-group differences: Differentiated Chinese expatriate-HCN interactions and the influence of human resource management practices5
Servant leadership, CSR perceptions, moral meaningfulness and organizational identification- evidence from the Middle East5
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The determinants of multinational enterprises' sustainable innovations5
Political affinity and opportunism in global supply chain: The mediating role of contractual and relational governance5
Intellectual property regimes and knowledge governance in MNEs: Expatriate staffing and R&D-manufacturing colocation5
International experience of a manager; toward a new conceptualization5
The impact of open innovation on the environmental sustainability practices and international sales intensity nexus: A multicountry study5
Foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship: Does the role of institutions matter?5
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Is environmental labeling certification a “green passport” for firm exports in emerging economies? Evidence from China5
International network formation, home market institutional support and post-entry performance of international new ventures5
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Engaging informal institutions through corporate political activity: Capabilities for subnational embeddedness in emerging economies5
Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems5
Compared to whom? Performance feedback and foreign divestment of MNEs5
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