International Business Review

Article	Citations
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	384
Managing resource constraints through international networks: Capability development and incremental and radical innovation in emerging markets	182
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	143
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	122
Exploring joint conformance to board independence and board gender diversity norms: An actor-centered configurational approach	119
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	109
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	98
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	80
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	76
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	66
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	62
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most	52
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	49
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers	49
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	48
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?	48
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	47
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	45
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	44
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	42
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	41
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	39
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	38
Editorial Board	38

Why regional economic agreements matter more than multilateral and bilateral agreements: Evidence from trade and investment in East Asia	37
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	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	37
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	35
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	35
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	34
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	33
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	33
Exploring one of the darker sides of expatriation: Chinese expatriates' experiences with petty corruption in Tanzania	32
Editorial Board	32
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions	32
Editorial Board	32
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors	30
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns	30
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective	30
Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity	30
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships	29
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research	29
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication	29
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking	29
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?	29
Corporate governance, finance, and global strategy	29
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets	29
Editorial Board	28
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships	28
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 model	28
Editorial Board	28
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms	27
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn	26
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets	26
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization	25
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms	25
How to shape internationalization: Footprint configurations of knowledge-intensive service firms	24
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?	24
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures	24
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion	24
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock	24
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms	23
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder	23
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy	23
The predictive power of agency theory in a multipolar world	23
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices	22
Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust	22
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence	22
Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image	22
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?	22
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm	22
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness	21
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China	21
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective	21

The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions	21
Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management	21
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms	21
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach	21
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation	20
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution	20
Impact of organizational culture on employee psychological safety perception: The pivotal role of trust in top management across 18 societies	20
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms	20
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension	20
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature	20
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions	20
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance	19
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises	19
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions	19
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?	18
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations	18
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda	18
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business	18
A state-market interplay framework for strategic knowledge management in Chinese MNEs	18
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations	18
Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors	18
Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective	17
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance	17
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias	17
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms	17
CSR and stakeholder salience in MNE subsidiaries in emerging markets	17
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs	17
Informal institutions’ influence on FDI flows: A configurational fsQCA analysis of corruption as part of the MNEs’ FDI motivation system	16
Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?	16
Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination	16
When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A relational work context perspective	16
Overcoming the liability of foreignness: The effect of identity decoupling on acquirer’s post-acquisition performance	16
Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration	16
Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms	15
Corruption and intrapreneurship	15
Purpose versus profit: How institutions shape entrepreneurial success across countries	15
Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?	15
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports	15
Religion and foreign direct investment	15
A configurational approach for analyzing cultural values and performance in Global Virtual Teams	15
The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime	15
Digital standardization vs. adaptation: Mitigating the liability of outsidership – A literature review	15
Multinational enterprises (MNEs), heterogeneity in corporate social responsibility (CSR), and subsidiary employment in host countries: A signaling perspective	15
Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business	14
Unveiling the dynamics of exporting firms: How social media shapes export costs and relationships	14
Foreign company misconduct and how consumers’ punitive intent is influenced by country stereotypes and the perceived similarity between the foreign country and the home country	14
The role of CSR committee characteristics on R&D investments	14
Do technology-focused fast internationalizers’ performance measures change as they mature?	14
The impact of inward foreign direct investment bans on the configuration of global value chains	14
Should I stay or should I go now? Understanding terrorism as a driver of institutional escapism	14
Multinationality of family firms: The impact of business group affiliation	13
The legitimacy defeat of Huawei in the media: Cause, context, and process	13
Dynamic capability deployment: The roles of dominant logic and international entrepreneurial orientation	13
Unpacking unfair transaction experiences, competition, and imports in technology-intensive SMEs' FDI	13
MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach	13
CEO compensation, governance structure, and foreign direct investment in conflict-prone countries	13
The paradox and change of Russian cultural values	13
Government R&D support’s effects on export performance via innovation: An analysis of organizational motivators as moderators	13
Consumer dispositions: Meanings and non-meanings of outgroup favourability	13
The micro-contextual conditions that influence host-country nationals’ decisions about horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises in China	13
Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry	12
Editorial Board	12
A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US	12
Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains	12
Divesting or keeping overseas subsidiary production under rising production costs and uncertain market demands in host countries	12
Ethics and international business research: Considerations and best practices	12
With a little help from my friends: Institutional obstacles, networking, and SME exporting in emerging European and Asian economies	12
Digital IB risks: A systematic literature review through internalisation lenses	11
Looking back to look forward: Disruption, innovation and future trends in international human resource management	11
Using trademarks to fend off import competition: Evidence from the top R&D-spending companies	11
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology	11
The Tech Cold War, the multipolarization of the world economy, and IB research	11
How does the negotiation between “me” and “we” in professional identity influence interpersonal horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises: A conceptual model	11
Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research	11
Multinational enterprises’ subsidiary density and subsidiary survival: An attention-based perspective	11
Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History	11
How do virtual and relational ties affect international opportunity realization for emerging market born-global firms? A contingency model	11
Pursuing headquarters’ attention: Foreign subsidiaries’ strategic issue selling	11
Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals	11
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Breaking trust? International partnership exit and learning about opportunities	10
MNEs in crossfire: A critical review of global business-society tensions	10
Sharing economy companies’ internationalization: A business ecosystem strategy	10
Internationalization and Private Equity Partnerships: Legal Origin Heterogeneity and Fund Performance	10
Cross-border E-commerce, platform economy, and export product quality	10
Internationalization through social networks: A systematic review and future research agenda	10
Revisiting the relationship between product and international diversification in new ventures: The moderating effect of effectuation processes	10
Women’s representation on boards, diversity practices, and internationalization: Evidence from greenfield investment	10
CEOs’ regulatory focus and firm internationalization: The moderating effects of CEO overconfidence, narcissism and career horizon	10
Outsidership, network positions and cooperation among internationalizing SMEs: An industry evolutionary perspective	10
Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?	10
Institutional environments and conflict between foreign investors and local communities in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions	9
Ownership choices of emerging market micromultinationals (mMNEs) under uncertainty: A real option approach	9
The indirect effect of online marketing capabilities on the international performance of e-commerce SMEs	9
Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation	9
Turning decision-making logic into international performance among SMEs: Revealing the importance of international entrepreneurial marketing	9
Bilateral geopolitical risk and equity ownership in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging-market firms: Non-market strategies as legitimacy buffers	9
Breaking the glass ceiling: The home-host diffusion of gender-equal practice in multinational corporations (MNCs)	9
Corrigendum to “Impact of organizational culture on employee psychological safety perception: The pivotal role of trust in top management across 18 societies” [International Business Review 35 (2026)	9
Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation	9
The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type	9
Small firms’ non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets	9
Post-entry internationalization of born globals: The role of dynamic capabilities in accelerating growth	9
The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future	9
Institutional quality and investment disputes in emerging and frontier economies	9
More than just empathy: The influence of moral emotions on boycott participation regarding products sourced from politically contentious regions	9
Follow the mind or the heart? Asymmetric influences of affective versus cognitive country images on customer-service provider relationships	8
Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability	8
Editorial Board	8
Unveiling the power of supplier-country image on B2B customers' perceptions: Beyond the product’s beauty	8
Refugees’ employment: Adapting a structural inequality framework for multinational corporations	8
Compared to whom? Performance feedback and foreign divestment of MNEs	8
Time orientation in languages and agency costs	8
Intellectual property regimes and knowledge governance in MNEs: Expatriate staffing and R&D-manufacturing colocation	8
Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows	8
Corporate ownership types and internationalization strategies: The moderating role of home country capitalism	8
International network formation, home market institutional support and post-entry performance of international new ventures	8
Is environmental labeling certification a “green passport” for firm exports in emerging economies? Evidence from China	8
Editorial Board	8
Exploring relational norms in exporter-importer product innovation co-development: A qualitative study	8
Cultural dimensions and corporate controversies: The moderating role of corporate governance	8