OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Business Review is 14. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The art of writing literature review: What do we know and what do we need to know?	965
Corruption in international business: A review and research agenda	188
Research on international business: The new realities	139
Culture and International business research: A review and research agenda	99
Micro-foundational ambidexterity and multinational enterprises: A systematic review and a conceptual framework	82
The determinants and performance of early internationalizing firms: A literature review and research agenda	81
Nurturing International Business research through Global Value Chains literature: A review and discussion of future research opportunities	78
A bibliometric analysis of family firm internationalization research: Current themes, theoretical roots, and ways forward	75
The integrated use of social media, digital, and traditional communication tools in the B2B sales process of international SMEs	67
New OLI advantages in digital globalization	67
International entrepreneurship and the internationalization phenomenon: taking stock, looking ahead	66
Is marketing agility important for emerging market firms in advanced markets?	66
Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research	65
Decades of research on foreign subsidiary divestment: What do we really know about its antecedents?	61
How do cultural values influence entrepreneurial behavior of nations? A behavioral reasoning approach	57
Advancing knowledge on emerging markets: Past and future research in perspective	54
COVID-19 and business renewal: Lessons and insights from the global airline industry	53
The micro-foundations of strategic ambidexterity: Chinese cross-border M&As, Mid-View thinking and integration management	50
Where does ESG pay? The role of national culture in moderating the relationship between ESG performance and financial performance	47
Host country risk and foreign ownership strategy: Meta-analysis and theory on the moderating role of home country institutions	47
A multi-theory framework for understanding the reshoring decision	47
Post-entry internationalization speed of SMEs: The role of relational mechanisms and foreign market knowledge	46
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature	46
Microfoundations of network exploration and exploitation capabilities in international opportunity recognition	45
Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems	45

The indirect effect of online marketing capabilities on the international performance of e-commerce SMEs	44
Digital power: Value chain upgrading in an age of digitization	43
Foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship: Does the role of institutions matter?	43
Connecting big data management capabilities with employee ambidexterity in Chinese multinational enterprises through the mediation of big data value creation at the employee level	42
Global value chains and the environmental sustainability of emerging market firms: A systematic review of literature and research agenda	41
Rapid internationalization and exit of exporters: The role of digital platforms	40
Gender equality's impact on female directors’ efficacy: A multi-country study	38
Unpacking the effect of strategic ambidexterity on performance: A cross-country comparison of MMNEs developing product-service innovation	38
Home country institutional impediments and international expansion of developing country SMEs	38
Servant leadership, CSR perceptions, moral meaningfulness and organizational identification- evidence from the Middle East	37
The hunt for international legitimacy: Examining the relationship between internationalization, state ownership, location and CSR reporting of Russian firms	37
Antecedents to differentiation strategy in the exporting SME	37
How and when does co-production facilitate eco-innovation in international buyer-supplier relationships? The role of environmental innovation ambidexterity and institutional pressures	36
Cognitive foundations of firm internationalization: A systematic review and agenda for future research	36
The stock market performance of exploration-oriented and exploitation-oriented cross-border mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from emerging market enterprises	35
Emerging market multinationals’ firm-specific advantages, institutional distance, and foreign acquisition location choice	34
Liability of emergingness and EMNEs’ cross-border acquisition completion: A legitimacy perspective	32
International market exit by firms: Misalignment of strategy with the foreign market risk environment	31
The efficacy of marketing skills and market responsiveness in marketing performance of emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets: The moderating role of competitive intensity	30
Micro-foundations of organizational design and sustainability: The mediating role of learning ambidexterity	30
The international market selection of Chinese SMEs: How institutional influence overrides psychic distance	30
Foreign location decisions through an institutional lens: A systematic review and future research agenda	30
MNE-NGO partnerships for sustainability and social responsibility in the global fast-fashion industry: A loose-coupling perspective	29
Predictive and effectual decision-making in high-tech international new ventures – A matter of sequential ambidexterity	29
Strategic decision-making processes, international environmental munificence and the accelerated internationalization of SMEs	29
A co-evolution perspective of EMNE internationalization and institutions: An integrative framework of 5Cs	29
Innovation and export performance of emerging market enterprises: The roles of state and foreign ownership in China	28
Global value chain linkages: An integrative review of the opportunities and challenges for SMEs in developing countries	28
Intra and inter-country comparative effects of symbolic motivations on luxury purchase intentions in emerging markets	27
Strategic ambidexterity and innovation in Chinese multinational vs. indigenous firms: The role of managerial capability	27
International business, innovation and ambidexterity: A micro-foundational perspective	26
Does foreign direct investment promote institutional development in Africa?	26
A South-South perspective on emerging economy companies and institutional coevolution: An empirical study of Chinese multinationals in Africa	25
Harmonization of firm CSR policies across national contexts: Evidence from Brazil & Sweden	25
Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals	25
Risk management, legitimacy, and the overseas subsidiary performance of emerging market MNEs	24
Digitalization, internationalization, and firm performance: A resource-orchestration perspective on new OLI advantages	24
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology	23
The transformation of national patents for high-technology exports: Moderating effects of national cultures	23
Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review	23
Pro-market institutions and outward FDI of emerging market firms: An institutional arbitrage logic	23
Coping with complexity by making trust an important dimension in governance and coordination	22
Informal interorganizational business relationships and customer loyalty: Comparing Guanxi, Yongo, and Wasta	22
Exploring reverse knowledge transfer and asset augmentation strategy by developed country MNEs: Case study evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry	22
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop	22
Managing international joint ventures to improve performance: The role of structural and social mechanisms	22
Thirty years of International Business Review and International Business Research	21
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	21
Multinational enterprises and structural transformation in emerging and developing countries: A survey of the literature	21
The effect of inward FDI on outward FDI over time in China: A contingent and dynamic perspective	21

The effects of competition policy, regulatory quality and trust on inward FDI in host countries	21
Entrepreneurial orientation, export channel selection, and export performance of SMEs	21
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	20
Digitally immersive, international entrepreneurial experiences	20
A vulnerable victim or a tacit participant? Extending the field of multinationals and corruption research	20
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	19
Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment	19
MNEs and the practice of international business diplomacy	18
Mapping the evolution, current state of affairs and future research direction of managing cross-border knowledge for innovation	18
Unleashing the dynamics of product-market ambidexterity in the pursuit of international opportunities: Insights from emerging market firms	18
A longitudinal micro-foundational investigation into ambidextrous practices in an international alliance context–A case of a biopharma EMNE	18
Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: The ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience	18
Nationality biases in peer evaluations: The country-of-origin effect in global virtual teams	17
How does Industry 4.0 affect international exposure? The interplay between firm innovation and home-country policies in post-offshoring relocation decisions	17
Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets	17
Export market orientation: An integrative review and directions for future research	17
Coevolution of home country support and internationalization of emerging market firms	17
The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime	17
Interplay between dual dimensions of knowledge sharing within globalized chaebols: The moderating effects of organization size and global environmental munificence	17
Does parenting matter in subsidiary innovation in emerging economies? Exploring the role of parent superior competitiveness in affecting subsidiary contextual ambidexterity	17
Gaijin invasion? A resource dependence perspective on foreign ownership and foreign directors	16
Sources of knowledge and process innovation: The moderating role of perceived competitive intensity	16
Focused and ambidextrous catch-up strategies of emerging economy multinationals	16
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports	16
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder	15
The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains	15
Top management team’s formal network and international expansion of Chinese firms: The moderating role of state ownership and political ties	15
Assessing the effects of policies on China’s outward foreign direct investment	15
Heuristic decision-making in firm internationalization: The influence of context-specific experience	15
The paradox and change of Russian cultural values	14
Challenges confronting the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative: Social networks and cross-cultural adjustment in CPEC projects	14
Expatriates on the run: The psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on expatriates’ host country withdrawal intentions	14
Willingness to work for multinational enterprises from emerging countries: The case of Chinese multinational enterprises in the Netherlands	14
Performance feedback and location choice of foreign direct investment	14
International opportunity development on crowdfunding platforms: A spatial, temporal, and structural framework	14
Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors	14
Developing brand identities for international new ventures under uncertainty: Decision-making logics and psychic distance	14
Do Chinese firms benefit from government ownership following cross-border acquisitions?	14
Institutional voids, liability of origin, and presence of women in TMT of emerging market multinationals	14
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda	14