OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Business Review is 17. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring joint conformance to board independence and board gender diversity norms: An actor-centered configurational approach	432
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	199
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	156
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	134
Managing resource constraints through international networks: Capability development and incremental and radical innovation in emerging markets	124
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	120
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	92
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	80
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	73
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most	67
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers	60
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	59
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	54
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	52
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	52
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	51
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	48
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	46
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?	45
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	45
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	43
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	43
Multinationality and strategic dynamic capabilities during sustainable development goals adoption: Evidence from a natural experiment	40
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	40
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	38

Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	37
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	37
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	37
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	36
Editorial Board	35
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	34
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	34
Why regional economic agreements matter more than multilateral and bilateral agreements: Evidence from trade and investment in East Asia	34
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	33
Editorial Board	33
Editorial Board	32
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships	32
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective	32
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?	32
Exploring one of the darker sides of expatriation: Chinese expatriates' experiences with petty corruption in Tanzania	32
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors	31
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns	30
Corporate governance, finance, and global strategy	30
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication	30
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets	29
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	29
Editorial Board	29
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions	29
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock	29
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research	29
Editorial Board	29
Does green attract green? The impact of place-based green policies on green FDI	27
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization	27
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn	27
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion	26
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships	26
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures	26
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?	26
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms	25
The predictive power of agency theory in a multipolar world	25
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms	25
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking	25
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets	25
How to shape internationalization: Footprint configurations of knowledge-intensive service firms	24
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms	24
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder	24
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?	23
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices	23
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy	22
Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image	22
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence	22
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm	22
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective	22
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

Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management	21
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
Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust	20
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises	20
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda	20
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension	20
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution	20
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?	20
A state-market interplay framework for strategic knowledge management in Chinese MNEs	20
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions	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
What have we learned about the internationalization of digital platform firms? Orchestration, legitimation, and the endogenous role of institutions	20
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation	19
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions	19
Impact of organizational culture on employee psychological safety perception: The pivotal role of trust in top management across 18 societies	19
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms	18
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms	18
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance	18
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business	18
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations	18
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations	17
Corruption and intrapreneurship	17
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance	17
Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective	17
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias	17
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs	17