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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	371
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	180
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	137
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	120
Managing resource constraints through international networks: Capability development and incremental and radical innovation in emerging markets	115
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	102
Exploring joint conformance to board independence and board gender diversity norms: An actor-centered configurational approach	94
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	76
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	73
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	64
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	62
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	52
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	48
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most	46
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?	44
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	44
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers	43
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	42
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	42
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	41
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	41
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	38
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	38
Editorial Board	37
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	37

Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	36
Why regional economic agreements matter more than multilateral and bilateral agreements: Evidence from trade and investment in East Asia	35
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	35
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	34
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	33
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	32
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	32
Exploring one of the darker sides of expatriation: Chinese expatriates' experiences with petty corruption in Tanzania	31
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	31
Editorial Board	31
Editorial Board	31
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions	30
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?	30
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets	30
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective	30
Corporate governance, finance, and global strategy	29
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors	29
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns	29
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research	29
Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity	29
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking	28
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication	28
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships	28
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization	27
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms	27
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	27
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets	27
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock	26
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures	26
Editorial Board	26
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships	25
Editorial Board	25
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms	24
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn	24
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?	23
How to shape internationalization: Footprint configurations of knowledge-intensive service firms	23
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence	23
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion	23
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm	23
The predictive power of agency theory in a multipolar world	22
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder	22
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?	22
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms	21
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach	21
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective	21
Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image	21
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices	21
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness	21
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy	21
Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust	21

Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management	21
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions	20
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China	20
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature	20
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms	20
Impact of organizational culture on employee psychological safety perception: The pivotal role of trust in top management across 18 societies	19
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution	19
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation	19
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions	19
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension	19
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises	18
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions	18
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms	18
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance	17
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations	17
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance	17
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business	17
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms	17
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations	17
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?	17
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs	17
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias	17
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda	17