OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Management is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic agility in international business: A conceptual framework for “agile” multinationals	100
Internet and SMEs' internationalization: The role of platform and website	67
Knowledge-based HRM practices and innovation performance: Role of social capital and knowledge sharing	63
Foreign language skill, anxiety, cultural intelligence and individual task performance in global virtual teams: A cognitive perspective	53
Strategic agility and international joint ventures: The willingness-ability paradox of family firms	48
The role of internationalization in enhancing the innovation performance of Chinese EMNEs: A geographic relational approach	47
International Digital Competence	45
Subsidiary innovation performance: Balancing external knowledge sources and internal embeddedness	39
Institutional voids and firms' resource commitment in emerging markets: A review and future research agenda	38
Do cultural differences impact ethical issues? Exploring the relationship between national culture and quality of code of ethics	38
Elevating talents' experience through innovative artificial intelligence-mediated knowledge sharing: Evidence from an IT-multinational enterprise	38
Greenfield or M&A? An institutional and learning perspective on the establishment mode choice of Chinese outward investments	35
Management research in the Arab World: What is now and what is next?	34
The disruption of the international supply chain: Firm resilience and knowledge preparedness to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak	33
Country institutional environments and international strategy: A review and analysis of the research	33
Modelling the effects of institutional support and international knowledge on competitive capabilities and international performance: Evidence from an emerging economy	32
Heuristics in international business: A systematic literature review and directions for future research	32
Culture and cross-functional coopetition: The interplay of organizational and national culture	32
Enterprise social network for knowledge sharing in MNCs: Examining the role of knowledge contributors and knowledge seekers for cross-country collaboration	32
Investigating Investments in agility strategies in overcoming the global financial crisis - The case of Indian IT/BPO offshoring firms	30
Managing digital transformation during re-internationalization: Trajectories and implications for performance	29
Enriching internationalization process theory: insights from the study of emerging market multinationals	29
Crossing Cultural Boundaries Using the Internet: Toward Building a Model of Swift Trust Formation in Global Virtual Teams	28
A stratified system of knowledge and knowledge icebergs in cross-cultural business models: Synthesising ontological and epistemological views	28
Consequences of expatriate top manager replacement on foreign subsidiary performance	26

Organizational learning, unlearning and re-internationalization timing: Differences between emerging- versus developed-market MNEs	26
The effect of informal and formal institutions on foreign market entry selection and performance	25
Home country learning and international expansion of emerging market multinationals	25
Communication accommodation within global virtual team: The influence of cultural intelligence and the impact on interpersonal process effectiveness	24
How does crisis management in China differ from the West?: A review of the literature and directions for future research	24
How FDI Inflows to Emerging Markets Are Influenced by Country Regulatory Factors: An Exploratory Study	23
Customer knowledge sharing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions: The role of customer motivation and promise management	22
The impact of external, internal, and dual relational embeddedness on the innovation performance of foreign subsidiaries: Evidence from a developing country	21
How does experience change firms' foreign investment decisions to non-market events?	21
Do dimensions of culture exist objectively? A validation of the revised Minkov-Hofstede model of culture with World Values Survey items and scores for 102 countries	21
A repositioning organizational knowledge dynamics by functional upgrading and downgrading strategy in global value chain	20
Between a rock and a hard place: Internal- and external institutional fit of MNE subsidiary political strategy in contexts of institutional upheaval	20
Digital Transformation and International Strategies	20
Overcoming blind spots in global sourcing research: Exploiting the cross-sections between supply chain management and international business	20
A paradigm shift in the global strategy of MNEs towards business ecosystems: A research agenda for new theory development	20
Business incubators as international knowledge intermediaries: Exploring their role in the internationalization of start-ups from an emerging market	18
Forgotten travelers: Adjustment and career implications of international business travel for expatriates	18
Foreign market re-entry: A review and future research directions	17
Internationalization from Central and Eastern Europe: A systematic literature review	16
Knowledge capital in social and commercial entrepreneurship: Investigating the role of informal institutions	16
How do agile organizations contribute to environmental collaboration? Evidence from MNEs in Turkey	16
Non-market strategies and building digital trust in sharing economy platforms	15
Digital Internationalization of Traditional Firms: Virtual Presence and Entrepreneurial Orientation	15
Role of overseas ethnic and non-ethnic ties and firm activity in the home country in the internationalization of returnee entrepreneurial firms	15
Innovation strategy of latecomer firms under tight appropriability regimes: The Indian pharmaceuticals industry	15
The Quality of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX): A Multilevel Analysis of Individual-level, Organizational-level and Societal-level Antecedents	15
Institutional agency by MNEs: A review and future research agenda	15
Host countries' level of development and internationalization from emerging markets: A typology of firm strategies	15
The role of springboarding in economic catch-up: A theoretical perspective	14
Sustainable expatriate compensation in an uncertain environment	14
Cultural intelligence: An identity lens on the influence of cross-cultural experience	14
Multinational firms' pace of expansion within host countries: How high rates of pro-market reform hamper the local exploitation of foreign expansion knowledge	13
The Impact of Social Media and Digital Platforms Experience on SME International Orientation: The Moderating Role of COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Exploring the Impact of Cross-side Network Interaction on Digital Platforms on Internationalization of Manufacturing Firms	13
Seeking strategic assets within cross-border acquisition waves: a study of Indian firms	13
What are the effects of working away from the workplace compared to using technology while being at the workplace? Assessing work context and personal context in a global virtual setting	13
Improving subsidiaries' innovation through knowledge inflows from headquarters and peer subsidiaries	12
MNE dynamic capabilities in (un)related diversification	11
Enhancing the learning advantages of newness: The role of internal social capital in the international performance of young entrepreneurial firms	11
Digitalization, institutions and new venture internationalization	11
Expatriate family adjustment: How organisational support on international assignments matters	11
Do third-party certifications work in a weak institutional environment?	11
Board political ties and firm internationalization	11
Managing expatriates to achieve mutual benefits: An integrative model and analysis	11
How do formal and informal institutions influence firm profitability in emerging countries?	11
The impact of political capabilities and political markets on firms' decision to lobby	10
Location still matters! How does geographic configuration influence the performance-enhancing advantages of FDI spillovers?	10
Is offshoring dead? A multidisciplinary review and future directions	10
Organizational integration mechanisms and knowledge transfer effectiveness in MNCs: The moderating role of cross-national distance	10
Knowledge sharing dynamics in international subcontracting arrangements: The case of Finnish high-tech SMEs	10

Gender diversity management in foreign subsidiaries: A comparative study in Germany and Japan	10
Reverse innovation transfer in Chinese MNCs: The role of political ties and headquarters	10
Can organizations help adjust?: The effect of perceived organizational climate on immigrants' acculturation and consequent effect on perceived fit	10
Liability of ecosystem integration and internationalisation of digital firms	10
Strategic agility, internationalisation speed and international success — The role of coordination mechanisms and growth modes	10
Advancing our understanding of cultural heterogeneity with unsupervised machine learning	9
Financial performance and global start-ups: the impact of knowledge management practices	9
Exploring culture and leadership after 23 years: A replication of GLOBE project in Turkey	9
Revisiting Institutional Voids: Advancing the International Business Literature by Leveraging Social Sciences	9
Agile route-to-market distribution strategies in emerging markets: The case of Paraguay	9
A knowledge tension perspective on management control and performance in international joint ventures	9
Knowledge recontextualization by returnee entrepreneurs: The dynamic learning perspective	9
Subsidiary power, cultural intelligence and interpersonal knowledge transfer between subsidiaries within the multinational enterprise	9
Knowledge transfer and home-market innovativeness: A comparison of emerging and advanced economy multinationals	9
Genetic distance, international experience and the performance of cross-border R&D for EMNEs	9
The Internet and the International Management Literature: Its development and intellectual foundation	8
Institutional distance and ownership in foreign acquisitions	8
The influence of cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence on conflict occurrence and performance in global virtual teams	8
Making Geographic Dispersion Work for Emerging Market MNEs	8
Poison or antidote: How subnational informal institutions exacerbate and ameliorate institutional voids	8
Knowledge acquisition of Chinese expatriates: managing Chinese MNEs in Kazakhstan	8
Digital technology-based entrepreneurial pursuit of the marginalised communities	8
The micro-foundations of the returnee liability: The interpersonal challenges of returnee entrepreneurs in Kenya	8
Cultural values and innovation: The mediating role of entrepreneurial learning capacity	8
Where business networks and institutions meet: Internationalization decision-making under uncertainty	7
Performance implications of MNE subsidiary federation: Evidence from India	7
Foreign interfirm networks and internationalization: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	7
When do host country nationals help expatriates? The roles of identification with the multinational enterprise and career development support by the subsidiary	7
Indulgence and risk-taking behavior of firms: Direct and interactive influences	7
Internationalization of R&D and Innovation Performance in the Pharma Industry	7
Home governments and MNEs in Russia: Relationships and MNE external legitimacy	7
The Digital Challenge for Multinational Mobile Network Operators. More marginalization or rejuvenation?	7
Exploring the internationalization strategies of Turkish multinationals: A multi-perspective analysis	7
Causal attribution for peer performance and international joint venture divestment	7
When the Minority Rules: Leveraging Difference While Facilitating Congruence for Cultural Minority Senior Leaders	6
International governance mode choice: Evidence from Brazilian franchisors	6
Adjustment and work outcomes of self-initiated expatriates in the United Arab Emirates: Development and testing of a model	6
Breaking the looking glass: Understanding how emerging market multinationals develop unique firm-specific advantages	6
A micro-level perspective on the implementation of corporate social responsibility practices in multinational corporations	6
Foreign market knowledge, entry mode choice and SME international performance in an emerging market	6
Culture, connectedness, and international adoption of disruptive innovation	6
Effect of outgroup social categorization by host-country nationals on expatriate premature return intention and buffering effect of mentoring	6
Generating a Scandal: Non-market Activity to Stop a Cross-Border Merger and Acquisition	6
Cross-border M&As: The impact of cultural friction and CEO change on the performance of acquired companies	6
How Do SMEs Decide on International Market Entry? An Empirical Examination in the Middle East	6
Untangling the commonalities and differences between domestic cross-regional experience and international experience in shaping speed of internationalization	5
Institutional distance and the international market entry mode: A meta-analysis	5
How MNE subsidiaries transfer HRM practices in distant environments: A tale of two IKEA subsidiaries	5
Internationalization of Digital Innovations: A Rapidly Evolving Research Stream	5
OFDI performance of EMNEs: A review and recommendations for future research	5
Host country culture and language identification, and their workplace manifestations: A study on corporate expatriates in China and Japan	5
Internationalization pathways of Chinese private firms: A closer look at firm-specific advantages	5
Dual Organizational Identification in Multinational Enterprises and Interpersonal Horizontal Knowledge Sharing: A Conceptual Model	5
The Effect of Outward and Inward Internationalisation on Different Types of Innovation: Evidence from UK SMEs	5
Expatriate justice and host country nationals' work outcomes: Does host country nationals' language proficiency matter?	5
The Role of Emotions in Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: A Systematic Review of the Inter-Disciplinary Literature and Future Research Agenda	5
External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis	5
Unveiling the black box of IJV innovativeness: The role of explicit and tacit knowledge transfer	5
A cross-national perspective of compassion's role in driving social entrepreneurial intentions	5
What types of top management teams' experience matter to the relationship between political hazards and foreign subsidiary performance?	4
Additive Manufacturing and Production Internationalization: An Internalization Perspective	4
Us and them: Disentangling forms of identification in MNCs	4
Unpacking the relationship between post-entry speed of internationalization and export performance of SMEs: A capability-building perspective	4
Building Trusting Multicultural Organizations: Rethinking the Influence of Culture on Interpersonal Trust Development in the Workplace	4
Not running out of steam after 30 years: The enduring relevance of Central and Eastern Europe for international management scholarship	4
Shared leadership across cultures: Do traditionalism and virtuality matter?	4
Journal of International Management: A 25-year review using bibliometric analysis	4
Does owner CEO narcissism promote exporting SMEs' market spreading strategy? Joint effects of asset-specific investments and firm exporting experience	4
Deepening the timing dimension of emerging market multinational companies’ internationalization – An exploratory perspective	4
Internationalization, institutional pressures in foreign markets, and environmental sustainability	4
Whither Globalization?	4
Labor market integration of refugees: An institutional country-comparative perspective	4
Corporate Political Activity and Firm Performance: The Moderating Effects of International and Product Diversification	4
Scale or efficiency? Performance shortfall and engagement in production activities of foreign subsidiaries in China	4
Pathways to innovation in Romanian software SMEs: Exploring the impact of interdependencies between internationalisation and knowledge sources	4