OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Management is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Advancing our understanding of cultural heterogeneity with unsupervised machine learning	101
Second-Class Citizens or Free Agents? Social Construction of Equity Perceptions of Contractors in Global Offshoring Arrangements	85
Springboarding and activity load: Constraints on managerial attention and dependency on advisory firms in cross-border acquisitions	62
Internationalization of Digital Innovations: A Rapidly Evolving Research Stream	41
All or nothing: International coalitions responding to competing pressures in challenges to IP rights	40
Editorial Board	39
International corporate social responsibility and post-entry performance of developing market INVs: The moderating role of corporate governance mechanisms	37
Knowledge acquisition of Chinese expatriates: managing Chinese MNEs in Kazakhstan	36
Exploring the Impact of Cross-side Network Interaction on Digital Platforms on Internationalization of Manufacturing Firms	33
Action, Reaction and Resignation: How Refugee Women and Support Organisations Respond to Labour Market Integration Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic	31
Unpacking the relationship between post-entry speed of internationalization and export performance of SMEs: A capability-building perspective	30
Non-market strategies and disruptive innovation in the platform economy	29
Editorial Board	29
The connections that bind: Political connectivity in the face of geopolitical disruption	29
Unveiling the black box of IJV innovativeness: The role of explicit and tacit knowledge transfer	28
Enriching internationalization process theory: insights from the study of emerging market multinationals	28
Managing mentoring for the labor market integration of humanitarian migrants	26
Linking Dynamic Absorptive Capacity and Service Innovation for Born Global Service Firms: An Organization Innovation Lens Perspective	26
The internationalization of hidden champions from Germany and the UK: An extension to the Born-Again Global path	25
Do R&D activities foster globalization of young innovative companies? Empirical evidence from the Italian energy industry	25
Expanding Inclusive Markets through Corruption Control: A Multilevel Modeling Analysis for a Grand Challenge	24
The Effect of Cross-border Acquisition Experience on Subsequent Cross-border Acquisitions: A Test of the S-shape Hypothesis	23
When power shifts towards women or lesbian and gay coworkers: Effects on trust in coworkers and the role of firm international proactiveness	23
Marketplace platforms as game changers: Internationalization of smaller enterprises	21
Institutional distance and ownership in foreign acquisitions	21

Unpacking coopetition in international strategic alliances: Dimensions, contingencies, and structures	20
External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis	20
Editorial on Doing business in Africa: Navigating opportunities and challenges in Africa's emerging markets	18
Corporate social responsibility and brand performance: Evidence from Ghana	18
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinational enterprises and the liability of emergingness	18
Editorial Board	17
Assessing the impact of brexit on UK-based inventor teams' connectivity	17
When the Minority Rules: Leveraging Difference While Facilitating Congruence for Cultural Minority Senior Leaders	17
Editorial Board	16
Between rock and a hard place: The impact of home country demand on exclusive international strategic alliances forged by new technology ventures	16
International business sustainability and global value chains: Synthesis, framework and research agenda	16
Managing digital transformation during re-internationalization: Trajectories and implications for performance	16
Workplace discrimination and overqualification among self-initiated expatriates: The moderating role of organizational legitimacy	16
R&D alliance portfolio and innovation in an emerging market: The role of business group affiliation and institutional reforms	15
Editorial Board	15
A configurational approach to political risks and institutional logics	14
Dealing with high-risk environments: Institutional-based tools to reduce political risk costs	14
The disruption of the international supply chain: Firm resilience and knowledge preparedness to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak	14
African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies	14
Towards the co-evolution of multinationals' and local firms' global strategies in an uncertain environment: Insights from International Joint Ventures	13
Building Trusting Multicultural Organizations: Rethinking the Influence of Culture on Interpersonal Trust Development in the Workplace	13
Refugees' language learning and career aspirations: An agentic lens	13
The role of R&D resource commitment in accessing co-location advantages	13
Editorial Board	12
What effect does the aggregate industrial R&D offshoring have on you? A multilevel study	12
Editorial Board	11
Fostering assigned expatriates' thriving at work through cultural intelligence and local embeddedness: The role of relational attachment	11
Combatting global disruption through tertius iungens orientation of CEOs: A moderated-mediated mechanism	11
Transcending conflict in global virtual teams: Multi-level effects of cultural intelligence and perceptions of conflict on subjective and objective outcomes	11
The evolution of the ability to effectively innovate in a transnational organization – A configurational analysis	11
Getting the seal of approval: Pathways to subsidiary initiative acceptance	10
Rethinking board structures in the age of multinational corporations: A global investigation	10
Transitioning from CSR to CSV in a foreign subsidiary in China through temporal decoupling	10
How can MNEs benefit from internationalizing their R&D across countries with both weak and strong IPR protection?	10
Subsidiary power, cultural intelligence and interpersonal knowledge transfer between subsidiaries within the multinational enterprise	10
The international training of expatriates in Western subsidiaries of emerging multinational enterprises: A knowledge-based perspective	10
Transnational entrepreneurship. Insights from female entrepreneurs in the modest fashion industry	10
Elevating talents' experience through innovative artificial intelligence-mediated knowledge sharing: Evidence from an IT-multinational enterprise	10
Generous to a fault: Differential impact of CSR investments on financial gains in Indian market multinationals	10
Effective cooperation modes based on cultural and market similarities in interfirm relationships	10
The contingency impact of culture on health security capacities for pandemic preparedness: A moderated Bayesian inference analysis	10
Knowledge recontextualization by returnee entrepreneurs: The dynamic learning perspective	10
Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective	9
MNEs' capabilities and their sustainable business in emerging markets: Evidence from MNE subsidiaries in China	9
Additive Manufacturing and Production Internationalization: An Internalization Perspective	9
The culprit behind bootleg music: The diverging roles of formal and informal institutions	9
Racing to the bottom or seeking legitimacy? National environmental performance and the location strategies of Chinese MNEs	9
Navigating institutional change: An historical perspective of firm responses to pro-market reversals	9
Global disasters and the luck of the draw? A serendipity perspective on MNE responses to global disasters	9
Revisiting Institutional Voids: Advancing the International Business Literature by Leveraging Social Sciences	9

Business incubators as international knowledge intermediaries: Exploring their role in the internationalization of start-ups from an emerging market	8
Sustaining competence creation in the multinational enterprise: The role of piloting in subsidiaries	8
Non-market strategies in weak institutional environments: The case of MNE subsidiaries in Cameroon	8
Achieving Global Convergence? Integrating disruptive technologies within evolving SME business models: A micro-level lens	8
Nationalistic political rhetoric: measurement and preliminary insights	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
The experience dilemma: A nonlinear exploration of antecedents to entrepreneurial alertness	8
Genetic distance, international experience and the performance of cross-border R&D for EMNEs	8
Towards Increased Understanding of Leadership in the African Context: Data From Seven Countries	8
Breaking the looking glass: Understanding how emerging market multinationals develop unique firm-specific advantages	8
Effective strategies for humanitarian migrants' employment, inclusion and integration – The role of international management	7
A microscope on de-risking	7
Home country learning and international expansion of emerging market multinationals	7
Foreign subsidiary performance in multinational enterprises: The role of business development capabilities and resource deployment	7
The Determinants of Foreign Multinational Enterprise Firms' Board Governance in Caribbean Offshore Island Economies	7
Examining the role of cross-cultural factors in the international market on customer engagement and purchase intention	7
Internationalization, institutional pressures in foreign markets, and environmental sustainability	7
Leaders' cultural gap bridging behaviors and subordinates' work engagement in multinational teams	7
International connection, local disconnection: The (heterogeneous) role of global cities in local and global innovation networks	7
The Impact of Social Media and Digital Platforms Experience on SME International Orientation: The Moderating Role of COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Information distance: Conceptual development and empirical tests of a novel measure of cross-national distance	6
Alternative ways of studying time in qualitative international business research: A review and future agenda	6
Navigating international entry via strategic alliances: Comparison of family and non-family firms	6
Making Sense of Socio-Political Risks in International Business: A Configurational Approach to Embracing Complexity	6
Effect of inward foreign direct investment on entrepreneurship productivity in emerging markets	6
Are proactive outbound cross-border mergers and acquisitions effective for firms' R&D? New evidence from emerging market enterprises	6
Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach	6
Adjustment and work outcomes of self-initiated expatriates in the United Arab Emirates: Development and testing of a model	6
Organizational creativity: A microfoundation of the international business competence and performance link	6
The Formation, Consolidation, and Transition of International Brokerage Networks: The Case of an International New Venture in an Emerging Market	5
Making Geographic Dispersion Work for Emerging Market MNEs	5
State fragility and informal entrepreneurship: The moderating effects of human capital under varying temporal orientations	5
Examining how organizational continuities and discontinuities affect the job satisfaction of global contractors	5
Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance	5
Non-market strategies and building digital trust in sharing economy platforms	5
Labor market integration of refugees: An institutional country-comparative perspective	5
Editorial Board	5
Organizational learning, unlearning and re-internationalization timing: Differences between emerging- versus developed-market MNEs	5
Peer performance evaluations in global virtual teams: A longitudinal analysis of surface- and deep-level attributes	5
Editorial Board	5
Organizational integration mechanisms and knowledge transfer effectiveness in MNCs: The moderating role of cross-national distance	5
Fifty Shades of Ads. The Influence of Cultural and Institutional Factors on Television Advertisement Expenditure	5
The influence of cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence on conflict occurrence and performance in global virtual teams	5
Knowledge sharing dynamics in international subcontracting arrangements: The case of Finnish high-tech SMEs	5
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
“We have performance appraisal every day and every hour”: Transferring performance management to Russia	4
Reverse knowledge transfer from subsidiaries to headquarters: Chinese firms in Africa	4
Leveraging foreign diversification to build firm resilience: A conditional process perspective	4
Where business networks and institutions meet: Internationalization decision-making under uncertainty	4
Paradoxical organizational culture, authoritarian leadership, and international firm performance: evidence from international firms in China	4
Host Country Nationals' Role Overload and Perspective Taking as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Role of Host Country nationals' Agreeableness	4
Relationship multiplexity, multiple resource acquisition, and export performance of emerging-market firms	4
Acculturation spillovers between work and nonwork settings	4
Host country culture and language identification, and their workplace manifestations: A study on corporate expatriates in China and Japan	4
Internationalization from Central and Eastern Europe: A systematic literature review	4
What determines subunit integration in the multinational firm? A meta-analysis	3
The Effect of Outward and Inward Internationalisation on Different Types of Innovation: Evidence from UK SMEs	3
Editorial Board	3
Necessity- and opportunity-based female entrepreneurship across countries: The configurational impact of country-level institutions	3
Maintaining product quality consistency when offshoring to emerging markets: The role of subsidiary control	3
The impact of liability of foreignness on performance in hybrid organizations	3
Board political ties and firm internationalization	3
OFDI performance of EMNEs: A review and recommendations for future research	3
Political lobbying by foreign firms: A new firm-level data set	3
Does entrepreneurial autonomy always drive emerging market SMEs internationalization? An effectual logic perspective	3
Strategic renewal during crises - A pragmatist proposition for multinational enterprises in a globalized world	3
Seeking strategic assets within cross-border acquisition waves: a study of Indian firms	3
Disguise or disclose? How identities of individual entrepreneurs on digital platforms influence their international success	3
Business model innovation and international performance of emerging market international businesses	3
Editorial Board	3
The role of environmental sustainability in the relocation choices of MNEs: Back to the home country or welcome in a new host country?	3
Startups internationalizing in quest of a business model: The global prospecting of process niche firms	3
When do firms overspend on CSR? The impacts of foreignness and institutional distance	3