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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Second-Class Citizens or Free Agents? Social Construction of Equity Perceptions of Contractors in Global Offshoring Arrangements	132
Springboarding and activity load: Constraints on managerial attention and dependency on advisory firms in cross-border acquisitions	99
Internationalization of Digital Innovations: A Rapidly Evolving Research Stream	67
Advancing our understanding of cultural heterogeneity with unsupervised machine learning	46
All or nothing: International coalitions responding to competing pressures in challenges to IP rights	43
Editorial Board	43
The connections that bind: Political connectivity in the face of geopolitical disruption	38
Knowledge acquisition of Chinese expatriates: managing Chinese MNEs in Kazakhstan	37
Non-market strategies and disruptive innovation in the platform economy	35
Unpacking the relationship between post-entry speed of internationalization and export performance of SMEs: A capability-building perspective	34
International corporate social responsibility and post-entry performance of developing market INVs: The moderating role of corporate governance mechanisms	33
Action, Reaction and Resignation: How Refugee Women and Support Organisations Respond to Labour Market Integration Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic	31
Editorial Board	31
Exploring the Impact of Cross-side Network Interaction on Digital Platforms on Internationalization of Manufacturing Firms	31
Linking Dynamic Absorptive Capacity and Service Innovation for Born Global Service Firms: An Organization Innovation Lens Perspective	30
Expanding Inclusive Markets through Corruption Control: A Multilevel Modeling Analysis for a Grand Challenge	30
When power shifts towards women or lesbian and gay coworkers: Effects on trust in coworkers and the role of firm international proactiveness	29
Do R&D activities foster globalization of young innovative companies? Empirical evidence from the Italian energy industry	29
The internationalization of hidden champions from Germany and the UK: An extension to the Born-Again Global path	28
Unveiling the black box of IJV innovativeness: The role of explicit and tacit knowledge transfer	27
Enriching internationalization process theory: insights from the study of emerging market multinationals	27
Managing mentoring for the labor market integration of humanitarian migrants	27
External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis	25
The Effect of Cross-border Acquisition Experience on Subsequent Cross-border Acquisitions: A Test of the S-shape Hypothesis	25
Marketplace platforms as game changers: Internationalization of smaller enterprises	25

Institutional distance and ownership in foreign acquisitions	22
Corporate social responsibility and brand performance: Evidence from Ghana	21
Editorial Board	21
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinational enterprises and the liability of emergingness	21
Assessing the impact of brexit on UK-based inventor teams' connectivity	21
Editorial Board	19
Workplace discrimination and overqualification among self-initiated expatriates: The moderating role of organizational legitimacy	18
When the Minority Rules: Leveraging Difference While Facilitating Congruence for Cultural Minority Senior Leaders	17
Unpacking coopetition in international strategic alliances: Dimensions, contingencies, and structures	17
Managing digital transformation during re-internationalization: Trajectories and implications for performance	17
Editorial on Doing business in Africa: Navigating opportunities and challenges in Africa's emerging markets	16
International business sustainability and global value chains: Synthesis, framework and research agenda	16
Between rock and a hard place: The impact of home country demand on exclusive international strategic alliances forged by new technology ventures	16
Dealing with high-risk environments: Institutional-based tools to reduce political risk costs	16
Editorial Board	16
R&D alliance portfolio and innovation in an emerging market: The role of business group affiliation and institutional reforms	16
African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies	15
The disruption of the international supply chain: Firm resilience and knowledge preparedness to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak	15
A configurational approach to political risks and institutional logics	15
Politicians' risk aversion and stake-sought in cross-border acquisitions	15
What effect does the aggregate industrial R&D offshoring have on you? A multilevel study	14
Refugees' language learning and career aspirations: An agentic lens	14
Building Trusting Multicultural Organizations: Rethinking the Influence of Culture on Interpersonal Trust Development in the Workplace	14
The role of R&D resource commitment in accessing co-location advantages	14
Towards the co-evolution of multinationals' and local firms' global strategies in an uncertain environment: Insights from International Joint Ventures	14
Editorial Board	13
Fostering assigned expatriates' thriving at work through cultural intelligence and local embeddedness: The role of relational attachment	13
Editorial Board	13
Knowledge recontextualization by returnee entrepreneurs: The dynamic learning perspective	12
How can MNEs benefit from internationalizing their R&D across countries with both weak and strong IPR protection?	12
Combatting global disruption through tertius iungens orientation of CEOs: A moderated-mediated mechanism	12
Role enactment of international human resource managers during the COVID-19 pandemic: New crisis management insights	12
Two heads are better than one: Determinants of European MNC's headquarters dispersion in their home region	11
Transitioning from CSR to CSV in a foreign subsidiary in China through temporal decoupling	11
The evolution of the ability to effectively innovate in a transnational organization – A configurational analysis	11
The international training of expatriates in Western subsidiaries of emerging multinational enterprises: A knowledge-based perspective	11
The contingency impact of culture on health security capacities for pandemic preparedness: A moderated Bayesian inference analysis	11
Elevating talents' experience through innovative artificial intelligence-mediated knowledge sharing: Evidence from an IT-multinational enterprise	11
Transnational entrepreneurship. Insights from female entrepreneurs in the modest fashion industry	11
Effective cooperation modes based on cultural and market similarities in interfirm relationships	11
Transcending conflict in global virtual teams: Multi-level effects of cultural intelligence and perceptions of conflict on subjective and objective outcomes	11
Getting the seal of approval: Pathways to subsidiary initiative acceptance	10
Global connectivity in a world of disruptions	10
Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective	10
Rethinking board structures in the age of multinational corporations: A global investigation	10
Subsidiary power, cultural intelligence and interpersonal knowledge transfer between subsidiaries within the multinational enterprise	10
The culprit behind bootleg music: The diverging roles of formal and informal institutions	10
Additive Manufacturing and Production Internationalization: An Internalization Perspective	10
Generous to a fault: Differential impact of CSR investments on financial gains in Indian market multinationals	10
Business incubators as international knowledge intermediaries: Exploring their role in the internationalization of start-ups from an emerging market	10

Racing to the bottom or seeking legitimacy? National environmental performance and the location strategies of Chinese MNEs	9
The experience dilemma: A nonlinear exploration of antecedents to entrepreneurial alertness	9
Achieving Global Convergence? Integrating disruptive technologies within evolving SME business models: A micro-level lens	9
Sustaining competence creation in the multinational enterprise: The role of piloting in subsidiaries	9
A microscope on de-risking	9
Towards Increased Understanding of Leadership in the African Context: Data From Seven Countries	9
Revisiting Institutional Voids: Advancing the International Business Literature by Leveraging Social Sciences	9
Nationalistic political rhetoric: measurement and preliminary insights	9
Editorial Board	9
Non-market strategies in weak institutional environments: The case of MNE subsidiaries in Cameroon	9
Effective strategies for humanitarian migrants' employment, inclusion and integration – The role of international management	9
Global disasters and the luck of the draw? A serendipity perspective on MNE responses to global disasters	9
MNEs' capabilities and their sustainable business in emerging markets: Evidence from MNE subsidiaries in China	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Breaking the looking glass: Understanding how emerging market multinationals develop unique firm-specific advantages	9
International connection, local disconnection: The (heterogeneous) role of global cities in local and global innovation networks	9
Examining the role of cross-cultural factors in the international market on customer engagement and purchase intention	8
The Determinants of Foreign Multinational Enterprise Firms' Board Governance in Caribbean Offshore Island Economies	8
Home country learning and international expansion of emerging market multinationals	8
Foreign subsidiary performance in multinational enterprises: The role of business development capabilities and resource deployment	8
The Impact of Social Media and Digital Platforms Experience on SME International Orientation: The Moderating Role of COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Internationalization, institutional pressures in foreign markets, and environmental sustainability	7
Navigating international entry via strategic alliances: Comparison of family and non-family firms	7
Leaders' cultural gap bridging behaviors and subordinates' work engagement in multinational teams	7
Safe-shoring and resource orchestration for B2B firms in emerging economies	7
Alternative ways of studying time in qualitative international business research: A review and future agenda	6
Adjustment and work outcomes of self-initiated expatriates in the United Arab Emirates: Development and testing of a model	6
The Formation, Consolidation, and Transition of International Brokerage Networks: The Case of an International New Venture in an Emerging Market	6
Organizational creativity: A microfoundation of the international business competence and performance link	6
Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach	6
Are proactive outbound cross-border mergers and acquisitions effective for firms' R&D? New evidence from emerging market enterprises	6
Effect of inward foreign direct investment on entrepreneurship productivity in emerging markets	6
Information distance: Conceptual development and empirical tests of a novel measure of cross-national distance	6
Making Sense of Socio-Political Risks in International Business: A Configurational Approach to Embracing Complexity	5
Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance	5
Examining how organizational continuities and discontinuities affect the job satisfaction of global contractors	5
Peer performance evaluations in global virtual teams: A longitudinal analysis of surface- and deep-level attributes	5
Deciphering relocation paths: A systematic literature review of near-shoring and friend-shoring	5
Leveraging foreign diversification to build firm resilience: A conditional process perspective	5
Organizational learning, unlearning and re-internationalization timing: Differences between emerging- versus developed-market MNEs	5
Editorial Board	5
Knowledge sharing dynamics in international subcontracting arrangements: The case of Finnish high-tech SMEs	5
Editorial Board	5
Relationship multiplexity, multiple resource acquisition, and export performance of emerging-market firms	5
Non-market strategies and building digital trust in sharing economy platforms	5
The influence of cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence on conflict occurrence and performance in global virtual teams	5
Fifty Shades of Ads. The Influence of Cultural and Institutional Factors on Television Advertisement Expenditure	5
State fragility and informal entrepreneurship: The moderating effects of human capital under varying temporal orientations	5
Making Geographic Dispersion Work for Emerging Market MNEs	5
Labor market integration of refugees: An institutional country-comparative perspective	5
Where business networks and institutions meet: Internationalization decision-making under uncertainty	4
When do firms overspend on CSR? The impacts of foreignness and institutional distance	4
Editorial Board	4
Host Country Nationals' Role Overload and Perspective Taking as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Role of Host Country nationals' Agreeableness	4
Internationalization from Central and Eastern Europe: A systematic literature review	4
Seeking strategic assets within cross-border acquisition waves: a study of Indian firms	4
Reverse knowledge transfer from subsidiaries to headquarters: Chinese firms in Africa	4
Organizational integration mechanisms and knowledge transfer effectiveness in MNCs: The moderating role of cross-national distance	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
Emerging market SMEs' internationalization enablers and their influence on internationalization patterns: The case of Turkish automotive suppliers	4
“We have performance appraisal every day and every hour”: Transferring performance management to Russia	4
Political lobbying by foreign firms: A new firm-level data set	4
Building resilience amidst geopolitical tensions: The case of U.S. MNE subsidiaries in China	4
Editorial Board	4
Board political ties and firm internationalization	4
Paradoxical organizational culture, authoritarian leadership, and international firm performance: evidence from international firms in China	4