OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Management is 10. 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
Exploring the Impact of Cross-side Network Interaction on Digital Platforms on Internationalization of Manufacturing Firms	31
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
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 Board	16
R&D alliance portfolio and innovation in an emerging market: The role of business group affiliation and institutional reforms	16
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
A configurational approach to political risks and institutional logics	15
Politicians' risk aversion and stake-sought in cross-border acquisitions	15
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
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
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
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