OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Management is 11. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Second-Class Citizens or Free Agents? Social Construction of Equity Perceptions of Contractors in Global Offshoring Arrangements	163
Internationalization of Digital Innovations: A Rapidly Evolving Research Stream	111
Social media platforms' use of nonmarket strategy to manage politically contentious issues in host countries: The case of TikTok in the US market	77
Springboarding and activity load: Constraints on managerial attention and dependency on advisory firms in cross-border acquisitions	43
Advancing our understanding of cultural heterogeneity with unsupervised machine learning	40
The connections that bind: Political connectivity in the face of geopolitical disruption	38
International corporate social responsibility and post-entry performance of developing market INVs: The moderating role of corporate governance mechanisms	37
Unpacking the relationship between post-entry speed of internationalization and export performance of SMEs: A capability-building perspective	35
Action, Reaction and Resignation: How Refugee Women and Support Organisations Respond to Labour Market Integration Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic	34
All or nothing: International coalitions responding to competing pressures in challenges to IP rights	33
Non-market strategies and disruptive innovation in the platform economy	32
Knowledge acquisition of Chinese expatriates: managing Chinese MNEs in Kazakhstan	32
Exploring the Impact of Cross-side Network Interaction on Digital Platforms on Internationalization of Manufacturing Firms	31
How do MNEs respond to internationalization tensions under “new globalization”: A paradoxical view	30
When power shifts towards women or lesbian and gay coworkers: Effects on trust in coworkers and the role of firm international proactiveness	30
Managing mentoring for the labor market integration of humanitarian migrants	29
The internationalization of hidden champions from Germany and the UK: An extension to the Born-Again Global path	29
Do R&D activities foster globalization of young innovative companies? Empirical evidence from the Italian energy industry	29
Linking Dynamic Absorptive Capacity and Service Innovation for Born Global Service Firms: An Organization Innovation Lens Perspective	28
Expanding Inclusive Markets through Corruption Control: A Multilevel Modeling Analysis for a Grand Challenge	28
Editorial Board	27
Unveiling the black box of IJV innovativeness: The role of explicit and tacit knowledge transfer	26
Marketplace platforms as game changers: Internationalization of smaller enterprises	22
The Effect of Cross-border Acquisition Experience on Subsequent Cross-border Acquisitions: A Test of the S-shape Hypothesis	22
External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis	22

Institutional distance and ownership in foreign acquisitions	21
How do you identify and leverage your advantage: Developing a resource repositioning framework	21
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinational enterprises and the liability of emergingness	20
Assessing the impact of brexit on UK-based inventor teams' connectivity	20
Editorial Board	20
Profitability and CSR: Inconsistent performance feedback and OFDI location choices for firms in emerging countries	19
Workplace discrimination and overqualification among self-initiated expatriates: The moderating role of organizational legitimacy	19
When the Minority Rules: Leveraging Difference While Facilitating Congruence for Cultural Minority Senior Leaders	19
Editorial Board	18
Unpacking coopetition in international strategic alliances: Dimensions, contingencies, and structures	18
Managing digital transformation during re-internationalization: Trajectories and implications for performance	17
International business sustainability and global value chains: Synthesis, framework and research agenda	17
Corporate social responsibility and brand performance: Evidence from Ghana	17
Editorial on Doing business in Africa: Navigating opportunities and challenges in Africa's emerging markets	17
R&D alliance portfolio and innovation in an emerging market: The role of business group affiliation and institutional reforms	16
The contribution of diaspora networks to the internationalisation of SMEs: a case study in the healthcare industry	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
A configurational approach to political risks and institutional logics	16
Politicians' risk aversion and stake-sought in cross-border acquisitions	16
Between rock and a hard place: The impact of home country demand on exclusive international strategic alliances forged by new technology ventures	16
African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies	15
Building Trusting Multicultural Organizations: Rethinking the Influence of Culture on Interpersonal Trust Development in the Workplace	15
Refugees' language learning and career aspirations: An agentic lens	15
Dealing with high-risk environments: Institutional-based tools to reduce political risk costs	15
The role of R&D resource commitment in accessing co-location advantages	15
Towards the co-evolution of multinationals' and local firms' global strategies in an uncertain environment: Insights from International Joint Ventures	15
The disruption of the international supply chain: Firm resilience and knowledge preparedness to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak	15
Fostering assigned expatriates' thriving at work through cultural intelligence and local embeddedness: The role of relational attachment	15
How can MNEs benefit from internationalizing their R&D across countries with both weak and strong IPR protection?	13
Role enactment of international human resource managers during the COVID-19 pandemic: New crisis management insights	13
Editorial Board	13
How do established multinational enterprises replicate digital business models across borders? The case of Telenor	13
Editorial Board	12
Transcending conflict in global virtual teams: Multi-level effects of cultural intelligence and perceptions of conflict on subjective and objective outcomes	12
Examining the financial slack–corporate social performance relationship across countries: The influence of formal institutions	12
What effect does the aggregate industrial R&D offshoring have on you? A multilevel study	12
Combatting global disruption through tertius iungens orientation of CEOs: A moderated-mediated mechanism	12
The evolution of the ability to effectively innovate in a transnational organization – A configurational analysis	12
Two heads are better than one: Determinants of European MNC's headquarters dispersion in their home region	11
The contingency impact of culture on health security capacities for pandemic preparedness: A moderated Bayesian inference analysis	11
Rethinking board structures in the age of multinational corporations: A global investigation	11
Getting the seal of approval: Pathways to subsidiary initiative acceptance	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
Transitioning from CSR to CSV in a foreign subsidiary in China through temporal decoupling	11
Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective	11
Knowledge recontextualization by returnee entrepreneurs: The dynamic learning perspective	11
Effective cooperation modes based on cultural and market similarities in interfirm relationships	11
Global connectivity in a world of disruptions	11

The international training of expatriates in Western subsidiaries of emerging multinational enterprises: A knowledge-based perspective