OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of World Business is 30. 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
Editorial Board	186
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	111
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	104
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	102
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	92
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	84
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	82
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	79
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	69
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	67
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	65
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	64
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	64
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	63
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	58
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	46
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	42
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	40
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	40
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	40
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	35
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	34
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	34
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	33
Editorial Board	31

Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	31
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	31
Addressing psychic distance and learning in international buyer-seller relationships: The role of firm exploration and asset specificity	30
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	30
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	30
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	30
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	30