OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of World Business is 29. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	217
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	176
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	96
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	89
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	73
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	70
Socio-political legitimacy: An integrative and interdisciplinary review and agenda for theory development in unit and programmatic approaches	67
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	65
Institutional distance and foreign firms’ live streaming use in the host market	56
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	52
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	51
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	50
Urban-suburban inventor connectivity and innovation quality: Evidence from intra-metropolitan innovation networks	47
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	47
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	41
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	41
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	40
Orchestrating boundary spanning for sustainable value: The cross-sector work of multinational enterprises	40
A hybrid approach to internationalization: An exploratory study of social enterprises	40
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	39
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	38
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	37
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	36
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	36
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	33

Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	32
Corrigendum to “Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas” [Journal of World Business, Volume 59, Issue 4, June 2024, 101552]	31
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	31
Unlocking international entrepreneurial opportunities: The impact of dynamic capabilities on creation and discovery	29
Editorial Board	29