OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World Business 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	252
Editorial Board	165
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	137
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	105
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	93
Socio-political legitimacy: An integrative and interdisciplinary review and agenda for theory development in unit and programmatic approaches	82
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	82
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	79
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	78
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	60
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	59
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	59
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	54
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	48
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	47
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	44
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	44
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	43
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	43
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	41
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	41
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	41
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	39
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	39
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	38

Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	37
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	36
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	36
Editorial Board	36
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	35
Unlearning diversity management	35
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	35
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	34
The digital transformation of international business: A conceptualization, multidisciplinary review, and research agenda	32
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	31
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	31
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	30
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	30
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	30
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	29
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	29
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	29
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	28
Editorial Board	27
Corporate military activities and key frontiers in international business research	27
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	26
Editorial Board	25
International business under sanctions	25
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	24
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	24
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	24
Editorial Board	24
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	22
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	22
Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity	22
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	21
Editorial Board	21
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences	21
Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa	20
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	20
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research	19
Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration: the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust	18
On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries	18
The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia	18
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	17
Editorial Board	17
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	17
Boundary-spanning coordination: Insights into lateral collaboration and lateral alignment in multinational enterprises	17
Editorial Board	16
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms	16
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	16
Lateral collaboration and boundary-spanning from a global leadership perspective: The case of global account managers	16
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda	16

Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	16
‘Caught in the middle’: Effects on and reactions of Vietnamese timber exporters in the context of US-China economic sanctions	16
How much does host country matter, really?	16
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	16
Towards a behavioral theory of MNC response to political risk and uncertainty: The role of CEO wealth at risk	15
Exploring Corporate Philanthropy, Home Country Foreign Aid, and Country of Origin-Based Stigma for Multinational Enterprises: An Experimental Study	15
Editorial Board	15
When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business	15
Editorial Board	15
Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda	14
Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products	14
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts	14
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward	14
How trade sanctions impact MNE subsidiaries in Russia: Responses to legitimacy concerns and performance	13
Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter?	13
Multinational enterprise parent-subsidiary governance and survival	13
The internationalization of digital platform-based firms: A systematic literature review and directions for future research	13
Political ideology and the multinational enterprise: Broadening the epistemological lens	13
How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?	12
Learning and innovation of Chinese firms along the paths of “Bring In” to “Go Global”	12
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions	12
Editorial Board	11
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	11
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience	11
Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze?	11
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	11
Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Poverty, internationalization, and environmental injustice: A postcolonial theoretical perspective	11
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals	10
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes	10
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	10
Editorial Board	10
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	10
Editorial Board	10