OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World Business is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
International entrepreneurship in the post Covid world	226
Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise	136
Riding the waves of family firm internationalization: A systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda	105
Agility and flexibility in international business research: A comprehensive review and future research directions	102
The nature of innovation in global value chains	94
State ownership and internationalization: The advantage and disadvantage of stateness	87
The development of international e-commerce in retail SMEs: An effectuation perspective	86
Populism, political risk, and pandemics: The challenges of political leadership for business in a post-COVID world	80
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research	76
State capitalism in international context: Varieties and variations	76
Managing internationalization and innovation tradeoffs in entrepreneurial firms: Evidence from transition economies	74
Beyond disciplinary silos: A systematic analysis of the migrant entrepreneurship literature	72
International business under sanctions	69
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	68
The (COVID-19) pandemic and the new world (dis)order	67
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals	58
Strategic agility, dynamic relational capability and trust among SMEs in transitional economies	58
State ownership, political ideology, and firm performance around the world	55
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	54
The role of context in SME internationalization – A review	53
Cohesion, COVID-19 and contemporary challenges to globalization	52
Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India	51
Multinationals’ misbehavior	50
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	50
Global migrants: Understanding the implications for international business and management	49

Social Media Firm Specific Advantages as Enablers of Network Embeddedness of International Entrepreneurial Ventures	46
Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains	44
Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals	44
Multinational enterprises and the governance of sustainability practices in emerging market supply chains: An agile governance perspective	43
Unraveling asset recombination through the lens of firm-specific advantages: A dynamic capabilities perspective	41
Cultural diversity in top management teams: Review and agenda for future research	39
The impact of language barriers on knowledge processing in multinational teams	37
How founder characteristics imprint ventures’ internationalization processes: The role of international experience and cognitive beliefs	36
Mapping the terrain of international human resource management research over the past fifty years: A bibliographic analysis	36
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	34
Why is export-oriented entrepreneurship more prevalent in some countries than others? Contextual antecedents and economic consequences	33
Are voluntary international migrants self-selected for entrepreneurship? An analysis of entrepreneurial personality traits	32
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	32
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	31
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots	29
Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status	28
Outward FDI and Innovation Performance of Chinese Firms: Why Can Home-Grown Political Ties Be A Liability?	28
Global cities: A multi-disciplinary review and research agenda	28
Developing compositional capability in emerging-market SMEs	28
Reciprocity and informal institutions in international market entry	26
International springboard as an entrepreneurial act	25
Female executives and multinationals’ support of the UN's sustainable development goals	25
Foreign market entry knowledge and international performance: The mediating role of international market selection and network capability	24
On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries	23
Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda	23
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience	23
The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries	23
Exporting to escape and learn: Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains	22
Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa	22
Strategic agility in international business	22
International business policy in an age of political turbulence	21
Internationalization through foreign listing: A review and future research agenda	21
Hierarchical modelling in international business research: Patterns, problems, and practical guidelines	21
An FsQCA exploration of multiple paths to ecological innovation adoption in European transportation	20
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	20
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	20
Understanding time in qualitative international business research: Towards four styles of temporal theorizing	20
Unbundling the effects of host-country institutions on foreign subsidiary survival: A case for subsidiary heterogeneity	20
Introducing the eventful temporality of historical research into international business	19
Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs	19
Host country corporate income tax rate and foreign subsidiary survival	19
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions, technological gaps, and innovation performance of Chinese multinationals	19
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	19
International collaboration and innovation: Evidence from a leading Chinese multinational enterprise	19
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts	18
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	18
Performance feedback on sales growth goal and OFDI location choices for firms in emerging economies	18
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	18
Export promotion programs: A system-based systematic review and agenda for future research	17
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	17

The interface of market and nonmarket strategies: Political ties and strategic competitive actions	17
Towards a behavioral theory of MNC response to political risk and uncertainty: The role of CEO wealth at risk	17
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	17
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions	17
Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals	17
Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management	17
Financial crisis of 2008 and outward foreign investments from China and India	16
Corporate entrepreneurship, country institutions and firm financial performance	16
Follow the people and the money: Effects of inward FDI on migrant remittances and the contingent role of new firm creation and institutional infrastructure in emerging economies	16
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	16
How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?	15
Environmental innovation in foreign subsidiaries: The role of home-ecological institutions, subsidiary establishment mode and post-establishment experience	15
Entry into new foreign markets: Performance feedback and opportunity costs	15
Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries	14
When value chains go South: Upgrading in the Kenyan leather sector	14
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	13
How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis	13
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	13
Career satisfaction of expatriates in humanitarian inter-governmental organizations	13
Migrants and exports: Decomposing the link	12
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	12
MNEs’ transfer of socially irresponsible practices: A replication with new extensions	12
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward	12
Multinational enterprise parent-subsidiary governance and survival	12
Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance	12
Retrospective and prospective learning: Accelerating the internationalization process	11
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	11
Liability of informality and firm participation in global value chains	11
Exploring the next generation of international entrepreneurship	11
Scaling digital and non-digital business models in foreign markets: The case of financial advice industry in the United States	10
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda	10
Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change	10
Attributional complexity of monoculturals and biculturals: Implications for cross-cultural competence	10
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	10
Managing socio-political risk at the subnational level: Lessons from MNE subsidiaries in Indonesia	10
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	10
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	9
Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry	9
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	9
Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity	9
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	9
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	9
‘If you use the right Arabic…’: Responses to special language standardization within the BBC Arabic Service’s linguascape	9
Temporal boundaries and expatriate staffing: Effects of parent–subsidiary work-time overlap	9
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	9