OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World Business is 7. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The interface of market and nonmarket strategies: Political ties and strategic competitive actions	136
Editorial Board	102
Editorial Board	94
Editorial Board	86
Unlearning diversity management	80
The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia	76
Editorial Board	76
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	72
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	69
Multinational enterprises and the governance of sustainability practices in emerging market supply chains: An agile governance perspective	68
Context matters: The signaling role of foreign bidders’ reputation in cross-border acquisition contests	67
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	58
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	58
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	58
Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management	53
Global cities: A multi-disciplinary review and research agenda	52
The distinct contribution of investment promotion agencies’ branch offices in bringing Chinese multinationals to Europe	52
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	51
Managing socio-political risk at the subnational level: Lessons from MNE subsidiaries in Indonesia	50
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	49
The impact of cultural identity on cultural and language bridging skills of first and second generation highly qualified migrants	46
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	45
Why is export-oriented entrepreneurship more prevalent in some countries than others? Contextual antecedents and economic consequences	44
Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries	44
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	41

International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	40
Beyond disciplinary silos: A systematic analysis of the migrant entrepreneurship literature	40
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals	36
Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change	36
Unraveling asset recombination through the lens of firm-specific advantages: A dynamic capabilities perspective	34
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	33
An integrative approach to international inbound sources of firm-level innovation	32
‘How do firms reach out to foreign universities? Inventors’ personal characteristics and the multinational structure of firms’	32
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	31
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	28
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	28
Editorial Board	28
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	28
Multinationals’ misbehavior	25
Temporal boundaries and expatriate staffing: Effects of parent–subsidiary work-time overlap	25
Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance	24
The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries	23
Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms	23
Foreign buyout of international equity joint ventures in China: When does performance improve?	23
The (COVID-19) pandemic and the new world (dis)order	23
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	22
What happens abroad, stays abroad? Exploring how corporate social irresponsibility in domestic and international markets influences corporate reputation	22
Knowledge acquisition from host-country partners: The interplay of trust and legal safeguards	22
Exploring the next generation of international entrepreneurship	21
Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry	21
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	21
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	20
Practice creation in multinational corporations: Improvisation and the emergence of lateral knowledge	20
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	20
Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India	20
Boundary-spanning coordination: Insights into lateral collaboration and lateral alignment in multinational enterprises	20
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	19
MNE market entry and social investment in battle-weary countries: Evidence from Heineken	19
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces	19
The impact of language barriers on knowledge processing in multinational teams	19
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	19
Cultural diversity in top management teams: Review and agenda for future research	19
Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise	18
Unbundling the effects of host-country institutions on foreign subsidiary survival: A case for subsidiary heterogeneity	18
Advantages of foreignness and accelerator selection: A study of foreign-born entrepreneurs	18
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	18
Performance feedback on sales growth goal and OFDI location choices for firms in emerging economies	17
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	17
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions, technological gaps, and innovation performance of Chinese multinationals	17
From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams	17
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	17
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes	17
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	17
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	17

Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance	16
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda	16
Editorial Board	16
International business policy in an age of political turbulence	16
From cultural intelligence to workgroup inclusion through synchrony preference and perceived workgroup similarity	15
Scaling digital and non-digital business models in foreign markets: The case of financial advice industry in the United States	15
Returnee managers as an asset for emerging market multinational enterprises: Chinese cross-border acquisitions (2008–2017)	15
The nature of innovation in global value chains	14
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	14
To export or to FDI? A configurational approach to family firm internationalization	13
The hows and whys of foreign operation mode combinations: The role of knowledge processes	13
‘If you use the right Arabic…’: Responses to special language standardization within the BBC Arabic Service’s linguascape	13
The role of context in SME internationalization – A review	13
International collaboration and innovation: Evidence from a leading Chinese multinational enterprise	12
The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts	12
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	12
Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs	12
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	12
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	12
How much does host country matter, really?	11
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots	11
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	11
Cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market MNEs revisited: Inductive evidence from a machine learning analysis	11
Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status	10
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	10
Actor legitimation in emerging markets: A network-embedded process	10
Female executives and multinationals’ support of the UN's sustainable development goals	10
Host country corporate income tax rate and foreign subsidiary survival	10
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	10
Regional resilience during a trade war: The role of global connections and local networks	10
International business under sanctions	9
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms	9
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	9
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	9
Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward	9
Lateral collaboration and boundary-spanning from a global leadership perspective: The case of global account managers	9
Headhunter-assisted recruiting practices in foreign subsidiaries and their (dys)functional effects: An institutional work perspective	9
Liability of informality and firm participation in global value chains	9
Legal distance and entrepreneurial orientation of foreign subsidiaries: Evidence from Southeast Asia	9
“Generation Me”: An intra-nationally bounded generational explanation for convergence and divergence in personal vs. social focus cultural value orientations	8
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts	8
Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals	8
Entry into new foreign markets: Performance feedback and opportunity costs	8
Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda	8
To go or not to go? Opportunities as triggers of commitment to internationalisation	8
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	8
Editorial Board	7
Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals	7
Reducing freeloading in Global Virtual Teams: A quasi-experimental approach	7
An FsQCA exploration of multiple paths to ecological innovation adoption in European transportation	7
When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business	7
State ownership and Chinese private firms’ OFDI in developed economies	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	7
Editorial Board	7