Journal of World Business

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
International entrepreneurship in the post Covid world191
Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise82
Riding the waves of family firm internationalization: A systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda81
Agility and flexibility in international business research: A comprehensive review and future research directions76
Global value chain governance: Intersections with international business74
State ownership and internationalization: The advantage and disadvantage of stateness70
How institutions affect CSR practices in the Middle East and North Africa: A critical review64
Managing internationalization and innovation tradeoffs in entrepreneurial firms: Evidence from transition economies62
Populism, political risk, and pandemics: The challenges of political leadership for business in a post-COVID world62
The development of international e-commerce in retail SMEs: An effectuation perspective60
A capabilities perspective on the joint effects of internationalization time, speed, geographic scope and managers’ competencies on SME survival60
State capitalism in international context: Varieties and variations59
The role of government affiliation in explaining firm innovativeness and profitability in emerging countries: Evidence from China59
The (COVID-19) pandemic and the new world (dis)order56
The nature of innovation in global value chains55
Beyond disciplinary silos: A systematic analysis of the migrant entrepreneurship literature54
Cohesion, COVID-19 and contemporary challenges to globalization49
State ownership, political ideology, and firm performance around the world48
Going subnational: A literature review and research agenda47
Environmental sustainability practices and exports: The interplay of strategy and institutions in Latin America46
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework43
Strategic agility, dynamic relational capability and trust among SMEs in transitional economies43
Uncovering neglected success factors in post-acquisition reverse capability transfer: Evidence from Chinese multinational corporations in Europe39
The role of context in SME internationalization – A review38
Global migrants: Understanding the implications for international business and management38
International social SMEs in emerging countries: Do governments support their international growth?38
Communication and culture in international business – Moving the field forward38
The impact of market based institutional reforms on firm strategy and performance: Review and extension36
Multinationals’ misbehavior36
Social Media Firm Specific Advantages as Enablers of Network Embeddedness of International Entrepreneurial Ventures36
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research36
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms36
International diversification of family-dominant firms: Integrating socioemotional wealth and behavioral theory of the firm35
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals34
Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India34
Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains32
When political instability devaluates home-host ties32
Business groups and internationalization: Effective identification and future agenda32
International orientation of Chinese internet SMEs: Direct and indirect effects of foreign and indigenous social networking site use32
What explains the degree of internationalization of early-stage entrepreneurial firms? A multilevel study on the joint effects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship,31
Institutional logics and social enterprises: Entry mode choices of foreign hospitals in China31
Why is export-oriented entrepreneurship more prevalent in some countries than others? Contextual antecedents and economic consequences31
Mapping the terrain of international human resource management research over the past fifty years: A bibliographic analysis30
Patent enforcement across 51 countries – Patent enforcement index 1998–201730
Multinational enterprises and the governance of sustainability practices in emerging market supply chains: An agile governance perspective30
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis29
Unraveling asset recombination through the lens of firm-specific advantages: A dynamic capabilities perspective29
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity28
Tax Morale and International Tax Evasion28
Parent Firm Corporate Social Responsibility and Overseas Subsidiary Performance: A Signaling Perspective27
How founder characteristics imprint ventures’ internationalization processes: The role of international experience and cognitive beliefs27
The impact of language barriers on knowledge processing in multinational teams26
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation26
International business under sanctions25
Developing compositional capability in emerging-market SMEs24
Cultural diversity in top management teams: Review and agenda for future research24
Theorizing MNE-NGO conflicts in state-capitalist contexts: Insights from the Greenpeace, Gazprom and the Russian state dispute in the Arctic24
Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals23
Institutional quality and inclusive strategies at the base of the pyramid23
“Us versus them”: Sensemaking and identity processes in skilled migrants’ experiences of occupational downgrading23
Global cities: A multi-disciplinary review and research agenda23
Self-categorization as a nonmarket strategy for MNE subsidiaries: Tracking the international expansion of an online platform22
The role of emotions in intercultural business communication: Language standardization in the context of international knowledge transfer22
Reciprocity and informal institutions in international market entry21
The research frontier on internationalization of social enterprises21
Subsidiary autonomy and subsidiary performance: A meta-analysis21
Are voluntary international migrants self-selected for entrepreneurship? An analysis of entrepreneurial personality traits21
Institutional Logics and the Internationalization of a State-Owned Enterprise: Evaluation of International Venture Opportunities by Telecom Finland 1987–199820
The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries20
International springboard as an entrepreneurial act20
International business policy in an age of political turbulence19
Internationalization through foreign listing: A review and future research agenda18
Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status18
The emergence of a communication climate in global virtual teams18
Female executives and multinationals’ support of the UN's sustainable development goals18
Foreign market entry knowledge and international performance: The mediating role of international market selection and network capability18
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context18
On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries17
Hierarchical modelling in international business research: Patterns, problems, and practical guidelines16
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 economies16
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience16
Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs16
National culture and incentives: Are incentive practices always good?16
Effect of generational status on immigrants’ intentions to start new ventures: The role of cognitions16
Unbundling the effects of host-country institutions on foreign subsidiary survival: A case for subsidiary heterogeneity16
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots15
Outward FDI and Innovation Performance of Chinese Firms: Why Can Home-Grown Political Ties Be A Liability?15
Financial crisis of 2008 and outward foreign investments from China and India15
How does the global microfinance industry determine its targeting strategy across cultures with differing gender values?15
Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa15
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations14
Towards a behavioral theory of MNC response to political risk and uncertainty: The role of CEO wealth at risk14
Understanding time in qualitative international business research: Towards four styles of temporal theorizing14
International collaboration and innovation: Evidence from a leading Chinese multinational enterprise14
Introducing the eventful temporality of historical research into international business14
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts14
Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization13
Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda13
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs13
Exporting to escape and learn: Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains13
Entry into new foreign markets: Performance feedback and opportunity costs13
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions13
An FsQCA exploration of multiple paths to ecological innovation adoption in European transportation13
Host country corporate income tax rate and foreign subsidiary survival13
The emotional benefits and performance costs of building a psychologically safe language climate in MNCs12
Export promotion programs: A system-based systematic review and agenda for future research12
Liability of Foreignness and the Constitutive Legitimation of Foreign Firms in a Host Country12
When value chains go South: Upgrading in the Kenyan leather sector12
Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries12
Corporate entrepreneurship, country institutions and firm financial performance11
Safety risk and international investment decisions11
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit11
Career satisfaction of expatriates in humanitarian inter-governmental organizations11
Retrospective and prospective learning: Accelerating the internationalization process10
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review10
How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis10
Multiple interpretations of “national culture” and the implications for International business: The case of Taiwan10
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions, technological gaps, and innovation performance of Chinese multinationals10
Migrants and exports: Decomposing the link10
Performance feedback on sales growth goal and OFDI location choices for firms in emerging economies10
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research10
Strategic agility in international business9
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda9
Environmental innovation in foreign subsidiaries: The role of home-ecological institutions, subsidiary establishment mode and post-establishment experience9
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development9
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda9
The interface of market and nonmarket strategies: Political ties and strategic competitive actions9
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