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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	186
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	111
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	104
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	102
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	92
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	84
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	82
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	79
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	69
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	67
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	65
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	64
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	64
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	63
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	58
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	46
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	42
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	40
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	40
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	40
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	35
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	34
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	34
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	33
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	31

Editorial Board	31
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	31
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	30
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	30
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	30
Addressing psychic distance and learning in international buyer-seller relationships: The role of firm exploration and asset specificity	30
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	30
Unlearning diversity management	28
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	28
Editorial Board	27
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	27
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	27
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	27
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	27
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	27
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	27
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	25
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	24
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	24
International business under sanctions	24
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	24
Hierarchical modelling in international business research: Patterns, problems, and practical guidelines	24
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	23
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	23
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	23
Relieving status anxiety: How low-status firms respond to international status-heterophilous relationships	23
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	22
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences	21
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	21
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	21
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	20
Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity	20
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	20
Editorial Board	19
On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries	19
Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa	18
How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis	18
Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration: the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust	17
The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia	17
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research	17
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	17
Editorial Board	17
Multinationals’ misbehavior	16
Boundary-spanning coordination: Insights into lateral collaboration and lateral alignment in multinational enterprises	16
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	16
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	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

The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	16
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda	15
How much does host country matter, really?	15
The nature of innovation in global value chains	14
Towards a behavioral theory of MNC response to political risk and uncertainty: The role of CEO wealth at risk	14
Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs	14
When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products	13
Lateral collaboration and boundary-spanning from a global leadership perspective: The case of global account managers	13
Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda	13
‘Caught in the middle’: Effects on and reactions of Vietnamese timber exporters in the context of US-China economic sanctions	13
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward	13
Exploring Corporate Philanthropy, Home Country Foreign Aid, and Country of Origin-Based Stigma for Multinational Enterprises: An Experimental Study	13
Learning and innovation of Chinese firms along the paths of “Bring In” to “Go Global”	12
Career satisfaction of expatriates in humanitarian inter-governmental organizations	12
How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?	12
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts	12
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions	12
Multinational enterprise parent-subsidiary governance and survival	12
Editorial Board	11
Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter?	11
Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach	11
Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze?	11
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	10
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	10
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	10
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals	10
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	10
Liability of informality and firm participation in global value chains	9
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes	9
The hows and whys of foreign operation mode combinations: The role of knowledge processes	9
From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams	9
Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status	9
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces	9
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots	9
Editorial Board	9
Actor legitimation in emerging markets: A network-embedded process	9