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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	236
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	196
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	105
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	97
Socio-political legitimacy: An integrative and interdisciplinary review and agenda for theory development in unit and programmatic approaches	76
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	74
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	71
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	61
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	54
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	50
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	48
Institutional distance and foreign firms’ live streaming use in the host market	48
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	43
Urban-suburban inventor connectivity and innovation quality: Evidence from intra-metropolitan innovation networks	42
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	42
The impact of corporate board gender composition and national culture on family and nonfamily firms' corporate social performance	41
The New GLOBE Project Integrative Model of Outstanding Leadership: A Springboard for Large-Scale Comparative Research in 134 Societies	40
A hybrid approach to internationalization: An exploratory study of social enterprises	39
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	38
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	36
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	36
Orchestrating boundary spanning for sustainable value: The cross-sector work of multinational enterprises	34
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	33
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	33
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	32

Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	31
Corrigendum to “Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas” [Journal of World Business, Volume 59, Issue 4, June 2024, 101552]	31
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	30
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	29
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	29
Editorial Board	27
Unlocking international entrepreneurial opportunities: The impact of dynamic capabilities on creation and discovery	26
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	25
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	25
Advancing international business research through artificial intelligence and machine learning applications	25
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	25
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	23
The effects of member entry and national diversity on member creative contribution in global virtual teams	23
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	23
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	23
Artificial intelligence and international business: Theoretical challenges, strategic implications, and research agenda	23
Unlearning diversity management	23
The digital transformation of international business: A conceptualization, multidisciplinary review, and research agenda	23
Local air pollution and expatriate deployment	22
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	22
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	20
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	20
Editorial Board	20
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	20
Corporate military activities and key frontiers in international business research	19
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	19
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	19
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	18
Harmonious and obsessive passion as microfoundations of new venture internationalization	18
International business under sanctions	18
Editorial Board	18
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	18
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	17
Editorial Board	17
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	17
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	17
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	16
Editorial Board	16
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	16
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research	16
Editorial Board	16
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	15
The path to SME global performance: Entrepreneurial self-efficacy, perceived institutional support, and international entrepreneurial orientation	15
The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia	15
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	15
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences	15
Editorial Board	15
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	14
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	14
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	14

Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	14
Perspective: Reconciling top-down with bottom-up institutional change: A co-evolutionary perspective for advancing the IB contribution to the SDGs	12
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms	12
How much does host country matter, really?	12
Editorial Board	11
Is it a man’s wor(l)d? The effect of linguistic gender-marking on female entrepreneurship: Micro-Level evidence	11
Editorial Board	11
Improvising digital transformation under exogenous shock: Implications for SME international performance	11
‘Caught in the middle’: Effects on and reactions of Vietnamese timber exporters in the context of US-China economic sanctions	11
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward	11
Exploring Corporate Philanthropy, Home Country Foreign Aid, and Country of Origin-Based Stigma for Multinational Enterprises: An Experimental Study	11
Political ideology and the multinational enterprise: Broadening the epistemological lens	10
How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?	10
Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products	10
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions	10
Learning and innovation of Chinese firms along the paths of “Bring In” to “Go Global”	10
When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business	10
How trade sanctions impact MNE subsidiaries in Russia: Responses to legitimacy concerns and performance	10
The internationalization of digital platform-based firms: A systematic literature review and directions for future research	9
Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter?	9
Editorial Board	9
Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze?	8
Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach	8
Poverty, internationalization, and environmental injustice: A postcolonial theoretical perspective	8
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience	8
Editorial Board	8
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	7
Editorial Board	7
A demand-based view of MNEs’ reverse innovation	7
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	7
Editorial Board	7
Multinational enterprises and greenhouse gas emissions: The dual reality of climate governance mechanisms	7
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	7
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	7
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces	7
Editorial Board	7