OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Business Review is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Does technology innovation in finance alleviate financing constraints and reduce debt-financing costs? Evidence from China	38
An empirical investigation on how big data analytics influence China SMEs performance: do product and process innovation matter?	37
Confucian business model canvas in the Asia Pacific: a Yin-Yang harmony cognition to value creation and innovation	37
Innovation implementation in Asia-Pacific countries: a review and research agenda	34
Responsible tourism towards sustainable development: literature review and research agenda	31
The impact of authentic leadership on employee creativity in Vietnam: a mediating effect of psychological contract and moderating effects of subcultures	26
The role of Zhong-Yong thinking in business and management research: a review and future research agenda	22
Influencing mechanism of strategic flexibility on corporate performance: the mediating role of business model innovation	18
Employee voice mechanisms, transformational leadership, group prototypicality, and voice behaviour: a comparison of portfolio career workers in Japan, Korea and China	18
Innovation efficiency: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	15
‘It’s not like we can charge for everything’: revenue models to capture value from smart services in Pacific Asia	14
How informational-based readiness and social influence affect usage intentions of self-service stores through different routes: an elaboration likelihood model perspective	14
How do managerial ties influence the effectuation and causation of entrepreneurship in China? The role of entrepreneurs’ cognitive bias	14
Exploring the role of institutions in Chinese OFDI: a systematic review and integrative framework	13
Business models in the Asia-Pacific: dynamic balancing of multiple cultures, innovation and value creation	13
How business model innovation overcomes barriers during manufacturers’ servitization transformation: a case study of two top piano manufacturers in China	12
Dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial performance of Chinese start-ups: the mediating roles of managerial attitude towards risk and entrepreneurial behaviour	10
Empowering entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy: comparison of farmers with and without entrepreneurial experience in Taiwan	10
Internal marketing: a review and future research agenda	9
Prospects for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): implications, assessment and challenges	9
Exploring an inverted U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurial experience and Chinese new venture performance: the moderating role of environmental uncertainty	9
Leveraging resources to achieve high competitive advantage for digital new ventures: an empirical study in China	8
Product modularity and performance in the global auto industry in China: the mediating roles of supply chain integration and firm relative positional advantage	8
The role of leadership in human resource management: perspectives and evidence from Asia Pacific	8
The effect of innovation and leadership on performance in China and Vietnam	8

The effects of formal and informal CEO power on firm risk in China: the mediating role of corporate social responsibility	8
The impact of the talent management mechanism and self-perceived talent status on work engagement: the case of Japan	7
The enigma of Chinese business: understanding corporate performance through managerial ties	7
Introduction: the role and relevance of literature reviews and research in the Asia Pacific	7
Rising and thriving in the post COVID-19 era: a case study of COSMAX, a leader of the Korean cosmetic industry	6
The key elements of strategic leadership capabilities to the latecomer firm: the case of RT Mart’s success in the Chinese retail industry	6
A meta-analysis of top management team compositional characteristics and corporate innovation in China	6
The end of rent sharing: corporate governance reforms in South Korea	6
User-driven business model innovation: an ethnographic inquiry into Toutiao in the Chinese context	6
Gendered melancholia as cultural branding: fandom participation in the K-pop community	6
The mediating role of harmony in effective leadership in China: from a Confucianism perspective	5
When does environmental corporate social responsibility promote managerial ties in China? The moderating role of industrial power and market hierarchy	5
How configuration theory explains performance growth and decline after Chinese firms cross-border M&A: using the fsQCA approach	5
Exploitative leadership and employee innovative behaviour in China: a moderated mediation framework	5
The moderating role of R&D intensity on the association between external embeddedness and subsidiary product innovation: evidence from Vietnam	5
Exploring big data use to predict supply chain effectiveness in Chinese organizations: a moderated mediated model link	5
High-performance work systems in mainland China: a review and research agenda	5
A new global division of labour in venture capital flows: Coupang’s IPO success at the New York Stock Exchange	5
How does customer psychological empowerment affect value co-creation? An empirical study of travel agencies in Mainland China	5
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: challenges, doubts and legal implications	4
Mediation of work engagement towards productive behaviour in remote work environments during pandemic: testing the job demands and resources model in Japan	4
Motivations for bribery and bribery in business: Vietnam past and present	4
Below-aspiration performance and risk-taking behaviour in the context of Taiwanese electronic firms: a contingency analysis	4
Leadership, performance and socialist reforms: how did reform leadership emerge and create change?	4
Changing patterns of the teacher as a servant leader in Asia Pacific: a review and research agenda	4
Motives behind Sino-Japanese strategic alliances in the new energy vehicles sector in the age of the Belt and Road Initiative	4
Does cooperative goal interdependence facilitate market orientation? A top management’s firm–customer perspective in China	4
Motivation and hindrance: the mixed blessing of paradoxical leader behaviour for workplace creativity in China	4
Do the MNE’s global RD intensity and diversity boost its beneficial subsidiary reverse technology transfer? And how? In contingency with institutional distance	4
Overcoming the liability of foreignness in US capital markets: the case of Alibaba and Coupang	4
Comparing perceptions of leadership, innovation and performance in Asian SMEs	4
How do organizations deal with crisis? A case study on improvisational behaviours of Chinese companies during the COVID-19 epidemic	4
Empirical research on how social capital influence inter-organizational information systems value co-creation in China	4
Top management support, green training and organization’s environmental performance: the electric power sector in Vietnam	4
Big data, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Asia Pacific: examples and international comparisons	3
Sustainability in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: operating mechanisms and enterprise growth	3
Employee perceptions of pay equity and compensation factors: a study of Vietnamese state-owned enterprises	3
Power distance orientation and perceived insider status in China: a social identity perspective	3
Attitude formation towards green products evidence in Indonesia: integrating environment, culture, and religion	3
Executive remuneration and firm financial performance: lessons from listed companies in Australia and implications for their APEC counterparts	3
Fostering innovation and involvement among Korean workers in problem solving through trust and psychological safety: the role of paradoxical leader behaviours	3
The business model and innovation mix in the transition of contract manufacturers in the greater China region	3
Influence of information technology and marketing capabilities in achieving superior customer performance: evidence from Taiwan	3
Towards a new corporate responsibility and governance? Tax haven and other identity characteristics of Asia-Pacific multinational corporations	3
Is there a gap between saying and doing in CSR? Cases from Asian firms	3
Belt and Road: a Chinese world order	3
The rise of China and contestation in global tax governance	3
K-pop music diffusion in Korea and East Asia: the convergence of visual technology and concrete narratives	3
The impact of contextual distance on the investment locations of Chinese multinationals in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative	3
How does firm ownership concentration and female directors influence tax haven foreign direct investment? Evidence from Asia-Pacific and OECD countries	3

Which executive characteristics influence risk-taking behaviours: evidence from Taiwanese companies	3
Exploring the effects of unethical pro-organizational behaviour on innovation strategy: an examination based on firm survey in China	3
Evolution path and critical influencing factors of performance management system: a longitudinal case study in China	3
SMEs’ changing perspective on international trade credit risk management in China: a cultural values evolution approach	3
Workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: insights from strategic human resource management in Mainland China	3
Entrepreneurs’ self-perceived social status and firms’ philanthropy: evidence from Chinese private firms	3
The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan	3
Strategic orientation, innovation, and the effects of entrepreneurial support mechanism in SMEs in South Korea: an application of subject-mechanism-performance congruence model	3