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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Does technology innovation in finance alleviate financing constraints and reduce debt-financing costs? Evidence from China	53
Innovation implementation in Asia-Pacific countries: a review and research agenda	39
Responsible tourism towards sustainable development: literature review and research agenda	38
The impact of authentic leadership on employee creativity in Vietnam: a mediating effect of psychological contract and moderating effects of subcultures	32
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	21
Employee voice mechanisms, transformational leadership, group prototypicality, and voice behaviour: a comparison of portfolio career workers in Japan, Korea and China	19
‘It’s not like we can charge for everything’: revenue models to capture value from smart services in Pacific Asia	18
Exploring the role of institutions in Chinese OFDI: a systematic review and integrative framework	16
How business model innovation overcomes barriers during manufacturers’ servitization transformation: a case study of two top piano manufacturers in China	15
Innovation efficiency: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	15
How informational-based readiness and social influence affect usage intentions of self-service stores through different routes: an elaboration likelihood model perspective	14
Business models in the Asia-Pacific: dynamic balancing of multiple cultures, innovation and value creation	14
The effect of innovation and leadership on performance in China and Vietnam	12
Dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial performance of Chinese start-ups: the mediating roles of managerial attitude towards risk and entrepreneurial behaviour	12
Internal marketing: a review and future research agenda	12
Leveraging resources to achieve high competitive advantage for digital new ventures: an empirical study in China	12
The effects of formal and informal CEO power on firm risk in China: the mediating role of corporate social responsibility	11
Exploring an inverted U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurial experience and Chinese new venture performance: the moderating role of environmental uncertainty	11
Introduction: the role and relevance of literature reviews and research in the Asia Pacific	11
Empowering entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy: comparison of farmers with and without entrepreneurial experience in Taiwan	11
User-driven business model innovation: an ethnographic inquiry into Toutiao in the Chinese context	10
Rising and thriving in the post COVID-19 era: a case study of COSMAX, a leader of the Korean cosmetic industry	9
The key elements of strategic leadership capabilities to the latecomer firm: the case of RT Mart’s success in the Chinese retail industry	9
The impact of the talent management mechanism and self-perceived talent status on work engagement: the case of Japan	9

The enigma of Chinese business: understanding corporate performance through managerial ties	8
Mediation of work engagement towards productive behaviour in remote work environments during pandemic: testing the job demands and resources model in Japan	8
Attitude formation towards green products evidence in Indonesia: integrating environment, culture, and religion	8
Prospects for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): implications, assessment and challenges	8
Exploring big data use to predict supply chain effectiveness in Chinese organizations: a moderated mediated model link	8
How does customer psychological empowerment affect value co-creation? An empirical study of travel agencies in Mainland China	7
A meta-analysis of top management team compositional characteristics and corporate innovation in China	7
The mediating role of harmony in effective leadership in China: from a Confucianism perspective	7
Exploitative leadership and employee innovative behaviour in China: a moderated mediation framework	7
The impact of flexibility-oriented HRM systems on innovative behaviour in China: a moderated mediation model of dualistic passion and inclusive leadership	6
How does firm ownership concentration and female directors influence tax haven foreign direct investment? Evidence from Asia-Pacific and OECD countries	6
How do organizations deal with crisis? A case study on improvisational behaviours of Chinese companies during the COVID-19 epidemic	6
Power distance orientation and perceived insider status in China: a social identity perspective	6
Strategic orientation for Chinese firms in the digital economy: a business model process formalization perspective	6
Motives behind Sino-Japanese strategic alliances in the new energy vehicles sector in the age of the Belt and Road Initiative	6
Motivation and hindrance: the mixed blessing of paradoxical leader behaviour for workplace creativity in China	6
Gendered melancholia as cultural branding: fandom participation in the K-pop community	6
Fostering innovation and involvement among Korean workers in problem solving through trust and psychological safety: the role of paradoxical leader behaviours	6
The role of leadership in human resource management: perspectives and evidence from China	6
The end of rent sharing: corporate governance reforms in South Korea	6
The moderating role of R&D intensity on the association between external embeddedness and subsidiary product innovation: evidence from Vietnam	5
A study on artificial intelligence orientation and new venture performance	5
Top management support, green training and organization’s environmental performance: the electric power sector in Vietnam	5
Effects of high-performance work system on team ambidexterity in China: a dual path model based on emergence perspective	5
Leadership, performance and socialist reforms: how did reform leadership emerge and create change?	5
How configuration theory explains performance growth and decline after Chinese firms cross-border M&A: using the fsQCA approach	5
A new global division of labour in venture capital flows: Coupang’s IPO success at the New York Stock Exchange	5
Workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: insights from strategic human resource management in Mainland China	5
Entrepreneurs’ self-perceived social status and firms’ philanthropy: evidence from Chinese private firms	5
Comparing perceptions of leadership, innovation and performance in Asian SMEs	4
Generation Z job seekers in Vietnam: CSR-based employer attractiveness and job pursuit intention	4
Changing patterns of the teacher as a servant leader in Asia Pacific: a review and research agenda	4
The ‘new trinity’ reform of labour markets in Japan	4
Towards a new corporate responsibility and governance? Tax haven and other identity characteristics of Asia-Pacific multinational corporations	4
Below-aspiration performance and risk-taking behaviour in the context of Taiwanese electronic firms: a contingency analysis	4
Empirical research on how social capital influence inter-organizational information systems value co-creation in China	4
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: challenges, doubts and legal implications	4
Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future	4
Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions	4
Innovation-oriented HRM, TMT reflexivity and organizational change in China: the moderated mediation effect of CEO leader mindfulness	4
Overcoming the liability of foreignness in US capital markets: the case of Alibaba and Coupang	4
K-pop music diffusion in Korea and East Asia: the convergence of visual technology and concrete narratives	4
The business model and innovation mix in the transition of contract manufacturers in the greater China region	4
Much to be done in Japan’s family and gender equality policies	4
Employee perceptions of pay equity and compensation factors: a study of Vietnamese state-owned enterprises	3
Does brain gain enhance firm value? Evidence from China	3
Do grateful employees take charge more in China? A joint moderating effect model	3
The impact of contextual distance on the investment locations of Chinese multinationals in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative	3
The influence of the fit between strategic human resource management and CEO strategic leadership behaviours on organizational effectiveness in China	3
Universal task and two faces of relationship orientation: a novel scale to measure organizational culture in Vietnam	3

Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people	3
Influence of information technology and marketing capabilities in achieving superior customer performance: evidence from Taiwan	3
Executive remuneration and firm financial performance: lessons from listed companies in Australia and implications for their APEC counterparts	3
Which executive characteristics influence risk-taking behaviours: evidence from Taiwanese companies	3
Digital economy, enterprise digital transformation, and digital business model: evidence from China The digitization of business in China: exploring the transformation from manufacturin	3
Is there a gap between saying and doing in CSR? Cases from Asian firms	3
Leading digital business model transformation in the K-pop industry: the case of SM Entertainment	3
‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanization	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
Belt and Road: a Chinese world order	3
Sustainability in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: operating mechanisms and enterprise growth	3
Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes	3
Antecedents and consequences of organizational resilience in Taiwan’s accommodation sector	3
The rise of China and contestation in global tax governance	3
The transformation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Japan	3
How do live-stream channels shape impulse buying behaviour? Empirical research on Vietnamese youth	3
Evolution path and critical influencing factors of performance management system: a longitudinal case study in China	3
Impact of influencers’ influencing strategy on follower outcomes: evidence from China	3
SMEs’ changing perspective on international trade credit risk management in China: a cultural values evolution approach	3
Japan’s triple sustainability challenge	3
Leveraging organizational tenure to improve service performance: the role of relational coordination among frontline service workers in China	3
Leadership mindsets, cultural norms and organizational resilience in China: the moderating effect of supportive human resource practices	3
The impacts of transformational leadership on emotional labour in Taiwanese private nonprofit long-term care institutions: the mediating role of psychological contract	3