OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Multinational Business Review is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Adaptive learning in cross-sector collaboration during global emergency: conceptual insights in the context of COVID-19 pandemic	36
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research	32
The business responsibility matrix: a diagnostic tool to aid the design of better interventions for achieving the SDGs	32
Natural disasters and MNC sub-national investments in China	26
A systematic review of international franchising	24
A value creation perspective on international business in Latin America: directions for differentiation between emerging market multinationals	20
Political animosity in cross-border acquisitions: EMNCs’ market and nonmarket strategy in a developed market	19
Family firms’ selective learning-by-exporting: product vs process innovation and the role of technological capabilities	18
Global shift towards stakeholder-oriented corporate governance? Evidence from the scholarly literature and future research opportunities	15
Open for business in a closed world? Managing MNE nonmarket strategy in times of populism and geopolitical uncertainty	14
(Re)discovering social identity theory: an agenda for multinational enterprise internalization theory	13
Defining and deterring corporate social irresponsibility: embracing the institutional complexity of international business	13
Does context really matter? The influence of deficient legal services on the intensity of political ties in the regulatory and legal arenas	12
Attitudinal commitment in firms’ de-internationalization processes	11
Does international expansion constrain growth? Business groups, internationalization, institutional distance, and the Penrose effect	11
Surviving the Arab Spring: socially beneficial product portfolios and resilience to political shock	10
Third-country nationals as intercultural boundary spanners in multinational corporations	10
International high-tech SMEs innovative foreign knowledge inflows: effects of host country weak network ties and absorptive capacity	10
Uncertainty avoidance culture, cash holdings and financial crisis	9
The role of market orientation and innovation capability in export performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises: a Latin American perspective	9
Manufacturing location decisions and organizational agility	8
Taking advantage of institutional weakness? Political stability and foreign subsidiary survival in primary industries	8
Internationalisation theory and Born Globals	7
Corporate sustainability reporting in Japanese multinational enterprises: a threat to local legitimacy or an opportunity lost for corporate sustainability practices?	7
International rivalry and global business leadership: an historical perspective	7

Global fintech trends and their impact on international business: a review	6
Chairpersons’ hubris and internationalization: evidence from emerging market’s family business groups	5
Real options flexibility or risk diversification: risk management of US MNEs when facing risk of war	5
Social norms, organizational learning and bribes in emerging economies: a study of foreign invested firms in Vietnam	5
The multi-faceted impact of host country risk on the success of private participation in infrastructure projects	5
The death of distance, revisited: disseminative capacity and knowledge transfer	4
Board independence and firm internationalization: a meta-analysis	4
A bibliometric analysis and future research opportunities in Multinational Business Review	4
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions: links between acquiring firm capabilities and resources and target country location	4
Chinese SMEs in Germany: an exploratory study on OFDI motives and the role of China’s institutional environment	4
Human capital, cultural distance and staffing localization	4
“Of course, cooperation first”: the effect of subsidiary capability and perception gaps for subsidiary development	4
FDI inflows and intellectual property rights for MNEs in emerging markets: an alternative approach through the lens of trademarks in Vietnam (1986-2016)	3
Fair trade coffee and inclusive globalization: a metamorphosis of institutional entrepreneurship	3
Multilingual and multicultural managers’ effects on team performance: insights from professional football teams	3
The role of subsidiary dual embeddedness and absorptive capacity in a transition economy	2
CEO characteristics, multinationality and downside risk: evidence from Chinese multinational corporations	2
CEO polychronicity and SME internationalization	2
A comparative analysis of the internationalization of sub-national and central state-owned enterprises: shreds of evidence from Latin America	2
Productivity gap and expatriate utilization	2
The bridging role of regional headquarters. Multinational companies in the Asia-Pacific region	2
Formal institutions, type of diversification and the diversification – performance relationship: a meta-analysis	2
Export duration and product innovations: do born globals learn by exporting differently?	2
How outward investment from emerging markets affects economic development at home: using the eclectic paradigm to synthesize two IB literatures	2
How learning orientation drives the international performance of INVs: the roles of entrepreneurial bricolage and degree of internationalization	2
Internationalization and firm performance: moderating role of multi-stakeholder initiatives	2
Subsidiaries’ behavioural responses to volatile local contexts in emerging African markets: evidence from Nigeria	2
Multinationality of UK firms – a longitudinal study based on sales and subsidiaries data	2
Revisiting the “matching managers to strategy” argument in the context of a firm’s internationalisation strategy	2
Industry life cycle, geographic diversification and performance of international new ventures	2
Prevalence of the born-global phenomenon in different countries: an integrated perspective	2
Firm performance in the financial industry: the role of foreign entrants and their origin	2
Ways to win: strategic choices, institutions and performance in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Overcoming institutional challenges in cross-border acquisitions: how home- and host-country acquisition experiences shorten the deal completion phase	2