OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Multinational Business Review is 4. 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
How psychological perceptions and family dynamics shape necessity- and opportunity-based female entrepreneurship: the role of gender equality	70
To go green or not: the impact of competition intensity and global institutional diversity on multinational enterprises’ investments in dynamic green capabilities	41
Towards green internationalisation: executives environmental protection experience and green outward foreign direct investment decisions	27
Connecting managers’ international work experience, advice networks, and subsidiary-unit performance: a social capital perspective	26
Dark and bright repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic on international business: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	23
Overseas compliance risk prevention for multinational corporations in a law and economics perspective: empirical evidence from Chinese MNCs	11
Does state ownership mitigate political risk in foreign direct investments? Evidence from subsidiary-level data for Norwegian MNEs	10
Knowledge exploration in cross-border acquisitions: how does absorptive capacity matter?	10
Product and business process innovation, competitive advantage and export performance	9
Defining and deterring corporate social irresponsibility: embracing the institutional complexity of international business	9
Multinationals’ value chain configuration for product diversification in emerging markets: Western firms in China	8
Inter-state war, institutions and multinationals: insights from the Russian-Ukraine war	7
Prevalence of the born-global phenomenon in different countries: an integrated perspective	7
Is there a relationship between environmental performance and outward FDI? A study of Chinese MNEs	7
The relational embeddedness in the context of multinational subsidiaries: in search of new avenues	7
Future directions of R&D internationalization in international business	6
Stabilizing or destabilizing: the effect of institutional investors on stock return volatility in an emerging market	6
A bibliometric analysis and future research opportunities in Multinational Business Review	6
How subsidiaries contribute to MNC’s resilience under global disruptions	6
Strategic internationalization decisions and dynamic capability deployment for the internationally growing firm (IGF)	5
Export duration and product innovations: do born globals learn by exporting differently?	5
Home country influence in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms: a systematic review	5
The concept of “spatial knowledge” used by top-management-teams and CEOs in internationalization	4
Global fintech trends and their impact on international business: a review	4
Towards environmental impact of inward foreign direct investment: the moderating role of varieties of democracy	4

Impact of innovation effort on exports from emerging market firms: limitations arising from complementary resource constraints	4
The subsidiary strategising process for a competence-creating role	4