OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 34. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	173
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	155
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	117
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	97
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	88
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	80
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	76
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	74
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	68
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	59
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	55
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	54
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	53
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	52
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	52
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	48
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	48
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	47
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	46
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	45
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	42
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	40
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	40
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	40
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	40

How much is new in Brouthers et al.’s new foreign entry modes, and do they challenge the transaction cost theory of entry mode choice?	39
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	39
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	38
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	37
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	37
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	36
List of Guest Editors	35
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	34
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	34
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	34