OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 33. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach	191
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	139
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	128
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	124
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	111
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	103
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	89
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	82
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	77
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	68
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	64
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	62
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	61
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	60
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	55
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	52
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	45
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	44
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio	42
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	42
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	38
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	38
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	37
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	37
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	36

The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	36
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?	35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	35
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	35
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	34
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	34
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises	33
List of Guest Editors	33
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	33