OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of International Business Studies is 35. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	184
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	181
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	132
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	103
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	98
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	93
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	79
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	79
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	69
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	65
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	64
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	64
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research	57
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	56
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	54
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	53
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	50
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	50
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	48
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	47
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	47
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	45
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	43
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?	43
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”	43

Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	42
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling	42
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective	42
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	41
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI	41
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions	41
List of Guest Editors	37
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?	36
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform	36
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory	35
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals	35
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations	35