Journal of International Business Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of International Business Studies is 5. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach149
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight133
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example117
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises107
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility86
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries84
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice75
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda63
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?63
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals63
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth60
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology58
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research48
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality46
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures44
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies43
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures39
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US39
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms38
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio37
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research37
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability36
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”36
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics36
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research36
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling35
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China35
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective34
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI34
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa34
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?33
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions32
Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises32
List of Guest Editors32
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals31
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry31
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?31
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform31
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations30
Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view30
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment30
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad29
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief29
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains28
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention28
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies27
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights27
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation27
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance27
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations27
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond26
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs25
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research24
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire23
The politicized nature of international business23
List of Guest Editors22
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations22
Business lobbying in the European Union21
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni21
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry21
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory21
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance21
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research20
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business20
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country19
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance19
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research19
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires19
Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research19
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy19
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research19
Machine learning in international business19
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience19
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value18
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research18
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks18
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension17
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild17
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal17
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research16
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets16
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research16
List of Guest Editors16
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes16
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies16
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence16
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective16
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda16
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment16
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry16
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums16
Kicking back against kickbacks: An examination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US foreign investment15
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce15
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective15
Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing15
Family firms and the governance of global value chains15
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship14
Registration at founding and firm performance: Generalization and extension replication from global data14
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field14
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity14
International business is contributing to environmental crises14
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda14
Veto rights in international joint ventures14
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda14
Developing theoretically informed typologies in international business: Why we need them, and how to do it13
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises13
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business13
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda13
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China13
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries13
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century13
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE13
How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms?12
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness12
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach12
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy11
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business11
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control11
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory11
From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary10
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors10
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions10
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus10
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation9
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets9
The value of publishing in JIBS9
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 529
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry9
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises9
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries9
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions8
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions8
Why the world economy needs, but will not get, more globalization in the post-COVID-19 decade8
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities8
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms8
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists8
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business8
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions8
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business8
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business8
Positive institutional changes through peace: The relative effects of peace agreements and non-market capabilities on FDI7
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa7
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets7
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business7
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework7
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises7
Revisiting emerging market multinational enterprise views: The Goldilocks story restated6
Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries6
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power6
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China6
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory6
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective6
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”6
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities6
International business and decentralized finance6
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective6
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs6
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa5
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight5
International business research that moves Africa5
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies5
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world5
The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions5
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions5
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network5
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers5
Replication studies in international business5
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs5
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises5
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic5
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder5
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage5
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?5
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention5
The local roots of global entrepreneurship: Insights from Stephen Young5
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries5
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