Journal of International Business Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of International Business Studies is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises222
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example175
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth115
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice95
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda89
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries76
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight75
High-investment human resource practices and firm performance in the context of national education systems and labor markets: A cross-national meta-analysis74
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology68
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals66
Hypothesis-testing research in international business: progress, pitfalls, and a way forward65
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?63
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility62
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US59
Method-driven theory advancements and AI implementation59
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures58
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms55
CEO-to-employee pay ratios, societal-level income inequality, and citizens’ subjective well-being54
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies54
Rethinking international business scholarship as cross-language knowledge production: a dialogical approach to qualitative research54
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research53
Techno-nationalism’s paradox in international standard setting53
See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling52
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?50
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics49
A Coasean approach to strategies of ownership and control: A commentary on Forsgren and Holm’s (2021) “Controlling without owning – owning without controlling”45
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals43
Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions42
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa42
A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI42
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research40
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China39
The timing and mode of foreign exit from conflict zones: A behavioral perspective38
List of Guest Editors37
Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations36
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory35
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions34
Corruption experience and foreign investments: clean hands or dirty hands learning?34
Prosocial motivation and lending to the poor: evidence from an international crowdfunding platform33
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry32
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs32
How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals32
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention32
The politicized nature of international business31
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations31
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment30
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation30
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond30
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief30
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire30
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations30
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance30
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains29
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research29
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers28
List of Guest Editors28
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni28
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights28
Business lobbying in the European Union28
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry27
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory27
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience27
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance27
Multihoming: an internationalization strategy in a world of artificial intelligence ecosystems27
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research27
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research26
Machine learning in international business26
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business26
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country26
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance25
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value25
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research25
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild25
Once sued, twice shy: international litigation, trust radius, and international expansion25
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda24
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal24
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research24
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research24
Multinationals’ solutions to Grand Challenges24
International involvement of managed ecosystems: a quasi-experiment of foreign user traffic to e-commerce platforms amid geopolitical conflicts24
Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition23
Inward foreign direct investment and technological innovation of local firms: differential impacts on incremental and radical innovation23
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums23
Institutional investors, tax havens, and multinational subsidiaries23
The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry22
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes21
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets20
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence20
Publisher Correction: Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies20
Family firms and the governance of global value chains19
A multilevel model of expatriate staffing and subsidiary financial performance: An expanded fit perspective19
Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce18
Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship18
Registration at founding and firm performance: Generalization and extension replication from global data17
Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research17
Guilty as charged? Reassessing the problem of single-country samples in cultural distance studies17
Developing theoretically informed typologies in international business: Why we need them, and how to do it17
Veto rights in international joint ventures16
What makes an internationalizing firm entrepreneurial?16
MNE–civil society interactions: a systematic review and research agenda16
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field16
Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business16
The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity16
Beyond global mobility: how human capital shapes the MNE in the 21st century16
International business is contributing to environmental crises16
The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda16
The convention on tax mutual administrative assistance and divestment: Evidence from China15
Research on temporal diversity in GVTs: limitations and a new research agenda15
Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries15
Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory14
A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business14
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness14
Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach14
Upward convergence: digital regulations and digital firms’ internationalization14
Parenthood wage gaps in multinational enterprises14
And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE13
The global sourcing of green products13
The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy13
Local roots, global reach? A framework for managing place-based identity in new cultural industries13
Global investors, hidden suppliers: how institutions shape the impact of stock market liberalization programs on corporate responsibility13
Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control13
Tax avoidance and ESG disclosure mandates: international evidence12
Multinational enterprises and climate action: a low-income perspective with Africa focus12
The value of publishing in JIBS12
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors11
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises11
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation11
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets11
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry11
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries11
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business11
The performance of active investment positions in foreign markets10
Income inequality, social cohesion, and crime against businesses: Evidence from a global sample of firms10
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists10
Artificial states, ethnicity, and the survival of private participation infrastructure projects in Africa10
Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business10
Going global? CEO political ideology and the choice between international alliances and international acquisitions10
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities10
International business research: The real challenges are data and theory10
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business10
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions10
Do political systems affect economic outcomes? The geography of inward FDI and its relationships with growth and inequality10
Digital dampening and internationalization of digital firms9
International business and decentralized finance9
The political economy and dynamics of bifurcated world governance and the decoupling of value chains: An alternative perspective9
My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities9
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa9
Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises9
Indigenous peoples’ reactions to foreign direct investment: a social movement perspective9
Reflections on the 2024 JIBS Decade Award: “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise”8
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power8
The effects of import competition on domestic financial markets: The role of limits-to-arbitrage8
Handbook for qualitative research in emerging markets: methods and applications8
The nature and utility of cultural tightness–looseness: evidence for reconsideration8
Colocation as network: Types and performance implications of structural positions in colocation network8
The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?8
Globalization and stock price crash risk: evidence from the US granting permanent normal trade relations to China8
The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs8
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers8
The multinational enterprise, capabilities, and digitalization: governance and growth with world disorder8
Decoupling in international business: The ‘new’ vulnerability of globalization and MNEs’ response strategies7
Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs7
Home country’s economic and political institutions: firms’ ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions7
Correction: Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight7
International business research that moves Africa7
Digital transformation and the offshore outsourcing behavior of manufacturing MNEs7
Resilience duality in global turbulence: immunity and growth6
Revisiting the liability of foreignness: political ideology, globalization, and discrimination6
Global Taiwanese: Asian skilled labour markets in a changing world6
Spatial and temporal distances in a virtual global world: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic6
When does historical context matter? Explaining the emergence of competence-creating subsidiaries6
Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention6
Venture capital funding in Africa: a mixed-methods study of evolving ecosystems and financial discrimination6
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