OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Business Studies is 17. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
International HRM insights for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for future research and practice	378
Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business	118
Navigating cross-border institutional complexity: A review and assessment of multinational nonmarket strategy research	110
Dealing with dynamic endogeneity in international business research	94
Why the world economy needs, but will not get, more globalization in the post-COVID-19 decade	88
Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future	83
The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade	82
Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research	81
Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: Why future IB research needs more triangulation	81
Reconciling theory and context: How the case study can set a new agenda for international business research	75
International connectedness and local disconnectedness: MNE strategy, city-regions and disruption	75
The influence of expatriate cultural intelligence on organizational embeddedness and knowledge sharing: The moderating effects of host country context	72
State governance and technological innovation in emerging economies: State-owned enterprise restructuration and institutional logic dissonance in China’s high-speed train sector	69
The anatomy of an award-winning meta-analysis: Recommendations for authors, reviewers, and readers of meta-analytic reviews	69
Research methods in international business: The challenge of complexity	66
Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A retrospective of research on multicultural work groups and an agenda for future research	63
Back to basics: Behavioral theory and internationalization	59
A general framework of digitization risks in international business	55
Global scaling as a logic of multinationalization	55
Methodological practices in international business research: An after-action review of challenges and solutions	54
The theory and empirics of the structural reshaping of globalization	51
Illusions of techno-nationalism	51
Foreign subsidiary CSR as a buffer against parent firm reputation risk	50
Impact of informal institutions on the prevalence, strategy, and performance of family firms: A meta-analysis	49
Institutional investment horizons and firm valuation around the world	49

Divestment response to host-country terrorist attacks: Inter-firm influence and the role of temporal consistency	46
Best of both worlds: How embeddedness fit in the host unit and the headquarters improve repatriate knowledge transfer	44
What’s so special about born globals, their entrepreneurs or their business model?	42
Are firms with foreign CEOs better citizens? A study of the impact of CEO foreignness on corporate social performance	42
Foreign direct investment along the Belt and Road: A political economy perspective	41
Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business	41
Robots do not get the coronavirus: The COVID-19 pandemic and the international division of labor	39
Partnering with Leviathan: The politics of innovation in foreign-host-state joint ventures	39
The role of global dynamic managerial capability in the pursuit of international strategy and superior performance	38
Multinational energy utilities in the energy transition: A configurational study of the drivers of FDI in renewables	37
Platform-based mobile payments adoption in emerging and developed countries: Role of country-level heterogeneity and network effects	37
Toward a loose coupling view of digital globalization	37
E-platform use and exporting in the context of Alibaba: A signaling theory perspective	35
The role of business models in firm internationalization: An exploration of European electricity firms in the context of the energy transition	35
Sharing economy: International marketing strategies	35
A review of research on the growth of multinational enterprises: A Penrosean lens	33
The rise of techno-geopolitical uncertainty: Implications of the United States CHIPS and Science Act	33
Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research	32
Multinationality, portfolio diversification, and asymmetric MNE performance: The moderating role of real options awareness	32
Long-term energy transitions and international business: Concepts, theory, methods, and a research agenda	32
Charting new courses to enter foreign markets: Conceptualization, theoretical framework, and research directions on non-traditional entry modes	31
Blending talents for innovation: Team composition for cross-border R&D collaboration within multinational corporations	30
The effect of international takeover laws on corporate resource adjustments: Market discipline and/or managerial myopia?	30
A cross-cultural exploratory analysis of pandemic growth: The case of COVID-19	28
Control changes in multinational corporations: Adjusting control approaches in practice	28
The dark side of globalization: Evidence from the impact of COVID-19 on multinational companies	27
Foreignness research in international business: Major streams and future directions	27
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	27
Does social trust affect international contracting? Evidence from foreign bond covenants	27
Springboard MNEs under de-globalization	26
Internationalization of the firm: A discourse-based view	26
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research	26
Informal institutions, entrepreneurs’ political participation, and venture internationalization	25
No place like home: The effect of exporting to the country of origin on the financial performance of immigrant-owned SMEs	24
Speed and synchronization in foreign market network entry: A note on the revisited Uppsala model	24
International evidence on state ownership and trade credit: Opportunities and motivations	24
The local co-evolution of firms and governments in the Information Age	24
MNE responses to carbon pricing regulations: Theory and evidence	23
Foreign investor reactions to risk and uncertainty in antitrust: U.S. merger policy investigations and the deterrence of foreign acquirer presence	22
Putting qualitative international business research in context(s)	22
The long-term energy transition: Drivers, outcomes, and the role of the multinational enterprise	22
National culture and international business: A path forward	22
Public sentiment is everything: Host-country public sentiment toward home country and acquisition ownership during institutional transition	21
Sister cities, cross-national FDI, and the subnational FDI location decision	21
Regional and global strategies of MNEs: Revisiting Rugman & Verbeke (2004)	21
Leviathan as foreign investor: Geopolitics and sovereign wealth funds	21
To make JIBS matter for a better world	20
Business groups and the study of international business: A Coasean synthesis and extension	20
Protecting intellectual property in foreign subsidiaries: An internal network defense perspective	20
Replication studies in international business	20

Government procurement and financial statement certification: Evidence from private firms in emerging economies	19
Social movements and international business activities of firms	19
A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: Governments’ nonbusiness objectives and discreet power	19
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment	19
Neglected elements: What we should cover more of in international business research	19
The effects of trade integration on formal and informal entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic development	19
The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research	19
New connectivity in the fragmented world	19
Running out of steam? A political incentive perspective of FDI inflows in China	18
Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework	18
Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks	18
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions	18
Family-owned multinational enterprises in the post-pandemic global economy	18
Positive institutional changes through peace: The relative effects of peace agreements and non-market capabilities on FDI	18
The impact of multinational enterprises on community informal institutions and rural poverty	18
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions	18
Home-market economic development as a moderator of the self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects	17
Jurisdiction shopping and foreign location choice: The role of market and nonmarket experience in the European solar energy industry	17
Chief marketing officers’ discretion and firms’ internationalization: An empirical investigation	17