OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Business Studies is 15. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Research methods in international business	206
Understanding the unwritten rules of the game: Government work experience and salary premiums in foreign MNC subsidiaries	180
Global virtual work: a review, integrative framework, and future research opportunities	130
More alike than different? A comparison of variance explained by cross-cultural models	127
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	120
Research handbook on international corporate social responsibility	110
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	102
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	91
Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation	87
The Oxford handbook of international business strategy	79
Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence	73
Foreign competitive pressure and inversions by U.S. multinational enterprises	69
Cross-cultural management revisited: A qualitative approach	64
In vino vanitas: Social dynamics and performance of Chinese château acquisitions in the Bordeaux vineyards	62
Putting qualitative international business research in context(s)	61
The two sides of cooperation in export relationships: When more is not better	61
The value of publishing in JIBS	59
Revealed and reserved: a compensating approach of voluntary disclosure by family multinationals	55
Author and Keyword Indexes for Volume 52	54
Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy	52
Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business	49
Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?	43
Bankruptcy law and angel investors around the world	41
Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination- and origin-country identifications	41
A multipolar geo-strategy for international business	37

Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension	37
Expatriates’ boundary-spanning: double-edged effects in multinational enterprises	35
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	35
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires	34
The value of theory- and evidence-based intellectual dialogue on foundational elements of the IB field	34
Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks	32
Sustainable international business model innovations for a globalizing circular economy: a review and synthesis, integrative framework, and opportunities for future research	32
Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility	32
General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries	31
Cross-border political ties: foreign firms’ campaign contributions and the crowding out of domestic competitors	31
Participation and upgrading along global value chains: the role of audit oversight	31
Towards interdisciplinarity in international business: national culture as an example	31
Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business	30
Corruption revisited: the influence of national personality, culture, and wealth	30
Social movements and international business activities of firms	29
Relationships of stressors and opportunism in cross-border exchange partnership contexts: When and how monitoring matters	29
Institutional distance, slack resources, and foreign market entry	29
Global migration: Implications for international business scholarship	28
Global scaling as a logic of multinationalization	28
Internal versus external agglomeration advantages in investment location choice: The role of global cities’ international connectivity	28
Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks	27
Correction to: A cross-cultural exploratory analysis of pandemic growth: The case of COVID-19	27
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	27
Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets	27
MNEs and financing climate change transitions: the challenge of collective action	27
Competition laws, ownership, and corporate social responsibility	26
Correction to: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future	26
Protecting intellectual property in foreign subsidiaries: An internal network defense perspective	26
Publisher Correction: The multinational enterprise, development, and the inequality of opportunities: A research agenda	26
Beyond “Doing as the Romans Do”: A review of research on countercultural business practices	25
Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions	25
Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions	25
Nationalist sentiments and the multinational enterprise: insights from organizational sociology	25
Digital platform attention and international sales: An attention-based view	24
The Sage handbook of contemporary cross-cultural management	24
Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality	24
The impact of cultural tightness on the relationship between structural holes, tie strength, and creativity	24
Actionable guidelines to improve ‘theory-related’ contributions to international business research	23
Referral bonuses in global talent acquisition: the role of social networks in China and the US	23
Learning from inbound foreign acquisitions for outbound expansion by emerging market MNEs	23
Family-owned multinational enterprises in the post-pandemic global economy	22
International expansion and home-country resource acquisition: A signaling perspective of emerging-market firms’ internationalization	22
Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research	22
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business	22
The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	21
How to intelligently embrace generative AI: the first guardrails for the use of GenAI in IB research	20
Conceptualizing international new ventures as the nexus of entrepreneurship and international business	20
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	20
International business studies: Are we really so uniquely complex?	19
Domestic financial conditions and MNCs’ global competitiveness: evidence from the Swiss franc shock	19

The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research	19
MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio	19
Whither geographic proximity? Bypassing local R&D units in foreign university collaboration	18
Foreignness as a double-edged sword for internationalizing cultural goods: deep learning–based semiotic analysis of Hollywood movies in China	18
The liability of gender? Constraints and enablers of foreign market entry for female artists	18
Asynchronicities of growth: a process extension to the Uppsala model of internationalisation	17
The Big Con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies	17
What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions	16
Financial statement comparability and global supply chain relations	16
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research	16
Corruption level and uncertainty, FDI and domestic investment	16
Correction to: What’s so special about born globals, their entrepreneurs or their business model?	16
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	16
Social integration in subsidiary-building acquisitions	16
Capitalizing on the uniqueness of international business: Towards a theory of place, space, and organization	15
Cross-sector collaborations in global supply chains as an opportunity structure: How NGOs promote corporate sustainability in China	15
Not all threats are equal: symbolic and realistic threats and the deployment of parent-country nationals	15
Correction: International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions	15
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	15
Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies	15
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective	15