OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Business Studies is 20. 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
Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice	79
Strategic leaders in multinational enterprises: A role-specific microfoundational view and research agenda	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
Will you speak up for me? Inducing retail store managers’ engagement with MNCs’ brands across cultures	64
The “language” of career success: The effects of English language competence on local employees’ career outcomes in foreign subsidiaries	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
Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research	50
From horizontal knowledge sharing to vertical knowledge transfer: The role of boundary-spanning commitment in international joint ventures	50
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms	48
Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets: the role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals	47
Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics	47
The effects of government debt on corporate borrowing in developing economies: evidence from Africa	45
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
How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability	43

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
Foreign bank entry and the outward foreign direct investment of companies: evidence from China	42
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
Methodological challenges and insights for future international business research	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
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
Reframing social entrepreneurship in IB: from institutional constraints to generative processes in Creation Theory	35
Techno-nationalism and cross-border acquisitions in an age of geopolitical rivalry	34
Global ecological dependence and multinationals’ climate innovation: the role of climate risk exposure and institutional conditions	34
Heterogeneity and internationalization of government investments: sovereign wealth funds and beyond	33
Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad	33
Regulatory actions and reputation spillovers: investor reactions to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations	32
Universal banking powers and liquidity creation	31
Liability of foreignness in immersive technologies: evidence from extended reality innovations	31
Two-sided effects of state equity: The survival of Sino–foreign IJVs	31
Perspectives on international business: insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief	30
Collision course: Carlos Ghosn and the culture wars that upended an auto empire	30
Family ties and corporate tax avoidance	29
The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention	28
Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research	28
Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights	28
Holding back the damage: strong political institutions and the effect of populism on business investment	27
Smart disclosure: an enabler for multinationals to reduce human rights violations in global supply chains	27
The politicized nature of international business	26
Business lobbying in the European Union	26
Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry	26
List of Guest Editors	26
A relational view on the performance effects of international diversification strategies	26
Standing on the shoulders of international business giants: in memory of Yair Aharoni	26
Multihoming: an internationalization strategy in a world of artificial intelligence ecosystems	25
Regulatory institutional misalignment and cross-border acquisitions: evidence from an emerging-market country	25
What produces corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing? The effects of interorganizational relationship governance and institutional distance	25
Widening the lens: Multilevel drivers of firm corporate social performance	25
Machine learning in international business	24
Managing disruptions in international distribution channels: effectuation, business model innovation, and channel resilience	24
Horizontal subcontracting and the global factory	24
Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research	24
List of Guest Editors and Reviewers	24
A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business	23
Foreign languages in advertising: Theoretical implications for language-related IB research	23
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research	23
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild	22
Institutional investors, tax havens, and multinational subsidiaries	22
Theories of firms and the emergence of multinational enterprises: the organizational and managerial implications of solving transactional problems versus creating exchange value	22
International involvement of managed ecosystems: a quasi-experiment of foreign user traffic to e-commerce platforms amid geopolitical conflicts	22

The role of networks in international acquisition premiums	22
Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research	22
How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective	22
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires	22
Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension	22
Innovate or litigate? The dual impacts of multimarket contacts on global competition	21
How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal	21
Inward foreign direct investment and technological innovation of local firms: differential impacts on incremental and radical innovation	21
Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment	21
Publisher Correction: Unpacking collective materialism: how values shape consumption in seven Asian markets	20
Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research	20
Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence	20
Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda	20
Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes	20