OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Research is 110. 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
Internationalization of hybrid state-owned enterprises from emerging markets: Institutional investors as enablers	5749
An application of the COA Framework: Building a sound foundation for organizational resilience	663
Effects of alliance portfolio breadth and depth on exploratory and exploitative innovation: Evidence from Indian high-tech sectors	560
Threatened by your stars? A multi-method research investigating the negative upward influence of star employees on immediate supervisors	552
Online chat encounters: Satisfying customers through dialogical interaction	537
Going against the Tide: How Self-Construal Moderates Receptivity towards Popular Brand Activism	365
All the cues we cannot see: How reward-driven distractors render consumers insensitive to assortment complexity	358
Family strains, work passion drains: The impact of daily family demands on daily work passion	327
Editorial Board	322
Transformative marketing in the new normal: A novel practice-scholarly integrative review of business-to-business marketing mix challenges, opportunities, and solutions	300
Business-community relations under COVID-19: A study of micro and small firms	297
Consumer reviews and product life cycle: On the temporal dynamics of electronic word of mouth on movie box office	294
Speaking fast and slow: How speech rate of digital assistants affects likelihood to use	283
Exploring healthcare/health-product ecommerce satisfaction: A text mining and machine learning application	282
Reappraising the roles of review valence and conflict in online relationships	281
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance in a cross-country context: A meta-analysis	269
Job demands-resources and conservation of resources theories: How do they help to explain employee well-being and future job design?	267
Prosocial imprint: CEO childhood famine experience and corporate philanthropic donation	254
Beyond the platform: Social media as a multi-faceted resource in value creation for entrepreneurial firms in a collaborative network	252
Luxury not for the masses: Measuring inconspicuous luxury motivations	252
Addressing the conceptualization and measurement challenges of sustainability orientation: A systematic review and research agenda	244
Re-evaluating electronic government development index to monitor the transformation toward achieving sustainable development goals	227
A goal-driven framework for compliance-dependent services: Pathways to customer satisfaction and well-being	225
Fostering growth patterns of SMEs through business model innovation. A tailored dynamic business modelling approach	223
Service products and productization	219

Investigating organisational learning to master project complexity: An embedded case study	218
Past, present, and future of international joint ventures	217
What do managers value in the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship? Identification and measurement of the manager’s perspective of LMX (MLMX)	214
A circular capability framework to address food waste and losses in the agri-food supply chain: The antecedents, principles and outcomes of circular economy	209
Managing end-of-life solar photovoltaic e-waste in India: A circular economy approach	206
Prosumer-to-customer exchange in the sharing economy: Evidence from the P2P accommodation context	205
Gravitating exogenous shocks to the next normal through entrepreneurial coopetive interactions: A PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach	200
Impact of daily entrepreneurial stressors on long-term transformational leader behaviors and well-being: Differences in experienced and nascent entrepreneurs	199
Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach	194
It grows on you: Perceptions of sales/service personnel with facial hair	194
Mental health among B2B salespeople: A morphological analysis	192
M&A committees and M&A performance	192
When people make the difference: A person-organization fit approach in knowledge transfer offices	187
Too much of two good things: The curvilinear effects of self-efficacy and market validation in new ventures	184
Emergence in emergency: How actors adapt to service ecosystem disruption	183
No laughing matter, or a secret weapon? Exploring the effect of humor in service failure situations	182
Institutional logics and organizational filters: Differential responses to innovation and environmentalism in China’s cleantech sector	180
The nature of vicarious embarrassment	179
Choices in CDO appointment and firm performance: Moving towards a Stakeholder-based approach	179
How to create more customer value in independent shops: A set-theoretic approach to value creation	178
The “Pricing Footprint” of Country-of-Origin: Conceptualization and Empirical Assessment	175
Cultural tightness emancipation and venture profitability: An international experience lens	172
Chartering marketing strategy and marketing management research toward greater relevance and impact	171
Can customer relationships backfire? How relationship norms shape moral obligation in cancelation behavior	171
Examining mechanisms for creating shared value by Asian firms	171
Usage intention model of digital assessment systems	166
The impact of Covid-19 on how core and peripheral service satisfaction impacts customer satisfaction	165
The appeal of blurred imagery: Enhancing advertising and brand attitudes for luxury goods	165
Business-to-business salespeople and political skill: Relationship building, deviance, and performance	164
Uncovering local communities’ motivational factors to partner with a nonprofit for social impact: A mixed-methods approach	163
Turning lurkers into innovation agents: An interactionist perspective of self-determinant theory	162
The roles of NSD performance and standardized service development processes in the performance of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises	161
Multimarket competition effects on product line decisions – A multi-objective decision model in fast moving consumer goods industry	159
Supplier resilience under the COVID-19 crisis in apparel global value chain (GVC): The role of GVC governance and supplier’s upgrading	159
Sonic branding of meat- and plant-based foods: The role of timbre	156
Mission statements and financial and sustainability performance: An exploratory study of Benefit Corporations certified as B Corps	154
Is cyber anxiety signaling useful? An examination of leader’s emotional and behavioral reactions	154
Innovation capability in geographically dispersed R&D teams: The role of social capital and IT support	154
Targeted reminder advertising: Retailers’ new weapon against cart abandonment	152
Consumer self-regulation: Looking back to look forward. A systematic literature review	152
Editorial Board	152
Feeling warm or skeptical? An investigation into the effects of incentivized eWOM programs on customers’ eWOM sharing intentions	151
How historical and social aspirations reshape the relationship between corporate financial performance and corporate social responsibility	150
When Big Is Less than Small: Why dominant brands lack authenticity in their sustainability initiatives	148
Avoiding the brand for me, us, or them? Consumer reactions to negative brand events	147
Taking matters into one’s own hands? Addressing the relational nature of FLE autonomy	144
Legitimacy association of an aged brand: Shelter for a brand suffering from consumers’ perceptions of incompetence	143
Editorial Board	142
The effect of local institutions on the competitive strategies of exporters. The case of emerging economies in Latin America	140
Supplier involvement and supplier performance in new product development: Moderating effects of supplier salesperson behaviors	140

Cash creates value for supply chain systems, but who appropriates that value?	139
Thank you for not smoking – A multi-method investigation to understand the effect of anti-smoking warnings in television programs	139
Deparadoxification and value focus in sharing ventures: Concealing paradoxes in strategic decision-making	137
Cross-border M&As: Theorizing the negative effect of political ideology mismatch with host country labor institutional context on employee outcomes	136
The Dunning-Kruger effect and entrepreneurial self-efficacy: How tenure and search distance jointly direct entrepreneurial self-efficacy	135
Home country and firm-specific advantage influences on HRM replication versus adaptation in EMNEs operating in advanced economies: A qualitative comparative analysis	135
The social influence of employee groups: Understanding the impact of employee groups on customer intentions through intimidation	135
On the (in)effectiveness of standardized versus adapted international promotion strategies: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms	133
Harnessing subcultural identity to optimize workplace rewards: Evidence from Russia	131
Can a price discount Backfire? effects of the juxtaposition of Add-On fees and price discounts on consumer evaluations	130
Editorial Board	130
Employee tenure and staff performance: The case of a social enterprise	130
Why or How? the impact of Construal-Level Theory on vaccine message receptivity	130
The Drucker intangibles measurement system: An academic perspective	129
Let’s drink to that! How wider glass rim leads to more pleasurable purchases	129
Follow your heart or your mind: The effect of consumption frequency on consumers’ reliance on feelings	129
How women CEOs’ financial knowledge and firm homophily affect venture performance	128
The consumer on stage: Toward a typology of improvisation in consumption contexts	125
In governments we trust: A two-country Brexit field experiment on perceived uncertainty as mediator for consumer decisions	124
‘Delayed Forbearance’: Multipoint contact and mutual forbearance in inaugural and subsequent competitive actions	123
When do multinational corporations adjust production volume flexibly among in-network subsidiaries?	120
Editorial Board	120
Founder versus agent CEOs: Effects of founder status and power on firm innovation and cost of capital	119
Editorial Board	119
The interactive effect of power and self-construal on consumers’ preferences for brand-logo size	118
Editorial Board	117
Governance of new product design: The influence of national institutions	116
Editorial Board	116
Lifestyle of the rich and famous: Exploring the ultra-high net-worth individuals’ customer experience (UHCX)	115
The paradox in happiness sales: How can happiness primes backfire?	115
Are business schools from the Global South walking their talk? Internalizing responsible management education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America	115
Editorial Board	115
Exploring young consumers’ intention to pay for shared express packaging: A multi-study analysis	114
Harnessing creative tensions: A micro-level study of value creation	114
A capability pathway to subjective economic well-being: Looking beyond materialism	110
Predicting primary and secondary stakeholder engagement: A CEO motivation-means contingency model	110
When review verification does more harm than good: How certified reviews determine customer–brand relationship quality	110