OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Management International Review is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	64
Dealing with Trust Deficit and Liabilities of Foreignness in Host Countries: Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Australia	57
De-internationalization: A Thematic Review and the Directions Forward	43
The Effects of Timing and Order of Government Support Mechanisms for SME Exports	39
Organizational Influences and Performance Impact of Cross-Border E-Commerce Barriers: The Moderating Role of Home Country Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Market Internet Penetration	34
A Review of International Management Research on Corporate Taxation	28
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship and Foreign Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Multinationals: A Loose Coupling Perspective	26
Subsidiary Agency in Gender Equality Practice Implementation: The Case of Korean MNE Subsidiaries in Sweden	25
Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study	25
E-Commerce Policy and International Business	25
Returns to Internationalization: Business Group-Affiliated Firms vs Standalone Firms	25
Growing Old, but Paying Back: Understanding How Age Influences Corporate Social Innovation Depth and Breadth of Multinationals in Weak Institutional Contexts	21
Platform-Based Internationalization of Smaller Firms: The Role of Government Policy	20
Institutional Complementarity and Substitution in Indian Multinational Enterprises’ Cross-Border Investment Decisions	19
The Diary Method in International Management Research	19
Turning the Tables: The Relationship Between Performance and Multinationality	17
Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries for Deletion and Redeployment	17
MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions	16
Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture	16
Acknowledgement to MIR Board Members and Ad hoc Reviewers 2024	16
The Performance of Decision-Making Strategies in SME Internationalization: The Role of Host Market’s Institutional Development	16
Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets	15
Relationship Between Climate Risk and Physical and Organizational Capital	15
History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice	13
Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	11

The Interplay of Conflicting and Complementing Institutional Logics in Sustainability Practices	11
How to Synergize Different Institutional Logics of Firms in Cross-border Acquisitions: A Matching Theory Perspective	11
Predicting Cross-border Merger and Acquisition Completion through CEO Characteristics: A Machine Learning Approach	11
Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams	10
Effects of Internationalization Rhythm and Speed on E-Commerce Firms’ Growth and the Role of Institutional Distances	10
When Born Globals Grow Up: A Review and Agenda for Research on the Performance of Maturing Early Internationalizers	9
R&D and Foreign Subsidiary Performance at or Below the Technology Frontier	9
Foreign Equity Valuations of Emerging Market Firms: The Effects of Institutional Distance and Information Spillovers	8
Language Operative Capacity in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	8
The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises	8
E-commerce Policy and the Global Economy: A Path to More Inclusive Development?	8
The Curvilinear Impact of Cultural Friction on Foreign Divestment	8
Speed of International Expansion: The Mediating Role of Network Resources Mobilisation	8
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types	7
Overcoming the ESG Voids at Home: Supplier ESG Performance and the Internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	7
Archetypes of Driver Combinations Leading to Foreign Market Exit: An Investigation into European Grocery Retailing	7
Effects of National Institutions on Corporate Brand Ability Associations During the Pandemic	6
Determinants of Wholly Owned Foreign Direct Investments in E-Commerce Firms: A Hierarchical Country- and Firm-Level Analysis	6
Too Much of Two Good Things: Explicating the Limited Complementarity Between Drivers of MNC Headquarters’ Absorptive Capacity	6
An Enquiry into MNEs’ CSR Practices: Literature Assessment, Managerial Implications, and Academic Perspectives	6
Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy	6
Accelerated Internationalization Among Inexperienced Digital Entrepreneurs: Toward a Holistic Entrepreneurial Decision-Making Model	5
Roles of Market Characteristics and Experience in Ventures’ International Growth Mode Choice: A Conjoint Experiment	5
Emerging Economy Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Bibliometric and Thematic Content Analysis	5
Publisher Correction: Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	5
The Internationalization and Voluntary Adoption of International Accounting Standards by Japanese MNEs	5
Dynamic Capabilities, Internationalization and Growth of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Roles of Research and Development Intensity and Collaborative Intensity	5
Two Decades of International Business and International Management Scholarship on Africa: A Review and Future Directions	5
Correction: Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	4
Multinational Corporations’ Interactions with Host Institutions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward	4
Knowledge Sharing of Self-Initiated Expatriates: The Effects of Job Embeddedness, Career Capital, and Supervisor Incivility	4
Reverse Efficiency Spillovers from Host Country Banks to Foreign Banks: Evidence from Emerging Market Bank Subsidiaries in Developed Markets	4
E-commerce Policy Environment, Digital Platform, and Internationalization of Chinese New Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Management of Global Value Chains and Risk: An Application to Emerging Markets	4
Cross-Border Dynamics of IP Modularity: International Patenting in LEDs and Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Technology	4
Achieving the Paradox of Concurrent Internationalization Speed: Internationalizing Rapidly in Both Breadth and Depth	4
Revisiting the Effect of Internationalization on Firm Governance: A Replication and Extension Study	3
Pollution Haven, Private Politics, and Competitive Dynamics: How Do Irresponsible MNEs Challenged by an International NGO Compete to Act Responsibly?	3
The Role of Ethical Leadership’s CSR Initiatives and Leader’s Trait Mindfulness in Consumer Well-Being in Multinational Hotels	3
Research Published in Management International Review from 2006 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Directions	3
Effects of International E-Commerce Firms’ Depth versus Breadth of Control on Foreign Sales Performance and the Role of Market Size and Growth as Context Factors	3
Protectionism and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Undertaken by US Multinational Enterprises: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection	3
Let Us Halt the Resurgence of Protectionism: Trade Openness, Innovation Ecosystem, and Workforce Diversity in the Knowledge-Based Economy	3
Too Far East is West: CEO Overconfidence Influences Firm Internationalization in Emerging Economies	3
Beggars Cannot be Choosers? How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Direct Problemistic Search at Firm Internationalization	3
Market or Community? An Institutional Logics Interpretation of how MNE Subsidiaries Respond to Mandated Social Innovation in India	3