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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the Effects of Internationalization on CSR in Service and Non-Service MNEs	94
Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	59
Dealing with Trust Deficit and Liabilities of Foreignness in Host Countries: Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Australia	53
Organizational Influences and Performance Impact of Cross-Border E-Commerce Barriers: The Moderating Role of Home Country Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Market Internet Penetration	45
Innovation Quality Shortfalls and Overseas R&D Scope: A Relational Culture Perspective on Collective Decision-Making Dynamics	45
Global Value Chain Participation and Business Performance in the Manufacturing Sector: A Firm-Level Panel Analysis	37
Democracy and Natural Resources: Their Institutional Impact on Tax Haven Use by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	32
A Review of International Management Research on Corporate Taxation	30
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship and Foreign Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Multinationals: A Loose Coupling Perspective	27
Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study	24
E-Commerce Policy and International Business	23
Internationalization Process Dimensions and Overseas Subsidiary Survival: Evidence from Born Global Firms in Emerging Markets	22
Early Internationalization in Family and Non-family Firms: Performance Implications and the Role of Non-family Managers	20
Returns to Internationalization: Business Group-Affiliated Firms vs Standalone Firms	19
Growing Old, but Paying Back: Understanding How Age Influences Corporate Social Innovation Depth and Breadth of Multinationals in Weak Institutional Contexts	17
It’s Not What It Is; It’s What It Seems: The Moderating Role of Home-Country Cultural Institutions on Political Risk and Equity-Based Entry Decisions—A Meta-Analysis	16
The Global Factory Revisited	16
Platform-Based Internationalization of Smaller Firms: The Role of Government Policy	16
Rethinking the Theory of the Multinational Enterprise: Structural Dynamics and the Future of Work	15
The Diary Method in International Management Research	15
Are More Foreign Sales Better for the Financial Performance? An Institutional and Resource-based Perspective	15
Institutional Complementarity and Substitution in Indian Multinational Enterprises’ Cross-Border Investment Decisions	14
Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets	13
Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries for Deletion and Redeployment	13
Irregular and Interrupted Internationalization Pathways: An Event System Approach to Understand the Role of Critical Events	13

Managing Shadow IT in Cross-Border Acquisitions: A Case Study of a German Multinational	13
Acknowledgement to MIR Board Members and Ad hoc Reviewers 2024	13
The Performance of Decision-Making Strategies in SME Internationalization: The Role of Host Market’s Institutional Development	12
“Am I Different?” The Unseen Divide of Communication Overaccommodation and Its Effect on Employees’ Sense of Belonging and Job Satisfaction	12
Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture	11
MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions	11
Conducting Research in International Business Through a Complex Adaptive Systems Lens	10
Context Effects on Importer Dependence in Export Business Relationships: The Fire Smolders Under the Ice	10
Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	10
How to Synergize Different Institutional Logics of Firms in Cross-border Acquisitions: A Matching Theory Perspective	10
History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice	10
The Interplay of Conflicting and Complementing Institutional Logics in Sustainability Practices	9
E-commerce Policy and the Global Economy: A Path to More Inclusive Development?	9
Predicting Cross-border Merger and Acquisition Completion through CEO Characteristics: A Machine Learning Approach	9
Taking Stock and Construct Cleanup: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Host Country Nationals’ Supportive Behaviors Toward Expatriates	9
Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams	9
The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises	9
When Born Globals Grow Up: A Review and Agenda for Research on the Performance of Maturing Early Internationalizers	8
The Roads Not Taken: Issue Selling and Post-decisional Sensemaking in Multinational Corporations	8
The Curvilinear Impact of Cultural Friction on Foreign Divestment	7
Foreign Equity Valuations of Emerging Market Firms: The Effects of Institutional Distance and Information Spillovers	7
Stakeholder Influences and MNC Subsidiaries’ CSR Under Institutional Voids: An Empirical Examination of International Service Enterprises in Korea	7
Language Operative Capacity in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	7
Overcoming the ESG Voids at Home: Supplier ESG Performance and the Internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	7
Determinants of Wholly Owned Foreign Direct Investments in E-Commerce Firms: A Hierarchical Country- and Firm-Level Analysis	7
Speed of International Expansion: The Mediating Role of Network Resources Mobilisation	7
Ethical Issues in International Business Research	7
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types	6
Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy	6
Too Much of Two Good Things: Explicating the Limited Complementarity Between Drivers of MNC Headquarters’ Absorptive Capacity	6
Effects of National Institutions on Corporate Brand Ability Associations During the Pandemic	6
Dynamic Capability Drivers and Performance Outcomes of Strategic Import Planning: The Moderating Role of Organizational Resources and Market Factors	6
An Enquiry into MNEs’ CSR Practices: Literature Assessment, Managerial Implications, and Academic Perspectives	6
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	5
Roles of Market Characteristics and Experience in Ventures’ International Growth Mode Choice: A Conjoint Experiment	5
Dynamic Capabilities, Internationalization and Growth of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Roles of Research and Development Intensity and Collaborative Intensity	5
Bilateral Influence Capacity, Geopolitical Competition, and Chinese Expatriate Workers in Africa	5
Building Bridges with Words and Networks: A Moderated Mediation Model of Language Proficiency, Host-Country Nationals, and Expatriate Adjustment	5
Multinational Corporations’ Interactions with Host Institutions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward	5
Two Decades of International Business and International Management Scholarship on Africa: A Review and Future Directions	5
From Barriers to Gateways: Leveraging Institutional Change for SMEs’ Access to International Markets	5
Due Diligence in International Alliances: Performance Outcomes and the Moderating Effect of Geographic Distance and Partner-Specific Experience	5
Publisher Correction: Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	5
Knowledge Sharing of Self-Initiated Expatriates: The Effects of Job Embeddedness, Career Capital, and Supervisor Incivility	4
Cross-Border Dynamics of IP Modularity: International Patenting in LEDs and Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Technology	4
Management of Global Value Chains and Risk: An Application to Emerging Markets	4
E-commerce Policy Environment, Digital Platform, and Internationalization of Chinese New Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Correction: Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	4
Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges of International Service Firms: An Introduction and Research Agenda	3
Revisiting the Effect of Internationalization on Firm Governance: A Replication and Extension Study	3

Let Us Halt the Resurgence of Protectionism: Trade Openness, Innovation Ecosystem, and Workforce Diversity in the Knowledge-Based Economy	3
Beggars Cannot be Choosers? How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Direct Problemistic Search at Firm Internationalization	3
Reverse Efficiency Spillovers from Host Country Banks to Foreign Banks: Evidence from Emerging Market Bank Subsidiaries in Developed Markets	3
Protectionism and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Undertaken by US Multinational Enterprises: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection	3
The Influence of Foreign Ownership on Firm’s Digital Orientation: Evidence from China	3
Pay Dispersion and Firms’ Internationalization Strategy: Evidence from China	3
Pollution Haven, Private Politics, and Competitive Dynamics: How Do Irresponsible MNEs Challenged by an International NGO Compete to Act Responsibly?	3
Too Far East is West: CEO Overconfidence Influences Firm Internationalization in Emerging Economies	3
The Role of Ethical Leadership’s CSR Initiatives and Leader’s Trait Mindfulness in Consumer Well-Being in Multinational Hotels	3