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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	66
Dealing with Trust Deficit and Liabilities of Foreignness in Host Countries: Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Australia	58
Comparing the Effects of Internationalization on CSR in Service and Non-Service MNEs	42
The Effects of Timing and Order of Government Support Mechanisms for SME Exports	36
Organizational Influences and Performance Impact of Cross-Border E-Commerce Barriers: The Moderating Role of Home Country Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Market Internet Penetration	32
A Review of International Management Research on Corporate Taxation	29
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship and Foreign Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Multinationals: A Loose Coupling Perspective	29
Democracy and Natural Resources: Their Institutional Impact on Tax Haven Use by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	28
Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study	27
E-Commerce Policy and International Business	27
Subsidiary Agency in Gender Equality Practice Implementation: The Case of Korean MNE Subsidiaries in Sweden	26
Returns to Internationalization: Business Group-Affiliated Firms vs Standalone Firms	26
The Global Factory Revisited	22
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
Turning the Tables: The Relationship Between Performance and Multinationality	19
Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries for Deletion and Redeployment	17
The Diary Method in International Management Research	16
MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions	14
The Performance of Decision-Making Strategies in SME Internationalization: The Role of Host Market’s Institutional Development	13
Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture	13
Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets	13
Acknowledgement to MIR Board Members and Ad hoc Reviewers 2024	13
Relationship Between Climate Risk and Physical and Organizational Capital	12

History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice	11
Predicting Cross-border Merger and Acquisition Completion through CEO Characteristics: A Machine Learning Approach	11
Conducting Research in International Business Through a Complex Adaptive Systems Lens	11
The Interplay of Conflicting and Complementing Institutional Logics in Sustainability Practices	10
Effects of Internationalization Rhythm and Speed on E-Commerce Firms’ Growth and the Role of Institutional Distances	10
Context Effects on Importer Dependence in Export Business Relationships: The Fire Smolders Under the Ice	10
How to Synergize Different Institutional Logics of Firms in Cross-border Acquisitions: A Matching Theory Perspective	9
R&D and Foreign Subsidiary Performance at or Below the Technology Frontier	9
Foreign Language Use, Virtuality, and the Creative Performance of Dyadic Teams	9
Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	9
The Curvilinear Impact of Cultural Friction on Foreign Divestment	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
Overcoming the ESG Voids at Home: Supplier ESG Performance and the Internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	8
When Born Globals Grow Up: A Review and Agenda for Research on the Performance of Maturing Early Internationalizers	8
Language Operative Capacity in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	7
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types	7
Speed of International Expansion: The Mediating Role of Network Resources Mobilisation	6
Emerging Economy Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Bibliometric and Thematic Content Analysis	6
Stakeholder Influences and MNC Subsidiaries’ CSR Under Institutional Voids: An Empirical Examination of International Service Enterprises in Korea	6
Foreign Equity Valuations of Emerging Market Firms: The Effects of Institutional Distance and Information Spillovers	6
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
Dynamic Capability Drivers and Performance Outcomes of Strategic Import Planning: The Moderating Role of Organizational Resources and Market Factors	6
Too Much of Two Good Things: Explicating the Limited Complementarity Between Drivers of MNC Headquarters’ Absorptive Capacity	5
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
An Enquiry into MNEs’ CSR Practices: Literature Assessment, Managerial Implications, and Academic Perspectives	5
Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy	5
Multinational Corporations’ Interactions with Host Institutions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward	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
Publisher Correction: Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	5
Management of Global Value Chains and Risk: An Application to Emerging Markets	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
Cross-Border Dynamics of IP Modularity: International Patenting in LEDs and Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Technology	4
Knowledge Sharing of Self-Initiated Expatriates: The Effects of Job Embeddedness, Career Capital, and Supervisor Incivility	4
The Internationalization and Voluntary Adoption of International Accounting Standards by Japanese MNEs	4
Correction: Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	3
Protectionism and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Undertaken by US Multinational Enterprises: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection	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
Beggars Cannot be Choosers? How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Direct Problemistic Search at Firm Internationalization	3
Bilateral Influence Capacity, Geopolitical Competition, and Chinese Expatriate Workers in Africa	3
Pollution Haven, Private Politics, and Competitive Dynamics: How Do Irresponsible MNEs Challenged by an International NGO Compete to Act Responsibly?	3
Revisiting the Effect of Internationalization on Firm Governance: A Replication and Extension Study	3