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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing the Effects of Internationalization on CSR in Service and Non-Service MNEs	74
Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	43
Organizational Influences and Performance Impact of Cross-Border E-Commerce Barriers: The Moderating Role of Home Country Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Market Internet Penetration	37
Dealing with Trust Deficit and Liabilities of Foreignness in Host Countries: Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Australia	33
Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationship and Foreign Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Multinationals: A Loose Coupling Perspective	32
The Effects of Timing and Order of Government Support Mechanisms for SME Exports	32
Democracy and Natural Resources: Their Institutional Impact on Tax Haven Use by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	29
A Review of International Management Research on Corporate Taxation	28
Returns to Internationalization: Business Group-Affiliated Firms vs Standalone Firms	27
E-Commerce Policy and International Business	25
Business-Civil Society Collaborations in South Korea: A Multi-Stage Pattern Matching Study	24
Subsidiary Agency in Gender Equality Practice Implementation: The Case of Korean MNE Subsidiaries in Sweden	21
Growing Old, but Paying Back: Understanding How Age Influences Corporate Social Innovation Depth and Breadth of Multinationals in Weak Institutional Contexts	19
The Global Factory Revisited	19
Platform-Based Internationalization of Smaller Firms: The Role of Government Policy	18
Institutional Complementarity and Substitution in Indian Multinational Enterprises’ Cross-Border Investment Decisions	17
Divestment of Foreign Subsidiaries for Deletion and Redeployment	16
The Diary Method in International Management Research	15
MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions	14
Turning the Tables: The Relationship Between Performance and Multinationality	14
Acknowledgement to MIR Board Members and Ad hoc Reviewers 2024	13
History Matters: Colonial-Based Connectivity and Foreign Headquarter Location Choice	11
Relationship Between Climate Risk and Physical and Organizational Capital	11
The Interplay of Conflicting and Complementing Institutional Logics in Sustainability Practices	11
Contextualizing AMO Explanations of Knowledge Sharing in MNEs: The Role of Organizational and National Culture	11

Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets	11
Conducting Research in International Business Through a Complex Adaptive Systems Lens	11
The Performance of Decision-Making Strategies in SME Internationalization: The Role of Host Market’s Institutional Development	11
Effects of Internationalization Rhythm and Speed on E-Commerce Firms’ Growth and the Role of Institutional Distances	10
How to Synergize Different Institutional Logics of Firms in Cross-border Acquisitions: A Matching Theory Perspective	10
Predicting Cross-border Merger and Acquisition Completion through CEO Characteristics: A Machine Learning Approach	10
Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	10
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
Context Effects on Importer Dependence in Export Business Relationships: The Fire Smolders Under the Ice	9
Taking Stock and Construct Cleanup: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Host Country Nationals’ Supportive Behaviors Toward Expatriates	8
When Born Globals Grow Up: A Review and Agenda for Research on the Performance of Maturing Early Internationalizers	8
Overcoming the ESG Voids at Home: Supplier ESG Performance and the Internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises	8
E-commerce Policy and the Global Economy: A Path to More Inclusive Development?	8
The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises	8
Foreign Equity Valuations of Emerging Market Firms: The Effects of Institutional Distance and Information Spillovers	7
Learning Through Firms’ Overseas Subsidiaries in the United States and China: Linking Host Country Environments into Technological Learning Outcome Types	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
The Curvilinear Impact of Cultural Friction on Foreign Divestment	6
Effects of National Institutions on Corporate Brand Ability Associations During the Pandemic	6
Too Much of Two Good Things: Explicating the Limited Complementarity Between Drivers of MNC Headquarters’ Absorptive Capacity	6
Speed of International Expansion: The Mediating Role of Network Resources Mobilisation	6
Determinants of Wholly Owned Foreign Direct Investments in E-Commerce Firms: A Hierarchical Country- and Firm-Level Analysis	6
Dynamic Capabilities, Internationalization and Growth of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Roles of Research and Development Intensity and Collaborative Intensity	6
Ethical Issues in International Business Research	6
An Enquiry into MNEs’ CSR Practices: Literature Assessment, Managerial Implications, and Academic Perspectives	6
Dynamic Capability Drivers and Performance Outcomes of Strategic Import Planning: The Moderating Role of Organizational Resources and Market Factors	6
Driving Social Innovation in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets through International Social Alliances: The Role of Legitimacy	6
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
Publisher Correction: Protectionism and its Impact on MNC Subsidiaries’ Performance	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
Reverse Efficiency Spillovers from Host Country Banks to Foreign Banks: Evidence from Emerging Market Bank Subsidiaries in Developed Markets	5
Bilateral Influence Capacity, Geopolitical Competition, and Chinese Expatriate Workers in Africa	4
E-commerce Policy Environment, Digital Platform, and Internationalization of Chinese New Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic	4
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
Correction: Breaking Barriers: How Do the Marketing Capabilities of Emerging-Market Micro-Multinationals Drive Social Innovation?	4
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	4
Management of Global Value Chains and Risk: An Application to Emerging Markets	4
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
Revisiting the Effect of Internationalization on Firm Governance: A Replication and Extension Study	3
Protectionism and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Undertaken by US Multinational Enterprises: The Moderating Role of Intellectual Property Rights Protection	3
Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges of International Service Firms: An Introduction and Research Agenda	3
Beggars Cannot be Choosers? How Experiential and Vicarious Learning Direct Problemistic Search at Firm Internationalization	3
Pay Dispersion and Firms’ Internationalization Strategy: Evidence from China	3