OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Business Review is 29. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	296
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	146
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	119
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	100
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	97
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	85
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	83
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	75
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	70
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	60
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most	57
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers	57
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	51
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	43
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	41
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	40
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	39
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	39
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	39
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	39
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	38
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?	37
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	31
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	30
Editorial Board	30

Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	29
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	29
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	29
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	29