OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Business Review is 31. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	246
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	131
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	116
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	88
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	88
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	81
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	74
Editorial Board	70
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	69
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	63
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	63
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	62
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	57
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers	52
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	52
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most	51
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	49
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	46
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	45
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	41
Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools	38
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	36
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop	36
Editorial Board	35
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	35

The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?	35
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	34
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	34
Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese	32
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	32
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	31