OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Business Review is 32. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	371
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy	180
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	137
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	120
Managing resource constraints through international networks: Capability development and incremental and radical innovation in emerging markets	115
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	102
Exploring joint conformance to board independence and board gender diversity norms: An actor-centered configurational approach	94
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	76
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	73
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	64
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	62
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	52
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	48
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most	46
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?	44
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	44
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers	43
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	42
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	42
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	41
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	41
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	38
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	38
Editorial Board	37
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	37

Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	36
Why regional economic agreements matter more than multilateral and bilateral agreements: Evidence from trade and investment in East Asia	35
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	35
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	34
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	33
The impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the strategic asset seeking motives of Chinese multinational enterprises: An analysis of patent and trademark acquisitions	32
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	32