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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa	187
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach	108
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.	103
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity	80
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions	69
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance	67
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets	66
Editorial Board	65
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions	65
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules	65
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows	63
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model	62
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions	57
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?	54
Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools	52
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation	51
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms	49
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy	48
International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop	42
Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review	40
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions	40
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity	39
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies	37
Editorial Board	37
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors	32

A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research	32
Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese	32
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope	31
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience	31
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs	31
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	31