International Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of International Business Review is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance265
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity135
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets115
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa92
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions92
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach82
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.79
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation72
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy67
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms63
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions63
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers57
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most53
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions52
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?48
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions47
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows42
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model40
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?39
Editorial Board38
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity37
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies36
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research35
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules35
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs34
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies33
Editorial Board30
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope30
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience28
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns27
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors27
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships27
Editorial Board27
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets27
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication27
The impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the strategic asset seeking motives of Chinese multinational enterprises: An analysis of patent and trademark acquisitions27
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions27
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective26
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research26
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?26
Editorial Board26
Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity26
Toward fairer global reward: Lessons from international non-governmental organizations26
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms25
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors25
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock25
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn25
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking25
Editorial Board24
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion24
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?24
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization24
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets24
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures24
Editorial Board24
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms24
Distance is the spice, but not the whole enchilada: Country-pair psychic distance stimuli and country fixed effects in a deep learning implementation of the trade flow model24
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships24
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy23
Social support abroad: How do self-initiated expatriates gain support through their social networks?23
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms23
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?23
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm23
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms22
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder22
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China22
Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management22
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence22
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension22
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective22
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach21
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions21
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness21
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature21
Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image20
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions20
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation20
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?19
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution19
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises19
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance19
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions19
Is there an advantage of emergingness? A politico-regulatory perspective19
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda19
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms19
The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains18
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms18
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations18
Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors17
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs17
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations17
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias17
The efficacy of marketing skills and market responsiveness in marketing performance of emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets: The moderating role of competitive intensity17
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business17
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance17
Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?16
Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration16
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports16
Religion and foreign direct investment16
When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A relational work context perspective15
Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination15
The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime15
Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?15
Corruption and intrapreneurship15
Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms15
Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective15
CSR and stakeholder salience in MNE subsidiaries in emerging markets15
A vulnerable victim or a tacit participant? Extending the field of multinationals and corruption research14
Purpose versus profit: How institutions shape entrepreneurial success across countries14
A systematic review of the relationship between international diversification and innovation: A firm-level perspective14
Digital standardization vs. adaptation: Mitigating the liability of outsidership – A literature review14
Informal institutions’ influence on FDI flows: A configurational fsQCA analysis of corruption as part of the MNEs’ FDI motivation system14
Challenges confronting the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative: Social networks and cross-cultural adjustment in CPEC projects13
Becoming a small multinational enterprise: Four multinationalization strategies for SMEs13
Do technology-focused fast internationalizers’ performance measures change as they mature?13
Should I stay or should I go now? Understanding terrorism as a driver of institutional escapism13
Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business13
A configurational approach for analyzing cultural values and performance in Global Virtual Teams13
Unveiling the dynamics of exporting firms: How social media shapes export costs and relationships13
The role of CSR committee characteristics on R&D investments13
The legitimacy defeat of Huawei in the media: Cause, context, and process13
Foreign company misconduct and how consumers’ punitive intent is influenced by country stereotypes and the perceived similarity between the foreign country and the home country13
With a little help from my friends: Institutional obstacles, networking, and SME exporting in emerging European and Asian economies12
Multilevel trust in international marketing of healthcare services: A five-country comparative study12
CEO compensation, governance structure, and foreign direct investment in conflict-prone countries12
Unpacking unfair transaction experiences, competition, and imports in technology-intensive SMEs' FDI12
The micro-contextual conditions that influence host-country nationals’ decisions about horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises in China12
Dynamic capability deployment: The roles of dominant logic and international entrepreneurial orientation12
Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry12
Divesting or keeping overseas subsidiary production under rising production costs and uncertain market demands in host countries12
MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach12
Pursuing headquarters’ attention: Foreign subsidiaries’ strategic issue selling11
Consumer dispositions: Meanings and non-meanings of outgroup favourability11
Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains11
A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US11
The Tech Cold War, the multipolarization of the world economy, and IB research11
How do virtual and relational ties affect international opportunity realization for emerging market born-global firms? A contingency model11
Overcoming informal barriers to trade: Immigrant educational attainment vs. network competence11
Government R&D support’s effects on export performance via innovation: An analysis of organizational motivators as moderators11
Editorial Board11
Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History11
The paradox and change of Russian cultural values11
A multi-theory framework for understanding the reshoring decision11
Ethics and international business research: Considerations and best practices11
Facilitating factors in the cross-cultural transfer of management practices: The case of a German multinational in Brazil10
Looking back to look forward: Disruption, innovation and future trends in international human resource management10
Using trademarks to fend off import competition: Evidence from the top R&D-spending companies10
CEOs’ regulatory focus and firm internationalization: The moderating effects of CEO overconfidence, narcissism and career horizon10
Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research10
How does the negotiation between “me” and “we” in professional identity influence interpersonal horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises: A conceptual model10
Foreign subsidiaries as vehicles of industry 4.0: The case of foreign subsidiaries in a post-transition economy10
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology10
Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals9
Sharing economy companies’ internationalization: A business ecosystem strategy9
Revisiting the relationship between product and international diversification in new ventures: The moderating effect of effectuation processes9
Contraction under minimum wages? Operational and financial advantages of multinational subsidiaries in China9
Internationalization through social networks: A systematic review and future research agenda9
Breaking trust? International partnership exit and learning about opportunities9
Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?9
Editorial Board9
Cross-border E-commerce, platform economy, and export product quality9
Women’s representation on boards, diversity practices, and internationalization: Evidence from greenfield investment9
Outsidership, network positions and cooperation among internationalizing SMEs: An industry evolutionary perspective9
Editorial Board9
The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future9
Post-entry internationalization of born globals: The role of dynamic capabilities in accelerating growth8
Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation8
Breaking the glass ceiling: The home-host diffusion of gender-equal practice in multinational corporations (MNCs)8
Institutional environments and conflict between foreign investors and local communities in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions8
Manage the value and liability of offshoring innovation8
International network formation, home market institutional support and post-entry performance of international new ventures8
Intellectual property regimes and knowledge governance in MNEs: Expatriate staffing and R&D-manufacturing colocation8
Unveiling the power of supplier-country image on B2B customers' perceptions: Beyond the product’s beauty8
Turning decision-making logic into international performance among SMEs: Revealing the importance of international entrepreneurial marketing8
The indirect effect of online marketing capabilities on the international performance of e-commerce SMEs8
Small firms’ non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets8
Refugees’ employment: Adapting a structural inequality framework for multinational corporations8
Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows8
Small exporting firms’ choice of exchange mode in international marketing channels for perishable products: A contingency approach8
More than just empathy: The influence of moral emotions on boycott participation regarding products sourced from politically contentious regions8
Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation8
The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type8
Exploring relational norms in exporter-importer product innovation co-development: A qualitative study8
Is environmental labeling certification a “green passport” for firm exports in emerging economies? Evidence from China8
Cultural dimensions and corporate controversies: The moderating role of corporate governance8
The choice of master international franchising – A modified transaction cost model7
Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems7
Compared to whom? Performance feedback and foreign divestment of MNEs7
Engaging informal institutions through corporate political activity: Capabilities for subnational embeddedness in emerging economies7
Reputation, dynamic capabilities, and the global footprint of corporate venture capital programs7
Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability7
Political affinity and opportunism in global supply chain: The mediating role of contractual and relational governance7
Within-group differences: Differentiated Chinese expatriate-HCN interactions and the influence of human resource management practices7
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Cross-border digital platforms and discretionary adaptation strategy of exporters in emerging markets: The capability building perspective7
Understanding professional migrant women’s successful career progression within the Big Four in Luxembourg7
Editorial Board7
International experience of a manager; toward a new conceptualization7
The determinants of multinational enterprises' sustainable innovations7
The impact of open innovation on the environmental sustainability practices and international sales intensity nexus: A multicountry study7
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