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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy296
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach146
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance119
Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets100
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity97
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa85
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 conditions75
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy70
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions60
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most57
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers57
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 economies43
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows41
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation40
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules39
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model39
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity39
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions39
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms38
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 acquisitions31
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 experience29
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies29
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research29
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs29
Editorial Board28
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors28
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns28
The impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the strategic asset seeking motives of Chinese multinational enterprises: An analysis of patent and trademark acquisitions28
Toward fairer global reward: Lessons from international non-governmental organizations27
Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity27
Editorial Board27
Corporate governance, finance, and global strategy27
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication27
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions27
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock26
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors26
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships26
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking26
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets26
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?26
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research26
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective26
Editorial Board25
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships25
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms25
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 model25
Editorial Board25
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn25
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms25
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization25
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?24
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets24
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion24
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures24
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?23
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence23
Social support abroad: How do self-initiated expatriates gain support through their social networks?23
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy23
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices23
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder22
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm22
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms22
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness21
Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image21
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective21
Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management21
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions21
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China20
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach20
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms20
Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust20
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions19
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions19
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises19
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension19
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance19
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation19
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature19
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations17
Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors17
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?17
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms17
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations17
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business17
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda17
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution17
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs17
Is there an advantage of emergingness? A politico-regulatory perspective17
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias17
Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration16
Corruption and intrapreneurship16
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance16
Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?16
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms16
Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination16
Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective15
Religion and foreign direct investment15
Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?15
CSR and stakeholder salience in MNE subsidiaries in emerging markets15
When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A relational work context perspective15
A vulnerable victim or a tacit participant? Extending the field of multinationals and corruption research15
A systematic review of the relationship between international diversification and innovation: A firm-level perspective15
Informal institutions’ influence on FDI flows: A configurational fsQCA analysis of corruption as part of the MNEs’ FDI motivation system15
Purpose versus profit: How institutions shape entrepreneurial success across countries14
Digital standardization vs. adaptation: Mitigating the liability of outsidership – A literature review14
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports14
Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business14
Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms14
Unveiling the dynamics of exporting firms: How social media shapes export costs and relationships14
The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime14
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
A configurational approach for analyzing cultural values and performance in Global Virtual Teams13
Do technology-focused fast internationalizers’ performance measures change as they mature?13
The legitimacy defeat of Huawei in the media: Cause, context, and process13
The role of CSR committee characteristics on R&D investments13
A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US13
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
Should I stay or should I go now? Understanding terrorism as a driver of institutional escapism13
Dynamic capability deployment: The roles of dominant logic and international entrepreneurial orientation12
Consumer dispositions: Meanings and non-meanings of outgroup favourability12
Unpacking unfair transaction experiences, competition, and imports in technology-intensive SMEs' FDI12
MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach12
Overcoming informal barriers to trade: Immigrant educational attainment vs. network competence12
Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry12
Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains11
The micro-contextual conditions that influence host-country nationals’ decisions about horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises in China11
Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History11
CEO compensation, governance structure, and foreign direct investment in conflict-prone countries11
Government R&D support’s effects on export performance via innovation: An analysis of organizational motivators as moderators11
Editorial Board11
The Tech Cold War, the multipolarization of the world economy, and IB research11
Divesting or keeping overseas subsidiary production under rising production costs and uncertain market demands in host countries11
With a little help from my friends: Institutional obstacles, networking, and SME exporting in emerging European and Asian economies11
Ethics and international business research: Considerations and best practices11
The paradox and change of Russian cultural values11
Pursuing headquarters’ attention: Foreign subsidiaries’ strategic issue selling10
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
Breaking trust? International partnership exit and learning about opportunities10
Facilitating factors in the cross-cultural transfer of management practices: The case of a German multinational in Brazil10
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology10
Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research10
Women’s representation on boards, diversity practices, and internationalization: Evidence from greenfield investment10
How does the negotiation between “me” and “we” in professional identity influence interpersonal horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises: A conceptual model10
Looking back to look forward: Disruption, innovation and future trends in international human resource management10
How do virtual and relational ties affect international opportunity realization for emerging market born-global firms? A contingency model10
Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals10
Outsidership, network positions and cooperation among internationalizing SMEs: An industry evolutionary perspective10
Editorial Board9
Cross-border E-commerce, platform economy, and export product quality9
Sharing economy companies’ internationalization: A business ecosystem strategy9
The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type9
Small firms’ non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets9
Contraction under minimum wages? Operational and financial advantages of multinational subsidiaries in China9
The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future9
Internationalization through social networks: A systematic review and future research agenda9
Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation9
The indirect effect of online marketing capabilities on the international performance of e-commerce SMEs9
Editorial Board9
Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?9
Revisiting the relationship between product and international diversification in new ventures: The moderating effect of effectuation processes9
Turning decision-making logic into international performance among SMEs: Revealing the importance of international entrepreneurial marketing9
Institutional quality and investment disputes in emerging and frontier economies9
Follow the mind or the heart? Asymmetric influences of affective versus cognitive country images on customer-service provider relationships8
Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation8
Corporate ownership types and internationalization strategies: The moderating role of home country capitalism8
Manage the value and liability of offshoring innovation8
Institutional environments and conflict between foreign investors and local communities in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions8
Intellectual property regimes and knowledge governance in MNEs: Expatriate staffing and R&D-manufacturing colocation8
Ownership choices of emerging market micromultinationals (mMNEs) under uncertainty: A real option approach8
Unveiling the power of supplier-country image on B2B customers' perceptions: Beyond the product’s beauty8
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
Post-entry internationalization of born globals: The role of dynamic capabilities in accelerating growth8
Refugees’ employment: Adapting a structural inequality framework for multinational corporations8
Breaking the glass ceiling: The home-host diffusion of gender-equal practice in multinational corporations (MNCs)8
Exploring relational norms in exporter-importer product innovation co-development: A qualitative study8
Cultural dimensions and corporate controversies: The moderating role of corporate governance8
Engaging informal institutions through corporate political activity: Capabilities for subnational embeddedness in emerging economies7
Editorial Board7
The choice of master international franchising – A modified transaction cost model7
International network formation, home market institutional support and post-entry performance of international new ventures7
Understanding professional migrant women’s successful career progression within the Big Four in Luxembourg7
The determinants of multinational enterprises' sustainable innovations7
Family-centred non-economic goals and the internationalisation of family firms: Evidence from Australia7
Is environmental labeling certification a “green passport” for firm exports in emerging economies? Evidence from China7
Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability7
Compared to whom? Performance feedback and foreign divestment of MNEs7
International experience of a manager; toward a new conceptualization7
Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems7
Triple-loop springboarding and simulacrum enterprises: Financialization and new forms of emerging economy educational international businesses7
Editorial Board7
Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows7
The impact of open innovation on the environmental sustainability practices and international sales intensity nexus: A multicountry study7
Within-group differences: Differentiated Chinese expatriate-HCN interactions and the influence of human resource management practices7
Political affinity and opportunism in global supply chain: The mediating role of contractual and relational governance7
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