International Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of International Business Review is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring joint conformance to board independence and board gender diversity norms: An actor-centered configurational approach432
Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach199
Chief executive officer’s dark triad personality and firm's degree of internationalization: The mediating role of ambidexterity156
Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa134
Managing resource constraints through international networks: Capability development and incremental and radical innovation in emerging markets124
A novel model linking UN SDGs with international experience and firm performance120
Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions92
Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy80
Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress.73
Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most67
Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers60
Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?59
Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies54
The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model52
Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules52
Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows51
When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation48
Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions46
The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?45
Chinese SMEs’ location choice and political risk: The moderating role of legitimacy45
Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms43
Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions43
Multinationality and strategic dynamic capabilities during sustainable development goals adoption: Evidence from a natural experiment40
Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity40
Beyond economic considerations: The role of socioemotional wealth in family firm foreign exit decisions38
Diversity management and firms’ internationalization: Evidence from French SMEs37
Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors37
Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience37
A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research36
Editorial Board35
Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope34
The impact of formal and informal institutional distances on the strategic asset seeking motives of Chinese multinational enterprises: An analysis of patent and trademark acquisitions34
Why regional economic agreements matter more than multilateral and bilateral agreements: Evidence from trade and investment in East Asia34
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies33
Editorial Board33
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Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships32
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective32
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?32
Exploring one of the darker sides of expatriation: Chinese expatriates' experiences with petty corruption in Tanzania32
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors31
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns30
Corporate governance, finance, and global strategy30
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication30
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research29
Editorial Board29
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets29
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 model29
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Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions29
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock29
Does green attract green? The impact of place-based green policies on green FDI27
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization27
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn27
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion26
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships26
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures26
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?26
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms25
The predictive power of agency theory in a multipolar world25
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms25
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking25
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets25
How to shape internationalization: Footprint configurations of knowledge-intensive service firms24
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms24
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder24
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?23
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices23
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy22
Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image22
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence22
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm22
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective22
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China21
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms21
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach21
Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management21
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness21
What have we learned about the internationalization of digital platform firms? Orchestration, legitimation, and the endogenous role of institutions20
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions20
Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust20
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises20
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda20
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension20
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution20
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?20
A state-market interplay framework for strategic knowledge management in Chinese MNEs20
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature20
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions20
Impact of organizational culture on employee psychological safety perception: The pivotal role of trust in top management across 18 societies19
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation19
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions19
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations18
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms18
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms18
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance18
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business18
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance17
Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective17
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias17
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
Corruption and intrapreneurship17
CSR and stakeholder salience in MNE subsidiaries in emerging markets16
The regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive dimensions of the returnee opportunity and returnee liability: How institutional migration creates the two sides of the same coin16
When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A relational work context perspective16
Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration16
Religion and foreign direct investment16
Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination15
Contemporary challenges and the future of the multinational enterprise15
Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?15
Informal institutions’ influence on FDI flows: A configurational fsQCA analysis of corruption as part of the MNEs’ FDI motivation system15
Unveiling the dynamics of exporting firms: How social media shapes export costs and relationships15
Multinational enterprises (MNEs), heterogeneity in corporate social responsibility (CSR), and subsidiary employment in host countries: A signaling perspective15
Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?15
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports15
Overcoming the liability of foreignness: The effect of identity decoupling on acquirer’s post-acquisition performance15
Purpose versus profit: How institutions shape entrepreneurial success across countries15
Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms15
The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime15
The impact of inward foreign direct investment bans on the configuration of global value chains14
The legitimacy defeat of Huawei in the media: Cause, context, and process14
Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business14
Foreign company misconduct and how consumers’ punitive intent is influenced by country stereotypes and the perceived similarity between the foreign country and the home country14
Do technology-focused fast internationalizers’ performance measures change as they mature?14
A configurational approach for analyzing cultural values and performance in Global Virtual Teams14
Should I stay or should I go now? Understanding terrorism as a driver of institutional escapism14
The role of CSR committee characteristics on R&D investments14
Digital standardization vs. adaptation: Mitigating the liability of outsidership – A literature review14
Dynamic capability deployment: The roles of dominant logic and international entrepreneurial orientation13
MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach13
Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains13
CEO compensation, governance structure, and foreign direct investment in conflict-prone countries13
The micro-contextual conditions that influence host-country nationals’ decisions about horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises in China13
A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US13
Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry13
Unpacking unfair transaction experiences, competition, and imports in technology-intensive SMEs' FDI13
Multinationality of family firms: The impact of business group affiliation13
With a little help from my friends: Institutional obstacles, networking, and SME exporting in emerging European and Asian economies13
Government R&D support’s effects on export performance via innovation: An analysis of organizational motivators as moderators13
Pursuing headquarters’ attention: Foreign subsidiaries’ strategic issue selling12
How do virtual and relational ties affect international opportunity realization for emerging market born-global firms? A contingency model12
Ethics and international business research: Considerations and best practices12
Digital IB risks: A systematic literature review through internalisation lenses12
Editorial Board12
How does the negotiation between “me” and “we” in professional identity influence interpersonal horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises: A conceptual model12
Using trademarks to fend off import competition: Evidence from the top R&D-spending companies12
Looking back to look forward: Disruption, innovation and future trends in international human resource management12
The future of international business strategy research12
Divesting or keeping overseas subsidiary production under rising production costs and uncertain market demands in host countries12
Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History12
Multinational enterprises’ subsidiary density and subsidiary survival: An attention-based perspective12
CEOs’ regulatory focus and firm internationalization: The moderating effects of CEO overconfidence, narcissism and career horizon12
Key issues impacting European business in the 2020s12
The Tech Cold War, the multipolarization of the world economy, and IB research12
Caught in the crossfire: Multinational enterprises in the era of geopolitical tensions12
Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?11
The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future11
Women’s representation on boards, diversity practices, and internationalization: Evidence from greenfield investment11
Internationalization through social networks: A systematic review and future research agenda11
Internationalization and Private Equity Partnerships: Legal Origin Heterogeneity and Fund Performance11
Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research11
MNEs in crossfire: A critical review of global business-society tensions11
Editorial Board11
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology11
Revisiting the relationship between product and international diversification in new ventures: The moderating effect of effectuation processes10
Institutional quality and investment disputes in emerging and frontier economies10
Breaking trust? International partnership exit and learning about opportunities10
Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation10
Cross-border E-commerce, platform economy, and export product quality10
Sharing economy companies’ internationalization: A business ecosystem strategy10
Exploring relational norms in exporter-importer product innovation co-development: A qualitative study9
Turning decision-making logic into international performance among SMEs: Revealing the importance of international entrepreneurial marketing9
The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type9
Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation9
Unveiling the power of supplier-country image on B2B customers' perceptions: Beyond the product’s beauty9
Ownership choices of emerging market micromultinationals (mMNEs) under uncertainty: A real option approach9
Institutional environments and conflict between foreign investors and local communities in large-scale agricultural land acquisitions9
Export tax rebate and technological innovation9
Internalization theory and the global grand challenges9
More than just empathy: The influence of moral emotions on boycott participation regarding products sourced from politically contentious regions9
Corporate ownership types and internationalization strategies: The moderating role of home country capitalism9
Differences in legal origins and ownership share in cross-border mergers and acquisitions: International empirical evidence9
Bilateral geopolitical risk and equity ownership in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging-market firms: Non-market strategies as legitimacy buffers9
Post-entry internationalization of born globals: The role of dynamic capabilities in accelerating growth9
Small firms’ non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets9
Reliance on AI in augmented strategic decision-making: Navigating cultural and national dynamics9
Breaking the glass ceiling: The home-host diffusion of gender-equal practice in multinational corporations (MNCs)9
Editorial Board8
Political affinity and opportunism in global supply chain: The mediating role of contractual and relational governance8
Follow the mind or the heart? Asymmetric influences of affective versus cognitive country images on customer-service provider relationships8
The future of the theory of the multinational enterprise8
Intellectual property regimes and knowledge governance in MNEs: Expatriate staffing and R&D-manufacturing colocation8
Editorial Board8
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
Time orientation in languages and agency costs8
Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability8
Within-group differences: Differentiated Chinese expatriate-HCN interactions and the influence of human resource management practices8
Refugees’ employment: Adapting a structural inequality framework for multinational corporations8
Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows8
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