OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Business Review is 15. 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
Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies	30
Toward fairer global reward: Lessons from international non-governmental organizations	30
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	29
International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets	29
Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions	28
Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research	28
MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?	27
Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity	27
The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns	26
Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors	26
Global value chains and the environmental sustainability of emerging market firms: A systematic review of literature and research agenda	26
What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective	25
Editorial Board	25
Portfolio characteristics of outward foreign direct investment and dynamic performance of emerging economy firms: An option portfolio perspective	25
Evaluating MNEs’ role in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The importance of innovative partnerships	25
Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication	25
Editorial Board	24
Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Three experiments on foreign language anxiety and use, and divergent and convergent thinking	23
How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets	23
Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization	23
Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships	23
Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn	23
The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock	22
The internationalization process: A contextual analysis of Indian ibusiness firms	22
Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms	22
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 model	22
Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion	22
Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures	22
Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder	21
The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm	21
Valuation uncertainty, home and host market uncertainty, and cross-border seasoned equity offerings	21
COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence	21
Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices	21
Assessing the effects of policies on China’s outward foreign direct investment	21
The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?	21
Underperformance duration and R&D internationalization: Institutional contingencies in an emerging economy	20
Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach	20
What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?	20
The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China	20
Home country adverse political shocks and cross-border mergers and acquisitions financial performance of politically connected emerging market firms	20
Social support abroad: How do self-initiated expatriates gain support through their social networks?	20
Global account management: Knowledge resources and capabilities for relationship management	19
Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature	19

Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image	19
Making sense of dynamic capabilities in international firms: Review, analysis, integration, and extension	19
Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective	19
Editorial Board	19
The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions	19
The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness	19
The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains	18
Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms	18
Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation	18
The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises	18
Nearby or faraway? Determinants of target selection in family firm acquisitions	18
Pattern of information technology use and relationship learning in international customer-supplier relationships	17
Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions	17
Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution	17
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms	17
Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?	17
Is there an advantage of emergingness? A politico-regulatory perspective	17
Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda	17
Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations	16
Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business	16
Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias	16
Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms	16
International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance	16
An implicit leadership theory examination of cultural values as moderators of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ task performance	16
The efficacy of marketing skills and market responsiveness in marketing performance of emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets: The moderating role of competitive intensity	16
Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?	15
Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms	15
Shadow of the giant: How global value chain participation influences the knowledge structure of SMEs	15
Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration	15
Linking inward/outward FDI and exploitation/exploration strategies: Development of a framework for SMEs	15
Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors	15
Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?	15
Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination	15
Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations	15