OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of World Business is 29. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	204
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	168
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	93
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	86
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	72
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	69
Socio-political legitimacy: An integrative and interdisciplinary review and agenda for theory development in unit and programmatic approaches	67
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	63
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	55
Institutional distance and foreign firms’ live streaming use in the host market	51
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	49
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	49
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	46
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	46
A hybrid approach to internationalization: An exploratory study of social enterprises	40
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	40
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	40
Orchestrating boundary spanning for sustainable value: The cross-sector work of multinational enterprises	40
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	39
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	38
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	37
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	37
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	35
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	33
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	32

Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	31
Editorial Board	30
Advancing international business research through artificial intelligence and machine learning applications	29
Unlocking international entrepreneurial opportunities: The impact of dynamic capabilities on creation and discovery	29
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	29