OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of World Business is 32. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	221
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	143
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	125
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	95
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	85
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	77
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	76
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	73
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	71
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	54
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	53
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	53
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	45
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	43
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	41
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	40
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	40
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	38
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	38
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	38
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	38
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	36
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	36
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	36
Editorial Board	35

Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	35
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	34
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	33
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	33
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	33
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	33
Unlearning diversity management	32
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	32