OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of World Business is 31. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	207
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	131
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	115
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	92
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	79
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	72
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	72
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	69
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	69
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	66
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	50
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	47
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	47
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	42
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	40
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	40
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	38
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	38
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	37
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	37
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	36
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	35
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	34
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	33
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	33

Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	33
Editorial Board	33
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	32
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	31
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	31
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	31