OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of World Business is 30. 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
Editorial Board	193
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	118
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	114
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	111
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	93
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	88
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	87
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	82
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	70
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	70
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	69
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	67
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	65
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	64
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	61
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	47
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	45
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	43
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	42
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	41
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	37
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	36
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	36
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	33
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	33

Editorial Board	32
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	32
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	32
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	31
Addressing psychic distance and learning in international buyer-seller relationships: The role of firm exploration and asset specificity	31
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	30
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	30
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	30
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	30