OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World Business is 9. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	178
The interface of market and nonmarket strategies: Political ties and strategic competitive actions	114
Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change	109
Editorial Board	100
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Unlearning diversity management	91
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The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia	77
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	68
Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management	66
‘How do firms reach out to foreign universities? Inventors’ personal characteristics and the multinational structure of firms’	65
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	63
The impact of cultural identity on cultural and language bridging skills of first and second generation highly qualified migrants	62
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	61
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	61
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	60
Global cities: A multi-disciplinary review and research agenda	57
Context matters: The signaling role of foreign bidders’ reputation in cross-border acquisition contests	55
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals	53
The distinct contribution of investment promotion agencies’ branch offices in bringing Chinese multinationals to Europe	42
Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries	40
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	40
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	39
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	39

Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	39
Why is export-oriented entrepreneurship more prevalent in some countries than others? Contextual antecedents and economic consequences	38
Beyond disciplinary silos: A systematic analysis of the migrant entrepreneurship literature	35
Managing socio-political risk at the subnational level: Lessons from MNE subsidiaries in Indonesia	33
An integrative approach to international inbound sources of firm-level innovation	32
Cultural diversity in top management teams: Review and agenda for future research	32
Editorial Board	31
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	31
Foreign buyout of international equity joint ventures in China: When does performance improve?	30
Editorial Board	30
The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries	30
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	30
Editorial Board	30
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	29
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	27
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	27
Temporal boundaries and expatriate staffing: Effects of parent–subsidiary work-time overlap	27
Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions, technological gaps, and innovation performance of Chinese multinationals	26
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces	26
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes	26
Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms	26
Practice creation in multinational corporations: Improvisation and the emergence of lateral knowledge	26
Unbundling the effects of host-country institutions on foreign subsidiary survival: A case for subsidiary heterogeneity	26
Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance	25
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	25
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	24
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	23
Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India	23
Leveraging Multisectoral Expertise and International Knowledge: Business Group Influence on Overseas Subsidiary Formation	23
Boundary-spanning coordination: Insights into lateral collaboration and lateral alignment in multinational enterprises	23
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	23
MNE market entry and social investment in battle-weary countries: Evidence from Heineken	22
Knowledge acquisition from host-country partners: The interplay of trust and legal safeguards	22
Exploring the next generation of international entrepreneurship	22
Multinationals’ misbehavior	21
The (COVID-19) pandemic and the new world (dis)order	21
Advantages of foreignness and accelerator selection: A study of foreign-born entrepreneurs	21
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	20
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	19
Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise	19
What happens abroad, stays abroad? Exploring how corporate social irresponsibility in domestic and international markets influences corporate reputation	19
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	19
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	19
International collaboration and innovation: Evidence from a leading Chinese multinational enterprise	18
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	18
Editorial Board	18
Female executives and multinationals’ support of the UN's sustainable development goals	18
Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry	18
How much does host country matter, really?	18
The role of context in SME internationalization – A review	17

From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams	17
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	17
Returnee managers as an asset for emerging market multinational enterprises: Chinese cross-border acquisitions (2008–2017)	16
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	16
Negative performance feedback, CEO power and internationalization	15
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	15
From cultural intelligence to workgroup inclusion through synchrony preference and perceived workgroup similarity	15
Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance	15
Regional resilience during a trade war: The role of global connections and local networks	14
To export or to FDI? A configurational approach to family firm internationalization	14
Quantification of cultural practices and diversity: An empirical experiment with generative artificial intelligence	14
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	14
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	14
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	14
Actor legitimation in emerging markets: A network-embedded process	13
Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward	13
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms	13
Liability of informality and firm participation in global value chains	13
The hows and whys of foreign operation mode combinations: The role of knowledge processes	13
Headhunter-assisted recruiting practices in foreign subsidiaries and their (dys)functional effects: An institutional work perspective	13
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda	13
Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status	12
Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs	12
The nature of innovation in global value chains	12
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	12
International business under sanctions	12
Performance feedback on sales growth goal and OFDI location choices for firms in emerging economies	12
Scaling digital and non-digital business models in foreign markets: The case of financial advice industry in the United States	12
The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts	12
‘If you use the right Arabic…’: Responses to special language standardization within the BBC Arabic Service’s linguascape	11
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	11
International business policy in an age of political turbulence	11
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	11
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots	11
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	10
Cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market MNEs revisited: Inductive evidence from a machine learning analysis	10
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts	10
Legal distance and entrepreneurial orientation of foreign subsidiaries: Evidence from Southeast Asia	10
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	10
Editorial Board	10
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Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals	9
Reducing freeloading in Global Virtual Teams: A quasi-experimental approach	9
“Generation Me”: An intra-nationally bounded generational explanation for convergence and divergence in personal vs. social focus cultural value orientations	9
Editorial Board	9