OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World Business is 7. 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
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	49
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	49
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	46
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	46
Orchestrating boundary spanning for sustainable value: The cross-sector work of multinational enterprises	40
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
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
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	37
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	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
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	29
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
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	28
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	28
Artificial intelligence and international business: Theoretical challenges, strategic implications, and research agenda	27
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	27
The digital transformation of international business: A conceptualization, multidisciplinary review, and research agenda	27
Unlearning diversity management	26
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	25
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	23
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	23
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	23
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	22
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	22
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	21
Editorial Board	21
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	21
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	21
Corporate military activities and key frontiers in international business research	21
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	20
Editorial Board	18
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	18
Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity	18
Editorial Board	18
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	18
Editorial Board	18
International business under sanctions	18
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	18
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	17
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences	17
Editorial Board	17
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research	17
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	17
Editorial Board	16
Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	16
The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia	16
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict	16
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	16
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	16
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	15
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms	14
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	14
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward	14
Perspective: Reconciling top-down with bottom-up institutional change: A co-evolutionary perspective for advancing the IB contribution to the SDGs	14
Editorial Board	14
How much does host country matter, really?	14
Exploring Corporate Philanthropy, Home Country Foreign Aid, and Country of Origin-Based Stigma for Multinational Enterprises: An Experimental Study	13

Political ideology and the multinational enterprise: Broadening the epistemological lens	13
Editorial Board	13
Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products	13
When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business	13
‘Caught in the middle’: Effects on and reactions of Vietnamese timber exporters in the context of US-China economic sanctions	13
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions	12
How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?	12
How trade sanctions impact MNE subsidiaries in Russia: Responses to legitimacy concerns and performance	11
The internationalization of digital platform-based firms: A systematic literature review and directions for future research	11
Poverty, internationalization, and environmental injustice: A postcolonial theoretical perspective	11
Learning and innovation of Chinese firms along the paths of “Bring In” to “Go Global”	11
Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach	11
Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter?	11
Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze?	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience	9
Editorial Board	9
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	8
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	8
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	8
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	8
From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams	7
Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward	7
A demand-based view of MNEs’ reverse innovation	7
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes	7
Political embeddedness and post-acquisition innovation in MNEs: The role of experiential learning	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Imputing missing values in IB research using endpoint-heterogeneous beta regression models: An application to Hofstede's LTO measures	7
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces	7
Multinational enterprises and greenhouse gas emissions: The dual reality of climate governance mechanisms	7