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 2021-08-01 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
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	38
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	38
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	37
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	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
Editorial Board	33
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
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	32
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	31
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	31
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	31
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	30
Unlearning diversity management	30
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	29
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	29
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	28
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	27
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	27
Editorial Board	26
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	26
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	25
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	25
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	24
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	24
Relieving status anxiety: How low-status firms respond to international status-heterophilous relationships	23
International business under sanctions	23
Editorial Board	23
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	23
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	23
Editorial Board	23
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	22
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	21
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	20
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	19
Editorial Board	19
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences	19
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	19
How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis	19
Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration: the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust	18
Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity	18
On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries	17
Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa	17
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	17
Editorial Board	17
Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research	17
Boundary-spanning coordination: Insights into lateral collaboration and lateral alignment in multinational enterprises	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
Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis	16
Multinationals’ misbehavior	15
The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies	15
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review	15
How much does host country matter, really?	15

Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research	15
Editorial Board	14
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms	14
Editorial Board	14
Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda	14
Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs	14
Editorial Board	13
Towards a behavioral theory of MNC response to political risk and uncertainty: The role of CEO wealth at risk	13
Lateral collaboration and boundary-spanning from a global leadership perspective: The case of global account managers	13
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward	13
Exploring Corporate Philanthropy, Home Country Foreign Aid, and Country of Origin-Based Stigma for Multinational Enterprises: An Experimental Study	13
Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts	13
When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business	13
Learning and innovation of Chinese firms along the paths of “Bring In” to “Go Global”	12
Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda	12
Multinational enterprise parent-subsidiary governance and survival	12
‘Caught in the middle’: Effects on and reactions of Vietnamese timber exporters in the context of US-China economic sanctions	12
How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?	12
Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products	12
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions	11
The internationalization of digital platform-based firms: A systematic literature review and directions for future research	11
Editorial Board	11
How trade sanctions impact MNE subsidiaries in Russia: Responses to legitimacy concerns and performance	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
The hows and whys of foreign operation mode combinations: The role of knowledge processes	10
Editorial Board	10
Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals	10
Editorial Board	10
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes	10
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	10
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰	10
Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience	10
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces	10
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context	10
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens	10
Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze?	10
‘If you use the right Arabic…’: Responses to special language standardization within the BBC Arabic Service’s linguascape	9
Imputing missing values in IB research using endpoint-heterogeneous beta regression models: An application to Hofstede's LTO measures	9
Liability of informality and firm participation in global value chains	9
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots	9
Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward	9
The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts	9
Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status	9