OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of World Business is 21. 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
Editorial Board	95
Editorial Board	93
Unlearning diversity management	91
Editorial Board	82
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
Unbundling the effects of host-country institutions on foreign subsidiary survival: A case for subsidiary heterogeneity	26
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
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	25
Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance	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