OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of World Business is 18. 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
Unlocking international entrepreneurial opportunities: The impact of dynamic capabilities on creation and discovery	29
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
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	28
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	28
The digital transformation of international business: A conceptualization, multidisciplinary review, and research agenda	27
Artificial intelligence and international business: Theoretical challenges, strategic implications, and research agenda	27
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	27
Unlearning diversity management	26
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	25
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	23
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 comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	22
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	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
International business under sanctions	18
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	18
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