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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	193
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	118
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	114
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	111
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	93
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	88
Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms	87
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	82
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	70
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	70
Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments	69
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	67
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	65
Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale	64
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	61
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	47
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	45
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	43
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	42
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	41
Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	37
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	36
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	36
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	33
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	33

Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	32
Editorial Board	32
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	32
Addressing psychic distance and learning in international buyer-seller relationships: The role of firm exploration and asset specificity	31
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	31
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	30
Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity	30
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	30
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	30
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	29
Unlearning diversity management	29
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	28
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	28
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	28
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	27
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	27
Editorial Board	27
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
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	25
Editorial Board	24
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	24
Editorial Board	24
International business under sanctions	24
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	23
Relieving status anxiety: How low-status firms respond to international status-heterophilous relationships	23
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	23
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	23
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	23
Hierarchical modelling in international business research: Patterns, problems, and practical guidelines	23
Editorial Board	22
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	21
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	21
Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration: the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust	21
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	21