OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of World Business is 19. 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
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	69
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	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
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	38
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	38
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	37
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	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
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

Editorial Board	33
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	33
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	32
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	31
Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation	31
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	31
Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development	30
Unlearning diversity management	30
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	29
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	29
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	28
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	27
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	27
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	26
Editorial Board	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
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	24
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	24
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
Relieving status anxiety: How low-status firms respond to international status-heterophilous relationships	23
International business under sanctions	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
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	20
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20
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
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	19
Editorial Board	19
The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences	19