OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia Pacific Business Review is 1. 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
Shaping corporate culture for sustainable business success Shaping corporate culture for sustainable business success , written by Josef Herget, Berlin, Springer, 2023,	22
The business reinvention of Japan: how to make sense of the new Japan and why it matters	15
Zhongguancun model: driving the dual engines of science & technology and capital	14
The impact of public health emergency perception on psychological crisis in the Chinese context: the role of social support and psychological targeting	14
From Korea to the world: women’s role as peer-leaders in K-pop transnational online brand communities	12
The impacts of transformational leadership on emotional labour in Taiwanese private nonprofit long-term care institutions: the mediating role of psychological contract	11
K-pop’s internationalization in the product adaptation and the upstream music supply chain in Korea, China, Japan, and the West	10
Eyes everywhere: the influence of digital surveillance on employee innovation performance in China	10
Linking proactive and reactive helping behaviour to knowledge hiding: the moral licencing perspective from China	9
Executive remuneration and firm financial performance: lessons from listed companies in Australia and implications for their APEC counterparts	9
Exploring the use of offshore intermediary jurisdictions by Chinese MNEs for the purposes of ‘onward-journey’ transit FDI: implications for measuring and understanding Chinese MNE activity	9
Universities in the new normal: striving for a feasible utopia?	9
How does the prior experience of complementary entrepreneurs affect the perception of multisided platform affordance? Evidences from China	8
Entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurial performance: evidence from Chinese farmer entrepreneurs	8
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: challenges, doubts and legal implications	8
Digital technology and ESG performance in ecosystem-based business models: perspective of environmental regulation and green innovation in China	8
Ethical human resource management to decrease employees’ unethical behaviour in China: the role moral meaningfulness and ethical predisposition	8
After the storm: how Hong Kong can hold on to its status as a global business hub in the Asia-Pacific	8
Examining the follower-related antecedents and effects of servant leadership in the PRC and Hong Kong	8
Unlocking the potential of green human resource management in Korea: a comprehensive review	7
Charging ahead: strategic placement of electric vehicle charging stations in Thailand	7
Digital leadership within large South Korean firms	7
Co-evolution of AI-driven business models innovation and business ecosystems in Chinese cross-border e-commerce firm: an exploratory study based on a single case	7
Policy empowerment and social impact: empirical evidence from the policy for Chinese specialized, refined, differential and innovative ‘little giant’ enterprises	7
From mine to ours: a dynamic process model in developing ethical culture – the case of Alibaba	6

All in the same key? How state policy pressure and local fiscal pressure jointly shape Chinese firms’ OFDI within Belt and Road initiative	6
Workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: insights from strategic human resource management in Mainland China	6
Proactive market orientation towards export performance within SMEs: a comparative study between the US and South Korea	6
Financial reporting comparability, pay-performance sensitivity, and the role of information environment: evidence from Taiwan	6
K-pop music diffusion in Korea and East Asia: the convergence of visual technology and concrete narratives	6
The rise of China and contestation in global tax governance	5
Reforming Japanese capitalism: introduction	5
Overcoming the liability of foreignness in US capital markets: the case of Alibaba and Coupang	5
Digital technology and enterprise knowledge management: literature review and theoretical framework construction	5
Exploring the impact of team psychological capital on employee green innovation within the ecosystem-oriented business models in China	5
Entrepreneurs’ self-perceived social status and firms’ philanthropy: evidence from Chinese private firms	5
Business models in the Asia-Pacific: dynamic balancing of multiple cultures, innovation and value creation	5
Remedying Japan’s deficient investment in people	5
Has Japan’s corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes	5
How does family-supportive supervision influence work-family conflict in China? The role of boundary control and empowerment-focused HRM	5
The profits and perils of passion in entrepreneurship: stoking the fires and banking the coals	4
How configuration theory explains performance growth and decline after Chinese firms cross-border M&A: using the fsQCA approach	4
Top management support, green training and organization’s environmental performance: the electric power sector in Vietnam	4
Own your day: new light on the mastery of managing in the middle	4
Expatriate managers and cross-cultural leadership in China: research and practice in leading and managing Chinese employees Expatriate managers and cross-cultural leadership in China: r	4
The impact of the talent management mechanism and self-perceived talent status on work engagement: the case of Japan	4
The international strategy for Korean pop music: what makes K-pop listed on Billboard Hot 100?	4
The economy of the Sino–US conflict: its impact on Chinese firms listed in the US and Hong Kong as a financial hub	4
Three-way interaction effect of specialist CEOs, structural inertia, and environmental uncertainty on firm performance: evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry	4
Effects of talent status and leader-member exchange on innovative work behaviour in talent management in Japan	4
What is not an effective K-pop marketing practice: Korean exports riding on the Hallyu wave	4
The role of business models in the sustainable transition of shared mobility services in China and South Korea	4
‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanization	4
Are government subsidies or preferential listing policies better for the market performance of tech firms? Evidence from Korea	4
Comparing capitalisms for an unknown future Comparing capitalisms for an unknown future , by Gordon Redding, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 92 pp., $22 (ha	4
Research into the driving mechanisms and pathways of process digitization: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of Chinese enterprises	3
How do global institutional pressures influence the adoption of ESG committees in South Korea?	3
Choosing textbooks for business and management education in Japan: buy, create, or translate?	3
Towards ecosystem-oriented business models in the Asia Pacific: dialectical dynamics of digital technologies, nature, and human wellbeing	3
Attitude formation towards green products evidence in Indonesia: integrating environment, culture, and religion	3
The influence of flexible work arrangements on innovative employee behaviour in China: a perspective of person-job fit	3
Cross-market innovation: the dynamics of latecomer catching-up model from new Chinese electric vehicle OEMs	3
CSR policies and practices of Korean foreign subsidiaries: institutional duality in emerging economies	3
Reducing the adverse effects of compulsory citizenship behaviour on employee innovative behaviour via AI usage in China	3
Does ESG performance enhance the financial performance and valuation of Chinese private enterprises? The moderating role of political connection and state ownership	3
Exploring big data use to predict supply chain effectiveness in Chinese organizations: a moderated mediated model link	3
Towards ecosystem-oriented business models in the Asia Pacific: dialectical dynamics of digital technologies, nature and human wellbeing	3
Will Alibaba’s additional financial service contribute to sellers’ satisfaction and loyalty during the pandemic? Evidence from Taobao sellers	3
The impact of management control systems on employees’ behavior during remote work	3
Small and medium enterprises, law and business: uncertainty and justice	3
Are ‘couple partners’ always good for business? Unpacking the curvilinear relationship between copreneur power gaps and firm performance in China	3
Adult learners’ online distance learning experience in postgraduate business programme: a qualitative study in a public university in Malaysia	3
Transcending tradition: reimagining business education in the VUCA world	3
Father–daughter succession in family business: a cross-cultural perspective	3
AI types and organizational implications in various task contexts: a quantitative review from China	3

Beyond binary: exploring the interplay of China’s digital transformation and firm performance through dual mechanism analysis	3
All or nothing: ambivalent acculturation strategies and job satisfaction of bicultural migrants in South Korea	3
Collaborative intelligence achieved from AI-enabled recruitment: a case study of POSCO in South Korea	3
Power distance orientation and perceived insider status in China: a social identity perspective	2
Generation Z job seekers in Vietnam: CSR-based employer attractiveness and job pursuit intention	2
The brand dilemma of Chinese employees: the positive and negative effects of personal brand equity on voice behaviour	2
The effects of differential organizational culture types on firm and individual performance in Eastern and Western cultural countries including China and the United States: a meta-analysis	2
Loneliness during work from home: the case of Chinese workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Strategic priorities for regional power connectivity in Asia in the overlapping of subregional initiatives and China’s global energy interconnection	2
Is there a gap between saying and doing in CSR? Cases from Asian firms	2
In the spotlight: Alibaba and Coupang	2
The shadow of a departing CEO: outsider succession and strategic change in a business group	2
Decisions on subnational locations in China during the early years of WTO membership: evidence from the experience of Taiwanese affiliates	2
The influence of the fit between strategic human resource management and CEO strategic leadership behaviours on organizational effectiveness in China	2
Impact of emergencies and supply chain resilience on corporate financial decision-making: an empirical analysis of Chinese manufacturing firms	2
Handbook of distance education	2
Technological innovation capacity of MNEs in China: studying the cross-cultural effects	2
Does brain gain enhance firm value? Evidence from China	2
Enterprises, industry and innovation in the People’s Republic of China: questioning socialism from Deng to the trade and tech war	2
Innovation-oriented HRM, TMT reflexivity and organizational change in China: the moderated mediation effect of CEO leader mindfulness	2
Impact of dual-class share structure: Alibaba IPO success analysis	2
The effects of gender diversity and cognitive diversity on team performance in Japanese R&D teams including the effect of shared leadership as a moderator	2
Forming managers’ exploitation and exploration from the interplay of managers’ formal and informal networks in China: a moderated mediation model	2
Do grateful employees take charge more in China? A joint moderating effect model	2
Gendered melancholia as cultural branding: fandom participation in the K-pop community	2
The end of rent sharing: corporate governance reforms in South Korea	2
East Asia in transition	2
China and the WTO: why multilateralism still matters China and the WTO: why multilateralism still matters , by Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir, Princeton and Oxford,	2
Developments in key aspects of business and management in the Asia Pacific: human resources, leadership, ethics and entrepreneurship	2
Ethical leadership in business: why it matters and how it is achieved Rethinking leadership for a green world , edited by Andrew Taylor, Routledge, 2022, xiv + 418 pp.,	2
Global expansion with takeovers and value creation with integration in China: a case study of Alibaba and Lazada	2
Leveraging resources to achieve high competitive advantage for digital new ventures: an empirical study in China	2
Ecosystem-oriented business model design: a multi-case comparative analysis based on Chinese e-commerce enterprises	1
Beyond the gender gap in Japan	1
Leave or not to leave? The impact of managerial work-life support and work engagement on the outcomes of work-to-life conflict for China’s new generation employees	1
A new global division of labour in venture capital flows: Coupang’s IPO success at the New York Stock Exchange	1
‘Divide and rule’: employment strategies of Chinese suppliers in supply chain relocation	1
The role of internal control and digital transformation between political connections and financial performance: evidence from China	1
Entrepreneurship in Korea: from chaebols to start-ups	1
Implementing global corporate social responsibility locally: the example of multinational enterprises and international joint ventures in Myanmar	1
Public sector management	1
Human capital, growth, and competitiveness of Philippine MSMEs: the mediating role of social capital	1
High-quality development of family businesses in the post-epidemic era under the moderating effect of the business environment in China	1
The influence of digital capabilities on the export performance of SMEs: evidence from China	1
Two sources of influence: a conditional trickle-down model of service performance in China	1
Human vs ChatGPT – language of advertising in beauty products advertisements	1
The globalization of postcolonial pop music: putting the success of the K-pop industries into theoretical perspectives	1
Below-aspiration performance and risk-taking behaviour in the context of Taiwanese electronic firms: a contingency analysis	1
Hallyu marketing from Korea: female universalism as an alternative performing myth among global fans	1
Designing a Japanese university for the Asian Century: discovery, harmony, inspirationThe design of everyday things, written by Don Norman, New York, Basic Books, 2013, xviii + 347 pp., £12.70	1
Assessing the interrelationships of sustainability drivers in the liner shipping industry: a South Korean perspective	1
When the window of opportunity opens: how does open search impact the business model design of digital startups?	1
Innovation and entrepreneurship in East Asia during the digital era: post-pandemic prospects	1
Trading as usual? Navigating Hong Kong’s roles in global trade architectures	1
The influence of founders’ human capital on the performance of new technology-based firms in China, South Korea and Japan: an exploratory study	1
A study on artificial intelligence orientation and new venture performance	1
Seeking for better performance: a synergy effect of algorithmic and leader management transparency on employee knowledge seeking behaviour and performance in China	1
Advantage China: agent of change in an era of global disruption Advantage China: agent of change in an era of global disruption , by Jeremy Garlick, London, Bloomsbury P	1
Research on the multi-factor driving paths of Chinese science-technology talents’ career calling: an ability-motivation-opportunity perspective	1
Can virtual ambassadors sustain Chinese traditional brands? Understanding their effectiveness from cognitive, emotional, and behavioural perspectives	1
Motivation and hindrance: the mixed blessing of paradoxical leader behaviour for workplace creativity in China	1
CSR reporting and the Belt and Road Initiative’s sustainable development: evidence from Chinese multinational enterprises CSR reporting and the Belt and Road Initiative: implementation	1
Cross-cultural legitimacy for orchestrating ecosystem-based business models in China: a Yin-Yang dialectical systems view	1
Challenge and hindrance: Yin and Yang paths of AI usage’s effects on Chinese employee innovative behaviour	1
A new understanding of Chinese luxury consumers’ spending surge: role of pandemic-related negative emotions	1
Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: narratives from our quarter	1
ESG performance and the ecosystem-based business model innovation: evidence from Chinese firms	1
Driving brand advocacy in higher education marketing: an integrative perspective on China students studying overseas	1
Three-tier SME internationalization process model: a Vietnam study on the relationship between managerial capacity, innovation strategies and technological and innovation leadership	1
Alibaba and Coupang in the spotlight	1
Hierarchical business value of post-adoption cross-border e-commerce assimilation towards innovation performance: evidence from Malaysian manufacturing SMEs	1
Antidumping investigations, executive international experience, and outbound cross-border mergers and acquisitions: evidence from China	1
Evolution path and critical influencing factors of performance management system: a longitudinal case study in China	1
Do female family directors affect corporate social responsibility in Chinese family firms?	1
From dichotomy towards inclusion: whether and how Korean shipbuilding stakeholders are integrated through social contracts	1
The moderating role of R&D intensity on the association between external embeddedness and subsidiary product innovation: evidence from Vietnam	1
Investigating the constituent elements of strategy-as-practice in the business context of Thailand: an exploratory study	1
Effects of high-performance work system on team ambidexterity in China: a dual path model based on emergence perspective	1
People centric innovation ecosystem	1
Digitalization of business models, knowledge management and green technology innovation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises: a mixed analysis based on the Haier COSMOPlat ecosystem	1