OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Business Review is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does technology innovation in finance alleviate financing constraints and reduce debt-financing costs? Evidence from China	38
Confucian business model canvas in the Asia Pacific: a Yin-Yang harmony cognition to value creation and innovation	38
Innovation implementation in Asia-Pacific countries: a review and research agenda	37
Responsible tourism towards sustainable development: literature review and research agenda	35
The impact of authentic leadership on employee creativity in Vietnam: a mediating effect of psychological contract and moderating effects of subcultures	26
The role of Zhong-Yong thinking in business and management research: a review and future research agenda	22
Influencing mechanism of strategic flexibility on corporate performance: the mediating role of business model innovation	18
Employee voice mechanisms, transformational leadership, group prototypicality, and voice behaviour: a comparison of portfolio career workers in Japan, Korea and China	18
Exploring the role of institutions in Chinese OFDI: a systematic review and integrative framework	15
Innovation efficiency: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	15
How do managerial ties influence the effectuation and causation of entrepreneurship in China? The role of entrepreneurs’ cognitive bias	14
How informational-based readiness and social influence affect usage intentions of self-service stores through different routes: an elaboration likelihood model perspective	14
‘It’s not like we can charge for everything’: revenue models to capture value from smart services in Pacific Asia	14
Business models in the Asia-Pacific: dynamic balancing of multiple cultures, innovation and value creation	13
How business model innovation overcomes barriers during manufacturers’ servitization transformation: a case study of two top piano manufacturers in China	12
Dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial performance of Chinese start-ups: the mediating roles of managerial attitude towards risk and entrepreneurial behaviour	11
Empowering entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy: comparison of farmers with and without entrepreneurial experience in Taiwan	10
Prospects for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): implications, assessment and challenges	9
The role of leadership in human resource management: perspectives and evidence from Asia Pacific	9
The effect of innovation and leadership on performance in China and Vietnam	9
Exploring an inverted U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurial experience and Chinese new venture performance: the moderating role of environmental uncertainty	9
Introduction: the role and relevance of literature reviews and research in the Asia Pacific	9
Internal marketing: a review and future research agenda	9
Leveraging resources to achieve high competitive advantage for digital new ventures: an empirical study in China	9
The effects of formal and informal CEO power on firm risk in China: the mediating role of corporate social responsibility	8

Product modularity and performance in the global auto industry in China: the mediating roles of supply chain integration and firm relative positional advantage	8
User-driven business model innovation: an ethnographic inquiry into Toutiao in the Chinese context	7
The impact of the talent management mechanism and self-perceived talent status on work engagement: the case of Japan	7
Rising and thriving in the post COVID-19 era: a case study of COSMAX, a leader of the Korean cosmetic industry	7
The key elements of strategic leadership capabilities to the latecomer firm: the case of RT Mart’s success in the Chinese retail industry	7
The enigma of Chinese business: understanding corporate performance through managerial ties	7
Mediation of work engagement towards productive behaviour in remote work environments during pandemic: testing the job demands and resources model in Japan	6
The end of rent sharing: corporate governance reforms in South Korea	6
A meta-analysis of top management team compositional characteristics and corporate innovation in China	6
Exploring big data use to predict supply chain effectiveness in Chinese organizations: a moderated mediated model link	6
When does environmental corporate social responsibility promote managerial ties in China? The moderating role of industrial power and market hierarchy	6
Gendered melancholia as cultural branding: fandom participation in the K-pop community	6
Exploitative leadership and employee innovative behaviour in China: a moderated mediation framework	5
The mediating role of harmony in effective leadership in China: from a Confucianism perspective	5
A new global division of labour in venture capital flows: Coupang’s IPO success at the New York Stock Exchange	5
Fostering innovation and involvement among Korean workers in problem solving through trust and psychological safety: the role of paradoxical leader behaviours	5
Motivation and hindrance: the mixed blessing of paradoxical leader behaviour for workplace creativity in China	5
How does customer psychological empowerment affect value co-creation? An empirical study of travel agencies in Mainland China	5
High-performance work systems in mainland China: a review and research agenda	5
The moderating role of R&D intensity on the association between external embeddedness and subsidiary product innovation: evidence from Vietnam	5
How configuration theory explains performance growth and decline after Chinese firms cross-border M&A: using the fsQCA approach	5
Changing patterns of the teacher as a servant leader in Asia Pacific: a review and research agenda	4
Evidence-based policy making in Japan’s public expenditure: compatibility of fiscal health and investing for the future	4
Motivations for bribery and bribery in business: Vietnam past and present	4
Below-aspiration performance and risk-taking behaviour in the context of Taiwanese electronic firms: a contingency analysis	4
Leadership, performance and socialist reforms: how did reform leadership emerge and create change?	4
Overcoming the liability of foreignness in US capital markets: the case of Alibaba and Coupang	4
Motives behind Sino-Japanese strategic alliances in the new energy vehicles sector in the age of the Belt and Road Initiative	4
Does cooperative goal interdependence facilitate market orientation? A top management’s firm–customer perspective in China	4
Do the MNE’s global RD intensity and diversity boost its beneficial subsidiary reverse technology transfer? And how? In contingency with institutional distance	4
Top management support, green training and organization’s environmental performance: the electric power sector in Vietnam	4
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: challenges, doubts and legal implications	4
How does firm ownership concentration and female directors influence tax haven foreign direct investment? Evidence from Asia-Pacific and OECD countries	4
Comparing perceptions of leadership, innovation and performance in Asian SMEs	4
How do organizations deal with crisis? A case study on improvisational behaviours of Chinese companies during the COVID-19 epidemic	4
Empirical research on how social capital influence inter-organizational information systems value co-creation in China	4
Which executive characteristics influence risk-taking behaviours: evidence from Taiwanese companies	3
Exploring the effects of unethical pro-organizational behaviour on innovation strategy: an examination based on firm survey in China	3
Employee perceptions of pay equity and compensation factors: a study of Vietnamese state-owned enterprises	3
Leveraging organizational tenure to improve service performance: the role of relational coordination among frontline service workers in China	3
Power distance orientation and perceived insider status in China: a social identity perspective	3
Workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: insights from strategic human resource management in Mainland China	3
Entrepreneurs’ self-perceived social status and firms’ philanthropy: evidence from Chinese private firms	3
Strategic orientation, innovation, and the effects of entrepreneurial support mechanism in SMEs in South Korea: an application of subject-mechanism-performance congruence model	3
The impact of flexibility-oriented HRM systems on innovative behaviour in China: a moderated mediation model of dualistic passion and inclusive leadership	3
Sustainability in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: operating mechanisms and enterprise growth	3
Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions	3
Is there a gap between saying and doing in CSR? Cases from Asian firms	3
SMEs’ changing perspective on international trade credit risk management in China: a cultural values evolution approach	3
Attitude formation towards green products evidence in Indonesia: integrating environment, culture, and religion	3

Executive remuneration and firm financial performance: lessons from listed companies in Australia and implications for their APEC counterparts	3
The rise of China and contestation in global tax governance	3
Strategic orientation for Chinese firms in the digital economy: a business model process formalization perspective	3
The business model and innovation mix in the transition of contract manufacturers in the greater China region	3
Influence of information technology and marketing capabilities in achieving superior customer performance: evidence from Taiwan	3
Towards a new corporate responsibility and governance? Tax haven and other identity characteristics of Asia-Pacific multinational corporations	3
The role of leadership in human resource management: perspectives and evidence from China	3
Evolution path and critical influencing factors of performance management system: a longitudinal case study in China	3
Generation Z job seekers in Vietnam: CSR-based employer attractiveness and job pursuit intention	3
Belt and Road: a Chinese world order	3
K-pop music diffusion in Korea and East Asia: the convergence of visual technology and concrete narratives	3
The impact of contextual distance on the investment locations of Chinese multinationals in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative	3
Big data, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Asia Pacific: examples and international comparisons	3