OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Multinational Business Review is 2. 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
How psychological perceptions and family dynamics shape necessity- and opportunity-based female entrepreneurship: the role of gender equality	87
Criminal multinational enterprises and host state relations: insights from transaction cost economics	26
Colonization and institutional distance: influences on equity participation strategies of emerging market multinational enterprises	17
Dark and bright repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic on international business: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	16
Connecting managers’ international work experience, advice networks, and subsidiary-unit performance: a social capital perspective	16
Towards green internationalisation: executives environmental protection experience and green outward foreign direct investment decisions	13
Overseas compliance risk prevention for multinational corporations in a law and economics perspective: empirical evidence from Chinese MNCs	12
To go green or not: the impact of competition intensity and global institutional diversity on multinational enterprises’ investments in dynamic green capabilities	11
Reducing the fallout: the role of managerial attention in tackling media reporting on corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing	11
Knowledge exploration in cross-border acquisitions: how does absorptive capacity matter?	11
Does state ownership mitigate political risk in foreign direct investments? Evidence from subsidiary-level data for Norwegian MNEs	10
Inter-state war, institutions and multinationals: insights from the Russian-Ukraine war	10
Multinationals’ value chain configuration for product diversification in emerging markets: Western firms in China	10
Product and business process innovation, competitive advantage and export performance	9
The relational embeddedness in the context of multinational subsidiaries: in search of new avenues	9
A conceptual multi-stakeholder model of social micro-franchising: building resilient communities of waste pickers in Latin America	8
Is there a relationship between environmental performance and outward FDI? A study of Chinese MNEs	8
A dark side of organizational resilience: Venezuelan migrant workers and multinational delivery platform companies in Colombia during the pandemic	8
Future directions of R&D internationalization in international business	7
How subsidiaries contribute to MNC’s resilience under global disruptions	7
A bibliometric analysis and future research opportunities in Multinational Business Review	6
Strategic internationalization decisions and dynamic capability deployment for the internationally growing firm (IGF)	6
Export duration and product innovations: do born globals learn by exporting differently?	6
Subnational variations in resilience strategies to adverse contexts in global value chains: evidence from Pakistani offshoring services providers	6
Stabilizing or destabilizing: the effect of institutional investors on stock return volatility in an emerging market	6

How do different types of institutions shape corporate environmental, social and governance performance?	5
Impact of innovation effort on exports from emerging market firms: limitations arising from complementary resource constraints	5
Towards environmental impact of inward foreign direct investment: the moderating role of varieties of democracy	5
The subsidiary strategising process for a competence-creating role	5
Home country influence in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms: a systematic review	5
Global fintech trends and their impact on international business: a review	5
Foreign divestment and its implications: past achievement and research agenda	5
A co-evolutionary approach to MNE-assisted industry development: Uruguay’s forest-based pulp sector	4
The scaling of game-changer business models to address societal grand challenges	4
International connectedness, governmental interventions and firms’ adaptation to exogenous shocks: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Politics, rumors and identity: how does a domestic firm challenge an MNE in the non-market environment amidst home–host political hostility?	4
FDI motives of emerging market multinationals and foreign subsidiary governance	4
Indigenous SMEs and nonmarket strategy: leveraging cultural capital, sustainability and Indigenous diplomacy in international business	4
Publisher’s note	3
Local or global innovation? The impact of R&D investments and training	3
The role played by trust in reverse knowledge transfer: the case of a Chinese acquisition in the UK	3
Internationalization and firm performance: moderating role of multi-stakeholder initiatives	3
Geopolitical tensions: risks and challenges for internationally scaling businesses	3
International political risk management: a review and decision-making framework	3
Analyzing the audit fees of cross-border IPO firms: evidence from Taiwan	3
The impact of home institutions on the internationalization of emerging market SMEs: a systematic review	3
International alliance networks, expansion modes and coopetition	3
ESG performance and the persistence of green innovation: empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	3
Ownership share in cross-border acquisitions: does high-tech status of the target matter?	3
Market exit and re-entry in a volatile emerging economy: a case study of Yamaha motorcycles in Pakistan	3
Re-examining Dunning’s investment development path: the contingent effect of adaptability and home-country institutions on OFDI from emerging economies	3
Advantage of foreignness in a digital world: role of long tail users	3
The role of headquarters in managing coopetition within MNCs: a tale of two paradoxes	3
Business against violence: assessing how business impacts peace	3
Board independence and firm internationalization: a meta-analysis	2
Unintended change of ownership structure and acquisition of IJVs: the effect of initial structural conditions	2
Exploring corporate strategies for inclusive development at the base of the pyramid in Brazil	2
The impact of foreign firm ownership on local renewal activities	2
Beware the puppeteers: the role of geopolitics in the bargaining dynamics between a Russian politically connected MNC and the country of Montenegro	2
Embeddedness creates knowledge: environmental competition, external relational embeddedness, and foreign subsidiary knowledge creation	2
Formal institutions, type of diversification and the diversification – performance relationship: a meta-analysis	2
Corrigendum: A conceptual multi-stakeholder model of social micro-franchising: building resilient communities of waste pickers in Latin America	2
Mimetic isomorphic pressure on foreign distribution entry mode choice	2
Reconciling qualitative and quantitative approaches within bibliometrics	2