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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Criminal multinational enterprises and host state relations: insights from transaction cost economics	97
How psychological perceptions and family dynamics shape necessity- and opportunity-based female entrepreneurship: the role of gender equality	73
Towards green internationalisation: executives environmental protection experience and green outward foreign direct investment decisions	18
Connecting managers’ international work experience, advice networks, and subsidiary-unit performance: a social capital perspective	15
To go green or not: the impact of competition intensity and global institutional diversity on multinational enterprises’ investments in dynamic green capabilities	12
Dark and bright repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic on international business: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	11
Overseas compliance risk prevention for multinational corporations in a law and economics perspective: empirical evidence from Chinese MNCs	11
Knowledge exploration in cross-border acquisitions: how does absorptive capacity matter?	10
Reducing the fallout: the role of managerial attention in tackling media reporting on corporate social irresponsibility in offshore outsourcing	10
Product and business process innovation, competitive advantage and export performance	9
Inter-state war, institutions and multinationals: insights from the Russian-Ukraine war	9
Does state ownership mitigate political risk in foreign direct investments? Evidence from subsidiary-level data for Norwegian MNEs	9
Is there a relationship between environmental performance and outward FDI? A study of Chinese MNEs	8
Multinationals’ value chain configuration for product diversification in emerging markets: Western firms in China	8
The relational embeddedness in the context of multinational subsidiaries: in search of new avenues	8
Export duration and product innovations: do born globals learn by exporting differently?	7
Future directions of R&D internationalization in international business	7
Prevalence of the born-global phenomenon in different countries: an integrated perspective	7
How subsidiaries contribute to MNC’s resilience under global disruptions	6
Stabilizing or destabilizing: the effect of institutional investors on stock return volatility in an emerging market	6
A dark side of organizational resilience: Venezuelan migrant workers and multinational delivery platform companies in Colombia during the pandemic	6
Subnational variations in resilience strategies to adverse contexts in global value chains: evidence from Pakistani offshoring services providers	5
Foreign divestment and its implications: past achievement and research agenda	5
A bibliometric analysis and future research opportunities in Multinational Business Review	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
Towards environmental impact of inward foreign direct investment: the moderating role of varieties of democracy	5
Strategic internationalization decisions and dynamic capability deployment for the internationally growing firm (IGF)	5
The subsidiary strategising process for a competence-creating role	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
Impact of innovation effort on exports from emerging market firms: limitations arising from complementary resource constraints	4
International connectedness, governmental interventions and firms’ adaptation to exogenous shocks: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
FDI motives of emerging market multinationals and foreign subsidiary governance	4
Market exit and re-entry in a volatile emerging economy: a case study of Yamaha motorcycles in Pakistan	3
The impact of home institutions on the internationalization of emerging market SMEs: a systematic review	3
Re-examining Dunning’s investment development path: the contingent effect of adaptability and home-country institutions on OFDI from emerging economies	3
Politics, rumors and identity: how does a domestic firm challenge an MNE in the non-market environment amidst home–host political hostility?	3
Analyzing the audit fees of cross-border IPO firms: evidence from Taiwan	3
The role played by trust in reverse knowledge transfer: the case of a Chinese acquisition in the UK	3
Indigenous SMEs and nonmarket strategy: leveraging cultural capital, sustainability and Indigenous diplomacy in international business	3
Publisher’s note	3
Local or global innovation? The impact of R&D investments and training	3
Advantage of foreignness in a digital world: role of long tail users	2
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research	2
Reconciling qualitative and quantitative approaches within bibliometrics	2
Formal institutions, type of diversification and the diversification – performance relationship: a meta-analysis	2
Business against violence: assessing how business impacts peace	2
International alliance networks, expansion modes and coopetition	2
Internationalization and firm performance: moderating role of multi-stakeholder initiatives	2
Geopolitical tensions: risks and challenges for internationally scaling businesses	2
Board independence and firm internationalization: a meta-analysis	2
The role of headquarters in managing coopetition within MNCs: a tale of two paradoxes	2
Ownership share in cross-border acquisitions: does high-tech status of the target matter?	2
ESG performance and the persistence of green innovation: empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	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