Journal of World Business
1997 - 2025
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Volume 60, issue 2, 2025
- An advanced meta-ranking for the expanding international business field – Journal status and future trajectories
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- Heinz Tüselmann, Rudolf R. Sinkovics and Grigory Pishchulov
- Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach
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- Tina C. Ambos, Ulf Andersson, Rian Drogendijk, Randi Lunnan, Pamela Sharkey Scott and Yildiz, H.Emre
- Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms
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- Alex Veen, Jeroen Meijerink, Tom Barratt, Anne Keegan and Caleb Goods
Volume 60, issue 1, 2025
- The home country effect on between- and within-firm performance differences
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- Daniel S. Andrews, Stav Fainshmidt and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
- Competent suppliers as a missing link: A supplier-centered view on cascading private labor governance in global value chains
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- Jinsun Bae, Joonkoo Lee, Sun Wook Chung and Hyunji Kwon
- Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system
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- Rui Hou and Huaichuan Rui
- International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research
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- Eleni Tsougkou, John W. Cadogan, Nathaniel Boso, Ian R. Hodgkinson, João S. Oliveira, Tommi Laukkanen, Nahid Yazdani and Vicky M. Story
Volume 59, issue 6, 2024
- Antecedents and performance consequences of high-potential programs: The role of firms’ cultural environment
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- Benjamin Philipp Krebs and Rüdiger Kabst
- Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products
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- Noman Shaheer, Liang Chen, Jingtao Yi, Sali Li and Huiwen Su
- The impact of cultural identity on cultural and language bridging skills of first and second generation highly qualified migrants
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- Cristina Popescu and Markus Pudelko
- Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry
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- Sangbum Ro, Daekwan Kim, Bruce T. Lamont and David Maslach
- ‘Caught in the middle’: Effects on and reactions of Vietnamese timber exporters in the context of US-China economic sanctions
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- Quyen Thao Dang, Hussain Gulzar Rammal, Pervez N. Ghauri, Pavlina Jasovska and Santiago Velasquez
- Advantages of foreignness and accelerator selection: A study of foreign-born entrepreneurs
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- Mohammad Fuad, Mohsen Mohaghegh and Shavin Malhotra
- Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes
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- Htwe Htwe Thein, Anna Grosman, Sergey Sosnovskikh and Anton Klarin
Volume 59, issue 5, 2024
- International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise
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- Peter J. Buckley, Peter Enderwick, Linda Hsieh and Oded Shenkar
- Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens
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- Robert J. Pidduck, Daniel R. Clark and Zhang, Yejun (John)
- The South African economic elite and ownership changes in foreign multinationals’ assets during and after Apartheid-era sanctions
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- Helena Barnard and John M. Luiz
- Reducing freeloading in Global Virtual Teams: A quasi-experimental approach
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- Vas Taras, Matthew McLarnon, Piers Steel and Thomas O'Neil
- Regional resilience during a trade war: The role of global connections and local networks
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- Canfei He, Jing Li, Wenyu Wang and Peng Zhang
- The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia
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- Marina Latukha, Ilan Alon, Nikita Kuleshov and Vlad Vaiman
Volume 59, issue 4, 2024
- Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets
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- Juan Bu, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Yadong Luo and Stephanie Lu Wang
- Language and identity: The dynamics of linguistic clustering in multinational enterprises
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- Komal Kalra and Wade Danis
- Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰
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- Tianyou Hu, Shu Yu and Andrew Delios
- The mediated and moderated effects of IEO on international performance: An investigation of emerging market SMEs
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- Linda Hui Shi, J. Brock Smith, Shaoming Zou, Yuqing Han and Kang Frank Tan
- Context matters: The signaling role of foreign bidders’ reputation in cross-border acquisition contests
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- Weiting Zheng, Yaqin Zheng, Jingtao Yi, Noman Shaheer and Sali Li
- Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas
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- Andrew Delios, Jiatao Li, Andreas P.J. Schotter and Demetris Vrontis
Volume 59, issue 3, 2024
- Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages
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- Vikrant Shirodkar, Rishika Nayyar and Sumati Varma
- Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership
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- Nan Zhou
- Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces
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- Hilla Back and Rebecca Piekkari
- Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective
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- Philipp Volkmer, Matthias Baum and Nicole Coviello
- Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms
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- Sylvie Chetty, Peter Gabrielsson and Mika Gabrielsson
- Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward
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- Jean-Luc Arregle, Andrea Calabrò, Michael A. Hitt, Liena Kano and Christian Schwens
- Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts
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- Shengwen Li and Anthony Goerzen
- State ownership and Chinese private firms’ OFDI in developed economies
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- En Xie, Fanshu Li, Zhan Wu and Vikas Kumar
- From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams
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- Gouri Mohan, Minna Paunova and Yih-Teen Lee
Volume 59, issue 2, 2024
- To export or to FDI? A configurational approach to family firm internationalization
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- Maria Lapeira, Georges Samara, Sumit Kundu and Arun Kumaraswamy
- The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts
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- Ramzi Fathallah and Michael Carney
- Cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market MNEs revisited: Inductive evidence from a machine learning analysis
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- Jianhong Zhang, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Chaohong Zhou and Shengyang Zhou
- Unlearning diversity management
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- Aneta Hamza-Orlinska, Jolanta Maj, Amanda Shantz and Joana Vassilopoulou
- Overcoming the liability of origin by hiring foreign independent directors: Evidence from Chinese firms' cross-border M&As
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- Lin Yu, Tao Bai, Jingwei Yin and Xue Tan
Volume 59, issue 1, 2024
- From cultural intelligence to workgroup inclusion through synchrony preference and perceived workgroup similarity
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- Amy E. Randel and Valerie Alexandra
- The interplay of international alliance and subsidiary portfolios: Implications for firms’ innovation and financial performance
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- Mariia Koval, Viacheslav Iurkov and Gabriel Benito
- Speaking of diversity: Can linguistic structural differences explain cultural values toward equity, diversity, and inclusion across the globe?
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- Karoline M. Summerville, Victor Zitian Chen, Amir Shoham and Vasyl Taras
- Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors
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- Nikolaos Kavadis, Niels Hermes, Jana Oehmichen, Alessandro Zattoni and Stav Fainshmidt
- Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter?
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- Sihong Wu, Francesco Chirico, Di Fan, Jiayan Ding and Yiyi Su
Volume 58, issue 6, 2023
- Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment
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- Mihaela Dimitrova, John Kammeyer-Mueller, Margaret A. Shaffer and Marlene Gruber
- Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions
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- Luciano Ciravegna, David Ahlstrom, Snejina Michailova, Chang Hoon Oh and Ajai Gaur
- Reconsidering, refashioning, and reconceptualizing research methodology in international business
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- Andrew Delios, Catherine Welch, Bo Nielsen, Herman Aguinis and Chris Brewster
- Family firm internationalization and top management team collaboration: Roles, emotional attachment, and risk perceptions
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- Julia de Groote, Moritz Feninger and Nadine Kammerlander
Volume 58, issue 5, 2023
- Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence
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- Samuel Davies, Fabian Jintae Froese, Daniel Han Ming Chng and Fedor Portniagin
- Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth
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- Maksim Belitski, Jeff Martin, Tatiana Stettler and William Wales
- Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change
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- Ivan Miroshnychenko, Kimberly A. Eddleston and Alfredo De Massis
- Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory
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- Ravi S. Ramani and Herman Aguinis
- CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs
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- Marguerite Eid and Mark Loon
- Do liberal and conservative-leaning CEOs approach de-internationalization differently? Zooming in on the onset of the 2022 Russia/Ukraine crisis
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- Yannick Thams and Luis Alfonso Dau
Volume 58, issue 4, 2023
- What happens abroad, stays abroad? Exploring how corporate social irresponsibility in domestic and international markets influences corporate reputation
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- Giulio Nardella, Irina Surdu and Stephen Brammer
- A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies
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- Jasmin Mahadevan and Fiona Moore
- Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry
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- Pavlina Jasovska, Hussain G. Rammal, Carl Rhodes and Danielle Logue
- International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots
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- Francesca Ciulli and Ans Kolk
- Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect
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- Nuno Oliveira, Fabrice Lumineau and Africa Ariño
- Scaling digital and non-digital business models in foreign markets: The case of financial advice industry in the United States
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- Murad A. Mithani
- Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review
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- Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Heidi Wechtler and Zheng, Linglin (Gloria)
- Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries
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- Arrian A D Cornwell, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun and Mary E. Thomson
Volume 58, issue 3, 2023
- When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business
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- Alexandra Kriz, Maria Rumyantseva and Catherine Welch
- Absorptive capacity, learning and profiting from outward FDI: Evidence from Canadian firms
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- Walid Hejazi, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang
- Multinational family firms’ internationalization depth and breadth following the global financial crisis
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- Sebastian P.L. Fourné, Miriam Zschoche, Christian Schwens and Reddi Kotha
- Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China
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- Sunny Li Sun, Yoona Choi, Feng Guo, Jinyu Guo, Bo Zou and Lin Cui
- Three decades of research on practice transfer in multinational firms: Past contributions and future opportunities
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- Johann Fortwengel, Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O and Tatiana Kostova
- How do firms reach out to foreign universities? Inventors’ personal characteristics and the multinational structure of firms
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- Claudio Fassio, Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi
- Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict
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- Chenguang Hu, Jiatao Li and Kyung Hwan Yun
- Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management
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- Sina A. Kraus, Benjamin D. Blake, Marion Festing and Margaret A. Shaffer
Volume 58, issue 2, 2023
- MNEs’ transfer of socially irresponsible practices: A replication with new extensions
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- Maoliang Bu, Liang Xu and Ryan W. Tang
- Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance
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- Gary Bowman, Roxane Foulser-Piggott and Paul W Beamish
- To go or not to go? Opportunities as triggers of commitment to internationalisation
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- Joe Schembri, Margaret Fletcher and Trevor Buck
- Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership
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- Ryan W. Tang
- How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?
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- Rui Shen, Hai Guo and Hongjia Ma
- Rethinking corruption in international business: An empirical review
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- Tao Wu, Andrew Delios, Zhaowei Chen and Xin Wang
- The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs
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- Claudia Pongelli, Antonio Majocchi, Jonathan Bauweraerts, Salvatore Sciascia, Matteo Caroli and Alain Verbeke
- How much does host country matter, really?
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- Daniel S. Andrews and Klaus Meyer
- What's in a word? Adopting a linguistic-style analysis of western MNCs’ global press releases
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- Michael Antioco, Kristof Coussement, Chavi Fletcher-Chen and Christiane Prange
- (Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts
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- Bidit L. Dey, Youssef Tarek Nasef, David M Brown, Lalnunpuia Samuel, Pallavi Singh and Chrysostomos Apostolidis
- Weathering storms – Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis
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- Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen and Ivo Zander
- Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals
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- Irina Mihailova
- Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role
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- Juan I. Sanchez, Jaime Bonache, Carmen Paz-Aparicio and Celia Zárraga Oberty
- Knowledge acquisition from host-country partners: The interplay of trust and legal safeguards
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- Clarissa E. Weber and Indre Maurer
- Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry
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- Peter J Buckley, Lin Cui, Liang Chen, Yi Li and Yoona Choi
- International business under sanctions
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- Klaus Meyer, Tony Fang, Andrei Panibratov, Mike W. Peng and Ajai Gaur
Volume 58, issue 1, 2023
- Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals
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- Mila Lazarova, Paula Caligiuri, David G. Collings and Helen De Cieri
- Understanding time in qualitative international business research: Towards four styles of temporal theorizing
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- Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Michael Gibbert
- Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward
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- Snejina Michailova, Anthony Fee and Angelo DeNisi
- International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda
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- Nadia Zahoor, Zaheer Khan and Oded Shenkar
- A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture
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- Vas Taras, Piers Steel and Madelynn Stackhouse
- Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context
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- Esther Tippmann, Tina C. Ambos, Manlio Del Giudice, Sinéad Monaghan and Dimo Ringov
- Decoupling in international business: Evidence, drivers, impact, and implications for IB research
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- Michael A. Witt, Arie Y. Lewin, Peter Ping Li and Ajai Gaur
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