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Journal of World Business

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): David Collings and Jonathan Doh

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Volume 60, issue 2, 2025

An advanced meta-ranking for the expanding international business field – Journal status and future trajectories Downloads
Heinz Tüselmann, Rudolf R. Sinkovics and Grigory Pishchulov
Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Rui Hou and Huaichuan Rui
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research Downloads
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 Downloads
Benjamin Philipp Krebs and Rüdiger Kabst
Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products Downloads
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 Downloads
Cristina Popescu and Markus Pudelko
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Mohammad Fuad, Mohsen Mohaghegh and Shavin Malhotra
Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes Downloads
Htwe Htwe Thein, Anna Grosman, Sergey Sosnovskikh and Anton Klarin

Volume 59, issue 5, 2024

International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise Downloads
Peter J. Buckley, Peter Enderwick, Linda Hsieh and Oded Shenkar
Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens Downloads
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 Downloads
Helena Barnard and John M. Luiz
Reducing freeloading in Global Virtual Teams: A quasi-experimental approach Downloads
Vas Taras, Matthew McLarnon, Piers Steel and Thomas O'Neil
Regional resilience during a trade war: The role of global connections and local networks Downloads
Canfei He, Jing Li, Wenyu Wang and Peng Zhang
The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia Downloads
Marina Latukha, Ilan Alon, Nikita Kuleshov and Vlad Vaiman

Volume 59, issue 4, 2024

Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets Downloads
Juan Bu, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Yadong Luo and Stephanie Lu Wang
Language and identity: The dynamics of linguistic clustering in multinational enterprises Downloads
Komal Kalra and Wade Danis
Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰ Downloads
Tianyou Hu, Shu Yu and Andrew Delios
The mediated and moderated effects of IEO on international performance: An investigation of emerging market SMEs Downloads
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 Downloads
Weiting Zheng, Yaqin Zheng, Jingtao Yi, Noman Shaheer and Sali Li
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas Downloads
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 Downloads
Vikrant Shirodkar, Rishika Nayyar and Sumati Varma
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership Downloads
Nan Zhou
Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces Downloads
Hilla Back and Rebecca Piekkari
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective Downloads
Philipp Volkmer, Matthias Baum and Nicole Coviello
Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms Downloads
Sylvie Chetty, Peter Gabrielsson and Mika Gabrielsson
Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward Downloads
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 Downloads
Shengwen Li and Anthony Goerzen
State ownership and Chinese private firms’ OFDI in developed economies Downloads
En Xie, Fanshu Li, Zhan Wu and Vikas Kumar
From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams Downloads
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 Downloads
Maria Lapeira, Georges Samara, Sumit Kundu and Arun Kumaraswamy
The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts Downloads
Ramzi Fathallah and Michael Carney
Cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market MNEs revisited: Inductive evidence from a machine learning analysis Downloads
Jianhong Zhang, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Chaohong Zhou and Shengyang Zhou
Unlearning diversity management Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Amy E. Randel and Valerie Alexandra
The interplay of international alliance and subsidiary portfolios: Implications for firms’ innovation and financial performance Downloads
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? Downloads
Karoline M. Summerville, Victor Zitian Chen, Amir Shoham and Vasyl Taras
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors Downloads
Nikolaos Kavadis, Niels Hermes, Jana Oehmichen, Alessandro Zattoni and Stav Fainshmidt
Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter? Downloads
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 Downloads
Mihaela Dimitrova, John Kammeyer-Mueller, Margaret A. Shaffer and Marlene Gruber
Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions Downloads
Luciano Ciravegna, David Ahlstrom, Snejina Michailova, Chang Hoon Oh and Ajai Gaur
Reconsidering, refashioning, and reconceptualizing research methodology in international business Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Maksim Belitski, Jeff Martin, Tatiana Stettler and William Wales
Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change Downloads
Ivan Miroshnychenko, Kimberly A. Eddleston and Alfredo De Massis
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory Downloads
Ravi S. Ramani and Herman Aguinis
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Giulio Nardella, Irina Surdu and Stephen Brammer
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies Downloads
Jasmin Mahadevan and Fiona Moore
Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry Downloads
Pavlina Jasovska, Hussain G. Rammal, Carl Rhodes and Danielle Logue
International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots Downloads
Francesca Ciulli and Ans Kolk
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect Downloads
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 Downloads
Murad A. Mithani
Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review Downloads
Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Heidi Wechtler and Zheng, Linglin (Gloria)
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries Downloads
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 Downloads
Alexandra Kriz, Maria Rumyantseva and Catherine Welch
Absorptive capacity, learning and profiting from outward FDI: Evidence from Canadian firms Downloads
Walid Hejazi, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang
Multinational family firms’ internationalization depth and breadth following the global financial crisis Downloads
Sebastian P.L. Fourné, Miriam Zschoche, Christian Schwens and Reddi Kotha
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Claudio Fassio, Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi
Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Maoliang Bu, Liang Xu and Ryan W. Tang
Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance Downloads
Gary Bowman, Roxane Foulser-Piggott and Paul W Beamish
To go or not to go? Opportunities as triggers of commitment to internationalisation Downloads
Joe Schembri, Margaret Fletcher and Trevor Buck
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership Downloads
Ryan W. Tang
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance? Downloads
Rui Shen, Hai Guo and Hongjia Ma
Rethinking corruption in international business: An empirical review Downloads
Tao Wu, Andrew Delios, Zhaowei Chen and Xin Wang
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs Downloads
Claudia Pongelli, Antonio Majocchi, Jonathan Bauweraerts, Salvatore Sciascia, Matteo Caroli and Alain Verbeke
How much does host country matter, really? Downloads
Daniel S. Andrews and Klaus Meyer
What's in a word? Adopting a linguistic-style analysis of western MNCs’ global press releases Downloads
Michael Antioco, Kristof Coussement, Chavi Fletcher-Chen and Christiane Prange
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts Downloads
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 Downloads
Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen and Ivo Zander
Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals Downloads
Irina Mihailova
Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role Downloads
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 Downloads
Clarissa E. Weber and Indre Maurer
Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry Downloads
Peter J Buckley, Lin Cui, Liang Chen, Yi Li and Yoona Choi
International business under sanctions Downloads
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 Downloads
Mila Lazarova, Paula Caligiuri, David G. Collings and Helen De Cieri
Understanding time in qualitative international business research: Towards four styles of temporal theorizing Downloads
Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Michael Gibbert
Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward Downloads
Snejina Michailova, Anthony Fee and Angelo DeNisi
International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda Downloads
Nadia Zahoor, Zaheer Khan and Oded Shenkar
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture Downloads
Vas Taras, Piers Steel and Madelynn Stackhouse
Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context Downloads
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 Downloads
Michael A. Witt, Arie Y. Lewin, Peter Ping Li and Ajai Gaur
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