International Business Review

1993 - 2026

Current editor(s): P. Ghauri

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Volume 35, issue 4, 2026

The influence of business group control over firm disclosure in offshore financial centres: Evidence from the Caribbean

Bruce Hearn

Does green attract green? The impact of place-based green policies on green FDI

Mingyue Wang, Hao Chen, Bin Liang and Bo Yuan

Differences in legal origins and ownership share in cross-border mergers and acquisitions: International empirical evidence

Weihong Chen, Gengtao Tu and Ming Zhang

The moderating effect of big data analytics on the international experience - post-entry internationalization speed relationship: An empirical study of U.S. public firms

Kim-Chi Vu, Xinming He and Jorge Lengler

What have we learned about the internationalization of digital platform firms? Orchestration, legitimation, and the endogenous role of institutions

Roman Teplov, Diellza Salihu, Juha Väätänen and Alexander Settles

Export tax rebate and technological innovation

Ziliang Deng, Shuai Meng and Peter W. Liesch

Caught in the crossfire: Multinational enterprises in the era of geopolitical tensions

Evis Sinani, Bersant Hobdari, Kristin Brandl and Jens Gammelgaard

Network competence for the bottom of pyramid markets: Evidence from cross-border networking between exporters and intermediaries

Huda Khan, Richard Lee, Zaheer Khan and Stefanos Mouzas

The regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive dimensions of the returnee opportunity and returnee liability: How institutional migration creates the two sides of the same coin

Pamela ADHIAMBO Mreji, Elie Virgile Chrysostome and Helena Barnard

Contemporary challenges and the future of the multinational enterprise

Peter J. Buckley

Key issues impacting European business in the 2020s

Nicholas Nanopoulos

Internalization theory and the global grand challenges

Birgitte Grøgaard

The future of international business strategy research

Alain Verbeke

Home-country climate regulation and strategic response of multinational enterprises: Investment relocation or green innovation?

Minglai Li, Hongyan Zhang, Lin Zhang and Huanhuan Zheng

The future of the multinational enterprise: An appreciation and an assessment

Roger Strange

Multinationality and strategic dynamic capabilities during sustainable development goals adoption: Evidence from a natural experiment

Liane W.Y. Lee and Alexander V. Krasnikov

Reliance on AI in augmented strategic decision-making: Navigating cultural and national dynamics

Jelena Cerar, Dana Minbaeva and Phillip C. Nell

The future of the theory of the multinational enterprise

Mark Casson

The impact of sanctions against Russia on Swedish MNEs’ strategies and performance: A responsible loss strategy

Olga Golubeva, Tony Fang and Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Volume 35, issue 3, 2026

One-off export experiences and firms’ product- and country-scope export expansion: Evidence from two decades of monthly data

Ingo Geishecker, Allan Sørensen, Philipp J.H. Schröder and Eliane Choquette

Multinational enterprises (MNEs), heterogeneity in corporate social responsibility (CSR), and subsidiary employment in host countries: A signaling perspective

Eunsuk Hong, Jae Chul Jung, Lee, In Hyeock (Ian) and Shige Makino

A state-market interplay framework for strategic knowledge management in Chinese MNEs

Yulun Ma, Oli Mihalache, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Peter Ping Li

MNEs in crossfire: A critical review of global business-society tensions

Maria Luiza Carvalho de Aguillar Pinho, Celso Roberto de Aguillar Pinho, Attila Yaprak, Leigh Anne Liu and S. Tamer Cavusgil

Overcoming the liability of foreignness: The effect of identity decoupling on acquirer’s post-acquisition performance

Qiuxia Zheng, Niels Noorderhaven and Jiangang Jiang

Volume 35, issue 2, 2026

Exploring joint conformance to board independence and board gender diversity norms: An actor-centered configurational approach

Young Un Kim and Salih Zeki Ozdemir

The shift to a more turbulent IB environment, and how MNEs respond to this shift

Farok J. Contractor, John Cantwell, Gary Gereffi and Karl P. Sauvant

Co-evolved value transfer: Managing subsidiary managers’ reinterpretation of headquarter values

Meng Zhao, Seung Ho Park and Marie K. Harder

Navigating networks: The differential impact of government and market ties on the performance of traditionally internationalized SMEs

Anisur R. Faroque, Peter Gabrielsson, Tomi Seppälä, Mika Gabrielsson and Jukka Partanen

Multinationality of family firms: The impact of business group affiliation

Arindam Mondal and Somnath Lahiri

Managing resource constraints through international networks: Capability development and incremental and radical innovation in emerging markets

Shufeng Xiao, Byung Il Park and Zaheer Khan

From spark to sphere: The impact of positive innovation quality feedback on firms’ overseas R&D geographic scope

Weiwei Zheng, Xi Zhong and Xinming He

Coopetition, digital innovation, and sustainable performance in international digital ventures: Moderating role of institutional environment

Piyush Ranjan and Shivam Rai

Multinational enterprises’ subsidiary density and subsidiary survival: An attention-based perspective

Ha Nguyen and Vikrant Shirodkar

The impact of inward foreign direct investment bans on the configuration of global value chains

Peter J. Buckley and Niron Hashai

A multilevel framework for analysing organisational misconduct in emerging economies

Amitabh Anand, Daniel Rottig, Miklós Stocker and Virginia Bodolica

Bilateral geopolitical risk and equity ownership in cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging-market firms: Non-market strategies as legitimacy buffers

Xianming Wu, Qi Ni and Victor Cui

Volume 35, issue 1, 2026

Foreign ownership and R&D networks: Geographic and organizational proximity in R&D cooperation

Yingmin Wei and André Spithoven

International high-tech cross-border acquisitions and long-term employment growth in foreign target firms: Are EMNEs catching up by hiring in foreign technological clusters?

Ludan Wu, Dylan Sutherland and John R. Anderson

Navigating the uncertainty of foreign legal systems: An organizational life stage model

Jifeng Yu, Dennis Duchon and Skylar Rolf

Internationalization and Private Equity Partnerships: Legal Origin Heterogeneity and Fund Performance

Geoffrey Wood, Giorgos Papagiannakis, Marilou Ioakimidis and Jens Martin

The double bind: Human resource management under sanctions and skilled labor exodus

Marina Latukha, Desislava Dikova, Andrei Panibratov and Nikita Kuleshov

Heuristics and decision rationality in entry mode choice: Implications for decision effectiveness and international performance

Anisur R. Faroque, Arafat Rahman, Mohammad Osman Gani and Imranul Hoque

Family management, external R&D collaboration, and the speed and scope of internationalization

Joan-Lluís Capelleras, Victor Martin-Sanchez and Chao Zhang

Impact of organizational culture on employee psychological safety perception: The pivotal role of trust in top management across 18 societies

Ratan J.S. Dheer, Jane Terpstra-Tong, Len Treviño, David A. Ralston, Brian Tjemkes, Luis Sigala Paparella, Marian Crowley-Henry, Calvin Burns, Fabian Froese, Gabrielle Poeschl, Oswaldo Morales, Erna Szabo, Pingping Fu, Narasimhan Srinivasan, Mario Molteni, Arif Butt, Oliver Furrer, Fidel León Darder, Maria Kangasniemi-Haapala, Ajantha S. Dharmasiri and Ruth Alas

Time orientation in languages and agency costs

Richard Yeboah, George Nyantakyi and Ali Meftah Gerged

Why regional economic agreements matter more than multilateral and bilateral agreements: Evidence from trade and investment in East Asia

Der-Ting Huang

The predictive power of agency theory in a multipolar world

Vincent E. Kunst and Sjoerd Beugelsdijk

Digital IB risks: A systematic literature review through internalisation lenses

Bernardo Silva-Rêgo and Clarice Kogut

Home-country effects of outward foreign direct investment: A systematic review of empirical and policy evidence

Jan Knoerich and Daniel Benson

Exploring one of the darker sides of expatriation: Chinese expatriates' experiences with petty corruption in Tanzania

Chengcheng Miao and Chris Brewster

How to shape internationalization: Footprint configurations of knowledge-intensive service firms

Rany Salvoldi and David M. Brock

Promoting knowledge creation in MNEs through unlearning

Xiangyang Wang, Xuefei Lei and Zhiyi Liu

The impact of US and China geopolitical risk on foreign direct investment in Latin America

Henrique Correa da Cunha, Vik Singh, Mohamed Amal, Carlyle Farrell, Shivanie Mangal and Glaucia Grellmann

Strategic sensemaking as dynamic capability: How MNEs navigate institutional challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

Charles Mbalyohere and Thomas Lawton

Subsidiary strategy in the modern multinational: Grappling with change and complexity

Ulf Andersson, Paul Ryan, Majella Giblin and Edward Gillmore