Journal of International Management

1998 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. Kotabe

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Volume 31, issue 2, 2025

“Do you understand me correctly?” The role of accents in communication in global virtual teams

Mike Szymanski and Carlo Brighi

Fostering assigned expatriates' thriving at work through cultural intelligence and local embeddedness: The role of relational attachment

Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Priyanka Jain, Eric Adom Asante, Samuel Adomako, Kwame Simpe Ofori and Yocabel Hayford

A microscope on de-risking

Yadong Luo

Foreign and domestic university collaboration for outbound open innovation

Omid Aliasghar, C. Annique Un, Kazuhiro Asakawa, Jarrod Haar and Sihong Wu

Between rock and a hard place: The impact of home country demand on exclusive international strategic alliances forged by new technology ventures

Deepak Sardana, Narain Gupta and Huda Khan

Can conflict be a desirable step in trust-building within international strategic alliances? A systematic literature review and typology

Claudio De Mattos, Laura Salciuviene and Stuart Sanderson

It is not only what you say, but how you say it: A language attitude perspective of skilled migrants' culture-related linguistic skills and workplace integration in multinational corporations

Jinju Xie and Vesa Peltokorpi

Do global dynamic managerial capabilities affect MNEs' divestments of their overseas subsidiaries?

Ha Nguyen and Roger Strange

Volume 31, issue 1, 2025

Impact of changes in political affinity on opportunism in global supply chain: The moderating role of national culture

Tao Wang, Zhongyi Han, Zhiwen Fan and Yu Jia

Effective strategies for humanitarian migrants' employment, inclusion and integration – The role of international management

Katja Wehrle, Hans van Dijk, Betina Szkudlarek and Alexander Newman

When do firms overspend on CSR? The impacts of foreignness and institutional distance

Vikrant Shirodkar, Rishika Nayyar and Paresha Sinha

How does outward FDI in developed economies affect the R&D of emerging economy firms? An attention-based view

En Xie, Jiaxin Lin and Honghui Zou

The experience dilemma: A nonlinear exploration of antecedents to entrepreneurial alertness

Jase R. Ramsey, Melanie P. Lorenz, Steven M. Farmer and Jintong Tang

Transcending conflict in global virtual teams: Multi-level effects of cultural intelligence and perceptions of conflict on subjective and objective outcomes

William H.A. Johnson, Longzhu Dong, Ming Li and Vas Taras

Corrigendum to “Stability of international joint ventures: When experience and age overshadow host country risk” [J. Int. Manag. 30 (2024)/101205]

Hamza Aib

Volume 30, issue 5, 2024

Towards Increased Understanding of Leadership in the African Context: Data From Seven Countries

Bella L. Galperin, James Michaud, Betty Jane Punnett, Lemayon L. Melyoki, Elham Metwally, Clive Mukanzi, Thomas Anyanje Senaji and Ali Taleb

Cross-border and domestic early-stage financial investment in 3D printing: An empirical perspective on drivers and locations

Eugene D. Hahn and Silvia Massini

An investigation of the impact of intellectual capital on entrepreneurial performance: A moderated mediation analysis on global firms

Ying Zhang, Jie Jia, Chenyang Wu, Wei Zhou and Konstantinos Evangelinos

International market, network, and opportunity selection: A systematic review of empirical research, integrative framework, and comprehensive research agenda

Barbara Francioni and Oscar Martín Martín

Rethinking board structures in the age of multinational corporations: A global investigation

Cemil Kuzey, Ali Meftah Gerged, Ali Uyar and Abdullah S. Karaman

Founding Team Structure: A Critical Resource for Internationally Oriented Start-ups in the Era of Political Uncertainty

Alexander Berman, Amir Shoham and Noam Teltch

When Global is Not Enough: Applying a Paradox Lens to Sustainability Transitions in Interorganizational Systems

Katrin Heucher, Stephanie Schrage and Ibrahim Abosag

The joint effects of institutional logic multiplicity and distance on within-MNE CSR performance differences

Marloes Korendijk, Alan Muller and Rieneke Slager

Global strategy evolution, devolution or revolution: Disruptions to globalization and international business introversion

Demetris Vrontis, Riad Shams, Alkis Thrassou and Mario Kafouros

Editorial on Doing business in Africa: Navigating opportunities and challenges in Africa's emerging markets

Samuel Adomako, Oded Shenkar, Xiaohui Liu, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and Mujtaba Ahsan

Volume 30, issue 4, 2024

Host Country Nationals' Role Overload and Perspective Taking as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Role of Host Country nationals' Agreeableness

Haiying Kang, Ying Wang and Yi Cao

The omnipresence of the state and its effect on the internationalization of companies: The Russian variety of state capitalism

Daria Klishevich and Andrei Panibratov

Are proactive outbound cross-border mergers and acquisitions effective for firms' R&D? New evidence from emerging market enterprises

Xianming Wu, Maoqiong Wang and Victor Cui

African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Trade in ICT and Digital Technologies

Kweku Adams, Rexford Attah-Boakye, Honglan Yu, Irene Chu and Dafydd Mali

Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinational enterprises and the liability of emergingness

Xinli Huang, Yanze Liang and Don Webber

Multinational enterprises' R&D commitments in Chinese provinces: A configurational approach

Matthew M.C. Allen, Mehmet Demirbag, Maria L. Allen, Shabneez Bhankaraully and Geoff Wood

Stakeholder engagement strategies for impactful corporate social innovation initiatives by multinational enterprises

Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Priscilla Álamos-Concha, Mabel Machado López, Julie Hagan, Gregor Murray, Tony Edwards, Philipp Kern, Isabelle Martin and Ling Eleanor Zhang

Necessity- and opportunity-based female entrepreneurship across countries: The configurational impact of country-level institutions

Wei Deng, Irina Orbes and Pengcheng Ma

Corporate social responsibility and brand performance: Evidence from Ghana

George Kofi Amoako, Kwasi Dartey-Baah, Felicia Naatu, Innocent Senyo Kwasi Acquah and Antoinette Yaa Benewaa Gabrah

International entrepreneurial orientation and early internationalisation of SMEs: Does international networking orientation with competitors and non-competitors make a difference?

Edgar Nave, João J. Ferreira and Jorge Carneiro

The role of multinational enterprises and formal institutions in BOP markets

Alain Verbeke, Sean Simoes and Birgitte Grøgaard

Volume 30, issue 3, 2024

Blockchain-based connectivity within digital platforms and ecosystems in international business

Aušrinė Šilenskytė, Jurgita Butkevičienė and Andrius Bartminas

How does perceived organizational support improve expatriates' outcomes during global crises? The mediating role of the ethical organizational climate in global organizations

Andri Georgiadou, Amina Amari, Abdelaziz Swalhi and Mahrane Hofaidhllaoui

Strategic renewal during crises - A pragmatist proposition for multinational enterprises in a globalized world

Amitabh Anand, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Melanie Bowen and Deva Rangarajan

Focal firms and interorganisational relationships in small economies: Towards a multi-level theoretical framework for enhancing value co-creation and performance

Zuberia Hosanoo, Parth Patel, Verma Prikshat, Rama Prasad Kanungo and Surkasha Gupta

Institutions and corruption relationship: Evidence from African countries

Agyenim Boateng, Yan Wang, Collins Ntim and Mohamed Elmagrhi

International connection, local disconnection: The (heterogeneous) role of global cities in local and global innovation networks

Florence Benoit and Rene Belderbos

The Effect of Cross-border Acquisition Experience on Subsequent Cross-border Acquisitions: A Test of the S-shape Hypothesis

Revti Raman Sharma, Sharmistha Chowdhury and Yang Yu

Do expatriates adjust better when they seek advice from host country nationals? Role of perceived social costs and organizational support in advice-seeking

Ashish Mahajan and Yusuf Hassan

Non-market strategies in weak institutional environments: The case of MNE subsidiaries in Cameroon

Young Hoon An, Yong Kyu Lew and Zaheer Khan

The connections that bind: Political connectivity in the face of geopolitical disruption

Christopher Hartwell and Olha Zadorozhna

Generous to a fault: Differential impact of CSR investments on financial gains in Indian market multinationals

Vidya Sukumara Panicker, Elena Georgiadou and Ian R. Hodgkinson

Additive manufacturing in international business: Bridging academic and practitioners' perspectives

Elisa Giacosa, Edoardo Crocco, Jan Kubálek and Francesca Culasso

Does entrepreneurial autonomy always drive emerging market SMEs internationalization? An effectual logic perspective

Samuel Yaw Kusi, Arinze Christian Nwoba, Ogechi Adeola, Adedapo Adedajo and Osei Yaw Adjei

Volume 30, issue 2, 2024

Playing games with QCA: The Banzhaf index as a context-sensitive measure of explanatory power in international management

Claus-Jochen Haake and Martin R. Schneider

Making Sense of Socio-Political Risks in International Business: A Configurational Approach to Embracing Complexity

Thomas C. Lawton, Maria Andrea De Villa and Sandra Milena Santamaria-Alvarez

Demystifying pathways of composition-based international strategies under the de-globalization world: A configurational approach

Huan Zhang, Lili Mi, Xuefeng Shao and Juan Bu

Nationalistic political rhetoric: measurement and preliminary insights

Murad A. Mithani

Information distance: Conceptual development and empirical tests of a novel measure of cross-national distance

Thomas Lindner and Jonas Puck

A configurational approach to political risks and institutional logics

Di Fan, Yiyi Su and Mike W. Peng

Vox populi, vox dei: A concept and measure for grassroots socio-political risk using Google Trends

Harald Puhr and Jakob Müllner

Political lobbying by foreign firms: A new firm-level data set

Dinesh Hasija and Lee Warren Brown

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Taking stock and looking ahead for international business research

Yaw A. Debrah, Oluwaseun E. Olabode, Femi Olan and Richard B. Nyuur

Springboarding and activity load: Constraints on managerial attention and dependency on advisory firms in cross-border acquisitions

Manish Popli and Faisal Mohammad Ahsan

Role of resource investment management and strategic resource deployment capabilities in internationalization-performance relationship

Anish Purkayastha, Amit Karna, Sunil Sharma and Dhiman Bhadra

The internationalization of hidden champions from Germany and the UK: An extension to the Born-Again Global path

Alessa Witt, Mahmoud Khalik and Jose Godinez

Aspiring to go abroad: How and when international entrepreneurial aspiration fuel emerging markets entrepreneurial ventures’ internationalisation speed

Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Domnan Miri, Nadia Zahoor and Mahmoud Alajaty

Disguise or disclose? How identities of individual entrepreneurs on digital platforms influence their international success

Noman Shaheer, Yu Chen, Hoik Kim and Sali Li

The impact of liability of foreignness on performance in hybrid organizations

Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno, Roy Mersland and Trond Randøy

Volume 30, issue 1, 2024

Transitioning from CSR to CSV in a foreign subsidiary in China through temporal decoupling

Jacky Hong, Tiffany Leung and Robin Stanley Snell

Global disasters and the luck of the draw? A serendipity perspective on MNE responses to global disasters

Zheng, Linglin (Gloria), Heidi M. Wechtler, Mariano L.M. Heyden and Ricarda B. Bouncken

MNEs' capabilities and their sustainable business in emerging markets: Evidence from MNE subsidiaries in China

Taewoo Roh, Xiao, Shufeng (Simon) and Byung Il Park

Perspectives on dynamic capabilities and ambidexterity in born-global companies: Theoretical framing, review and research agenda

Marco Figueiredo, João J. Ferreira and Demetris Vrontis

Understanding employer branding within MNC subsidiaries: Evidence from MNC hotel subsidiaries in Indonesia

Arnold Japutra, Ringkar Situmorang, Marcello Mariani and Vijay Pereira

Charity can still begin at home: Examining the drivers and boundary conditions of Africa-to-Africa outward foreign direct investment (OFDI)

Diana Owusu-Yirenkyi, Portia M. Akolgo, Gilbert Zana Naab, Francis Donbesuur and Albert Danso

The intertwined role of social and financial remittances in new firms' creation

Giulia Bettin, Carla Massidda and Romano Piras

Business model innovation and international performance of emerging market international businesses

Michael Christofi, Nadia Zahoor, Elias Hadjielias and Samuel Adomako

Reverse knowledge transfer from subsidiaries to headquarters: Chinese firms in Africa

Steve Kyungjae Lee, Pervez N. Ghauri, Kum-Sik Oh, Xiao, Shufeng (Simon), Byung Il Park and Ana M. Romero-Martínez

Geographic distance in cross-border acquisitions: The impact of CEO's psychological attributes

Viswa Prasad Gada, Manish Popli and Shavin Malhotra

Effect of inward foreign direct investment on entrepreneurship productivity in emerging markets

Zhongfeng Su, Jiatao Li, Shihao Wei and Zhan Wu

Paradoxical organizational culture, authoritarian leadership, and international firm performance: evidence from international firms in China

Jeoung Yul Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Shinwon Noh, Seung Hoon Jang and Sang Youn Lee

African returnees in international knowledge transfer: A social capital perspective

Mingchu Wang, Yingqi Wei, Gideon Azumah and Catherine L. Wang

Firm performance drivers within a dynamic emerging market ecosystem

Magdalena Viktora-Jones, Ronaldo Parente, Netanel Drori and Yue Zhao