Journal of International Management

1998 - 2026

Current editor(s): M. Kotabe

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Volume 32, issue 4, 2026

Networked MNEs and the costs of conflict

Peter Enderwick and Peter J. Buckley

Corporate social responsibility and exporting: A review and future research agenda

Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Carmen Lopez and Ashmiza Mahamed Ismail

Corrigendum to ‘When agency theory weds prospect theory! How does VC–entrepreneur's dyadic interplay impact internationalization of a born global firm?’ [J. Int. Manag., volume 32 (2026), 101325]

Rai Siddhant Sinha, M.K. Nandakumar and Martina Battisti

U.S. sanctions and innovation performance in Chinese firms: An institutional perspective

Xin Ming, Lei Tao, Ru Cheng and Qiang Wang

Labor market regulation diversity and EMNE innovation: Evidence from China

Hai Guo, Pengcheng Ma and Ru Zhang

Liability or opportunity? IPR regime incongruence and MNEs' R&D internationalization speed

Yi Yang and Longwei Tian

The role of human rights distance and host-country experience in emerging market multinationals' ownership strategies

Yifan Zhong and Rekha Rao-Nicholson

Export intensity of MNE overseas subsidiaries: Exploring the roles of parent firms' corporate policy of trade finance and subsidiary-level export knowledge

Quyen T.K. Nguyen and Paloma Almodóvar

Performance persistence: The role of fit between entry mode and linguistic and religious distance

Ismail Abdulhak, Paul Kalfadellis and Dean Xu

Institutional arbitrage across borders and EMNE innovation performance

Jie Wu, Rajeev Sawant, Tingting Zhou, Aiqi Wu and Wensong Bai

EMNE divestments from emerging markets: Strategic disengagement in institutionally turbulent African contexts

Hannah Chambers and John M. Luiz

FDI resilience during global polarization: MNE location choice and uneven impacts on low-income countries

Anamika Datta and Frances Fabian

Arab money on the move: The pull of historical legacies on outward FDI

Abdulkader Aljandali, Mohammed Amine and Melodena Stephens

New patterns in springboard theory

Yadong Luo and Rosalie L. Tung

Feeling included in the workgroup as a multicultural: The role of prosocial motivation and context dependent message communication

Valerie Alexandra and Amy E. Randel

Untangling indigenous leadership competences in sustainability challenged firms: A Sustainable Indigenous Network Leadership commitment toward emission mitigation in Bahrain energy industry

Nawaf AlGhanem, Ashley Braganza and Christian Harrison

Bankruptcy laws and ambitious entrepreneurship: A replication with extensions

Qidi Zhang and Zhongfeng Su

Beyond cultural intelligence: A cognitive-affective perspective on knowledge sharing in migrant employee-local supervisor dyads

Alfred Presbitero

Volume 32, issue 3, 2026

Safeguard or shackle? The dual effect of extradition treaties on emerging market firms' host country location choice

Qi Wu, Shiqi Zhang, Qizhen Zhong and Hualin Chu

Longstanding MNE subsidiaries: Toward a theory of subsidiary longevity

Felix Arndt and Christiaan Röell

Cross-border data risk and firm performance: The moderating role of digital resilience and agility

Wanxiu Xu and Xiaodong Zuo

The impact of embeddedness (in)congruence on reverse knowledge transfer – An agency theory perspective

Lei Wang and Yang Yu

Where angels fear to tread: FDI into sanctioned locations

Nigel Driffield, Saul Estrin, Chris Jones and Ha-Phuong Luong

Technology catchup through knowledge-seeking acquisitions: Historical case of Taiwanese high technology firms

Barclay E. James and Rajeev J. Sawant

How market openness, narrative distinctiveness, and innovation capability impact firm performance: A comparative study of Chinese and foreign platform enterprises in China

Bin Xiao and Hongjia Ma

Friendshoring in international business: Theoretical Foundations and a Typological Framework

Hadi Zarea and Zhan Su

The liability of kinship and the internationalization of family firms: A qualitative study of a Greek family firm

Christos Antoniou, Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos, Luis Alfonso Dau, Malcolm Chapman and Peter J. Buckley

Book review: Ethnography in International Business: Learning from the Field, by Mary Yoko Brannen, Cambridge University Press (2025)

Christiaan Röell

International market withdrawal of family-owned multinationals: Socioemotional wealth heterogeneity under uncertainty

Kaiyang Sun and Henry Shi

How innovation performance feedback influences R&D internationalization: Evidence from emerging economic firms

Mengya Li and Chen Hao

More replication studies are needed in international management!

Bin Liu, Eric W.K. Tsang, David Ahlstrom and Linda Hsieh

Effects of alliance experience gained before regulatory change in China on subsequent entry-mode preference

Jinsil Kim, Jun Xia and Seung-Hyun Lee

Internationalization and data capabilities: An institutional void perspective

Bibek Bhattacharya, Lakshmi Goyal, Rajarshi Mukherjee and Adrija Majumdar

Volume 32, issue 2, 2026

CEOs' international experience: Welcome or unsolicited?

Sebastian Baldermann, Stefan Schmid and Tobias Dauth

A systematic review of replication studies in international management: What has been done so far, and what needs to be done in the future?

Amber Y. Chang, Yuhan Sun and Mark Loon

More is less? The dual effect of international diversification on emerging market new ventures' innovation performance

Yueqi Wang, Wen Helena Li and Wei Liu

Government-firm vs. government-business connections and outward foreign direct investment in China

Jinhui Luo, Qiao Wei and Xuantong Yi

Does transaction cost analysis explain virtual export channel choice?

Bin Chang and Dasol Sim

Home-country imprinting and the international experience–growth relationship: A meta-analysis

Sihong Wu, Xinli Huang, Di Fan and Yiyi Su

Reassessing the potential of FDI for poverty reduction in Africa: A replication and extension of Gohou and Soumaré (2012)

Belyse Umwali and Yingqi Wei

From pollution halo to haven: Two-sided environmental spillovers of foreign firms in China

Jinlei Yu, Haotian Luo, Anlan Lin and Tong Mu

From entrepreneurial orientation to export performance: A pathway through vicarious learning and absorptive capacity in international SMEs

Shanika Rangani Perera, Paresha Sinha and Antoine Gilbert-Saad

Institutional and relational underpinnings of vertical FDI spillovers in international buyer-supplier relationships: Insights from automotive suppliers

Tulay Ilhan Nas, Fatih Sahin, Ismail Golgeci and Tarhan Okan

The impact of host country economic policy uncertainty on the performance of overseas subsidiaries - Evidence of Taiwanese MNEs in China

Yi-Chi Hsiao, Chun-Ping Yeh and Shih-Min Lin

When language shapes psychological adjustment: Cultural intelligence and linguistic distance in multinational assignments

Yuran Li and Ying Zhang

Organized crime and firm innovation: The moderating effects of business group affiliation and export intensity

Yiyun Zhang and Shihao Wei

How subsidiaries leverage institutionally derived influence in headquarter strategy initiatives

Ivar Padrón-Hernández and Edward Gillmore

How does internationalization affect innovation of Chinese MNEs? A revisit amid the U.S.-China trade war

Tianle Yang, Luobin Zhang, Lei Li, Ruiyi Luo and Qunyang Du

Strategic code-switching in IB negotiations: How confessional institutions shape negotiation strategy in Lebanon

Bachar Moughayt

Robotics and labor costs: Not a duel, but a dual advantage

Pavan Kulkarni, Snehal Awate and Amit J. Chauradia

Paradoxical FDI strategies, subsidiary financial performance, and managerial global mindset

Fuming Jiang, Subramaniam Ananthram and Mike W. Peng

Volume 32, issue 1, 2026

Unravelling the interplay between institutional logics, organizational identity, and the embeddedness of MNE subsidiaries in host countries

Xinxiang Li, Noelia-Sarah Reynolds and Le Bo

Supply backshoring as a strategy to reduce transaction costs in an era of global value chain reconfiguration

Paolo Barbieri, Cristina Di Stefano, Stefano Elia, Luciano Fratocchi and Cristina Pensa

Exploring self-assessment and other-assessment of cultural intelligence: An attribution theoretical perspective to surface potential bias blind spot

Alfred Presbitero

How do international springboard acquisitions impact intangible asset creation in foreign target firms? An international comparative analysis of emerging and developed market MNE acquirers

Ludan Wu, Dylan Sutherland and Qi Chen

Multicultural managers and competitive advantage: the second leg. Replicating the effect of managers' multicultural backgrounds on organizational performance

Mike Szymanski and Junbeom Park

Sustaining ecosystems amid geopolitical conflicts: Evidence from Chinese EMNEs

Yi Sun, Yong Lin and Yongjiang Shi

When agency theory weds prospect theory! How does VC–entrepreneur's dyadic interplay impact internationalization of a born global firm?

Rai Siddhant Sinha, M.K. Nandakumar and Martina Battisti