Journal of World Business

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): David Collings and Jonathan Doh

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Volume 60, issue 3, 2025

The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions

Dimitrija Kalanoski, Francesco Cappa, Michele Pinelli and Jean-Philippe Bonardi

Quantification of cultural practices and diversity: An empirical experiment with generative artificial intelligence

Wolfgang Messner

Exploring Corporate Philanthropy, Home Country Foreign Aid, and Country of Origin-Based Stigma for Multinational Enterprises: An Experimental Study

Yuehua Xu, Jiatao Li, Yimin Wang, Li Xin and Haichuan Zhao

Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad

Wolfgang Sofka, Nikolaos Papageorgiadis, Sreevas Sahasranamam and K.V. Mukundhan

Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze?

Anita Kerai and Nycil George

Negative performance feedback, CEO power and internationalization

Tao Bai, Abby Jingzi Zhou, Steven Shijin Zhou and Peter Liesch

Leveraging Multisectoral Expertise and International Knowledge: Business Group Influence on Overseas Subsidiary Formation

Anish Purkayastha, Andrew Delios and Vikas Kumar

Serving national security? MNE responses in economic war

Michael A. Witt and Luciano Ciravegna

Volume 60, issue 2, 2025

An advanced meta-ranking for the expanding international business field – Journal status and future trajectories

Heinz Tüselmann, Rudolf Sinkovics and Grigory Pishchulov

Revealing the promise of microfoundations for international business research: A modular approach

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

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

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

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

Rui Hou and Huaichuan Rui

International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research

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

Benjamin Philipp Krebs and Rüdiger Kabst

Network effects, word of mouth, and entry performance: A study of digital freemium products

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

Cristina Popescu and Markus Pudelko

Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry

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

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

Mohammad Fuad, Mohsen Mohaghegh and Shavin Malhotra

Should we stay or should we exit? Dilemmas faced by multinationals under sanctioned regimes

Htwe Htwe Thein, Anna Grosman, Sergey Sosnovskikh and Anton Klarin

Volume 59, issue 5, 2024

International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise

Peter J. Buckley, Peter Enderwick, Linda Hsieh and Oded Shenkar

Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens

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

Helena Barnard and John M. Luiz

Reducing freeloading in Global Virtual Teams: A quasi-experimental approach

Vas Taras, Matthew McLarnon, Piers Steel and Thomas O'Neil

Regional resilience during a trade war: The role of global connections and local networks

Canfei He, Jing Li, Wenyu Wang and Peng Zhang

The effect of sanctions on macro talent management: The case of Russia

Marina Latukha, Ilan Alon, Nikita Kuleshov and Vlad Vaiman

Volume 59, issue 4, 2024

Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets

Juan Bu, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Yadong Luo and Stephanie Lu Wang

Language and identity: The dynamics of linguistic clustering in multinational enterprises

Komal Kalra and Wade Danis

Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰

Tianyou Hu, Shu Yu and Andrew Delios

The mediated and moderated effects of IEO on international performance: An investigation of emerging market SMEs

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

Weiting Zheng, Yaqin Zheng, Jingtao Yi, Noman Shaheer and Sali Li

Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas

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

Vikrant Shirodkar, Rishika Nayyar and Sumati Varma

Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership

Nan Zhou

Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces

Hilla Back and Rebecca Piekkari

Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective

Philipp Volkmer, Matthias Baum and Nicole Coviello

Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms

Sylvie Chetty, Peter Gabrielsson and Mika Gabrielsson

Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward

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

Shengwen Li and Anthony Goerzen

State ownership and Chinese private firms’ OFDI in developed economies

En Xie, Fanshu Li, Zhan Wu and Vikas Kumar

From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams

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

Maria Lapeira, Georges Samara, Sumit Kundu and Arun Kumaraswamy

The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts

Ramzi Fathallah and Michael Carney

Cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market MNEs revisited: Inductive evidence from a machine learning analysis

Jianhong Zhang, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Chaohong Zhou and Shengyang Zhou

Unlearning diversity management

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

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

Amy E. Randel and Valerie Alexandra

The interplay of international alliance and subsidiary portfolios: Implications for firms’ innovation and financial performance

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?

Karoline M. Summerville, Victor Zitian Chen, Amir Shoham and Vasyl Taras

Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors

Nikolaos Kavadis, Niels Hermes, Jana Oehmichen, Alessandro Zattoni and Stav Fainshmidt

Foreign market exit in family firms: Do historical military and cultural frictions matter?

Sihong Wu, Francesco Chirico, Di Fan, Jiayan Ding and Yiyi Su