Journal of World Business

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): David Collings and Jonathan Doh

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 58, issue 6, 2023

Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment

Mihaela Dimitrova, John Kammeyer-Mueller, Margaret A. Shaffer and Marlene Gruber

Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions

Luciano Ciravegna, David Ahlstrom, Snejina Michailova, Chang Hoon Oh and Ajai Gaur

Reconsidering, refashioning, and reconceptualizing research methodology in international business

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

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

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

Maksim Belitski, Jeff Martin, Tatiana Stettler and William Wales

Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change

Ivan Miroshnychenko, Kimberly A. Eddleston and Alfredo De Massis

Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory

Ravi S. Ramani and Herman Aguinis

CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs

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

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

Giulio Nardella, Irina Surdu and Stephen Brammer

A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies

Jasmin Mahadevan and Fiona Moore

Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry

Pavlina Jasovska, Hussain G. Rammal, Carl Rhodes and Danielle Logue

International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots

Francesca Ciulli and Ans Kolk

Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect

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

Murad A. Mithani

Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review

Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Heidi Wechtler and Zheng, Linglin (Gloria)

Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries

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

Alexandra Kriz, Maria Rumyantseva and Catherine Welch

Absorptive capacity, learning and profiting from outward FDI: Evidence from Canadian firms

Walid Hejazi, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang

Multinational family firms’ internationalization depth and breadth following the global financial crisis

Sebastian P.L. Fourné, Miriam Zschoche, Christian Schwens and Reddi Kotha

Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China

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

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

Claudio Fassio, Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi

Re-examining foreign subsidiary survival in a transition economy: Impact of market identity overlap and conflict

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

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

Maoliang Bu, Liang Xu and Ryan W. Tang

Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance

Gary Bowman, Roxane Foulser-Piggott and Paul W Beamish

To go or not to go? Opportunities as triggers of commitment to internationalisation

Joe Schembri, Margaret Fletcher and Trevor Buck

Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership

Ryan W. Tang

How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?

Rui Shen, Hai Guo and Hongjia Ma

Rethinking corruption in international business: An empirical review

Tao Wu, Andrew Delios, Zhaowei Chen and Xin Wang

The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs

Claudia Pongelli, Antonio Majocchi, Jonathan Bauweraerts, Salvatore Sciascia, Matteo Caroli and Alain Verbeke

How much does host country matter, really?

Daniel S. Andrews and Klaus Meyer

What's in a word? Adopting a linguistic-style analysis of western MNCs’ global press releases

Michael Antioco, Kristof Coussement, Chavi Fletcher-Chen and Christiane Prange

(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts

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

Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen and Ivo Zander

Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals

Irina Mihailova

Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role

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

Clarissa E. Weber and Indre Maurer

Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry

Peter J Buckley, Lin Cui, Liang Chen, Yi Li and Yoona Choi

International business under sanctions

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

Mila Lazarova, Paula Caligiuri, David G. Collings and Helen De Cieri

Understanding time in qualitative international business research: Towards four styles of temporal theorizing

Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Michael Gibbert

Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward

Snejina Michailova, Anthony Fee and Angelo DeNisi

International vertical alliances within the international business field: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Nadia Zahoor, Zaheer Khan and Oded Shenkar

A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture

Vas Taras, Piers Steel and Madelynn Stackhouse

Scale-ups and scaling in an international business context

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

Michael A. Witt, Arie Y. Lewin, Peter Ping Li and Ajai Gaur

Volume 57, issue 6, 2022

Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”

Nicholas R. Prince, Benjamin Krebs, J. Bruce Prince and Rüediger Kabst

Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations

Jing Zeng

Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit

Hyoungjin Lee and Chris Changwha Chung

Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms

Yong Wang, Xiaotao Yao and Kaige Li

Headhunter-assisted recruiting practices in foreign subsidiaries and their (dys)functional effects: An institutional work perspective

Vesa Peltokorpi

Temporal boundaries and expatriate staffing: Effects of parent–subsidiary work-time overlap

Jing Yu Yang, Liang Wen, Stefan Volk and Jane Wenzhen Lu

What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario

Walid Hejazi

Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience

Harald Puhr and Jakob Müllner

Introducing the eventful temporality of historical research into international business

Stephanie Decker

Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches

Aleksi Niittymies, Kalle Pajunen and Juha-Antti Lamberg

Legal distance and entrepreneurial orientation of foreign subsidiaries: Evidence from Southeast Asia

George O. White, Tazeeb Rajwani and Sorin M.S. Krammer

Volume 57, issue 5, 2022

Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis

Nicole Franziska Richter and Sven Hauff

How classical and entrepreneurial brand management increases the performance of internationalising SMEs?

Samuel Yaw Kusi, Peter Gabrielsson and Carsten Baumgarth

Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research

Tatiana Lukoianove, James Agarwal and Oleksiy Osiyevskyy

An FsQCA exploration of multiple paths to ecological innovation adoption in European transportation

Julia Hartmann, Andrew Inkpen and Kannan Ramaswamy

Context and contextualization: The extended case method in qualitative international business research

Duc Cuong Nguyen and John Tull

Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance

Panagiotis Ganotakis, Palitha Konara, Mario Kafouros and James H. Love

The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies

Xiaocong Tian

Temporality and the first foreign direct investment

Rolv Petter Amdam and Gabriel Benito

The effect of geographic scope on growth and growth variability of SMEs

Hadi Fariborzi, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy and Carlos DaSilva

Volume 57, issue 4, 2022

Actor legitimation in emerging markets: A network-embedded process

Jan Hermes and Tuija Mainela

Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions, technological gaps, and innovation performance of Chinese multinationals

Yanze Liang, Axèle Giroud and Asmund Rygh

Cultural diversity in top management teams: Review and agenda for future research

Yuliya Ponomareva, Timur Uman, Virginia Bodolica and Karl Wennberg

International collaboration and innovation: Evidence from a leading Chinese multinational enterprise

Xiaolan Fu, Fu, Xiaoqing (Maggie), Pervez Ghauri and Jun Hou

MNE market entry and social investment in battle-weary countries: Evidence from Heineken

Christopher Williams and Ruxandra Steriu

Performance feedback on sales growth goal and OFDI location choices for firms in emerging economies

En Xie, Alex Junyi Fang, Xin Chen, Zhan Wu and Vikas Kumar

Export promotion programs: A system-based systematic review and agenda for future research

Joan Freixanet

The interface of market and nonmarket strategies: Political ties and strategic competitive actions

Weiting Zheng, Siah Hwee Ang and Kulwant Singh

Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity

Wolfgang Messner

Volume 57, issue 3, 2022

Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration: the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust

Kentaro Mikami, Ikegami, Jusuke “jj” and Allan Bird

Practice creation in multinational corporations: Improvisation and the emergence of lateral knowledge

Emma Stendahl, Esther Tippmann and Ali Yakhlef

Lateral collaboration and boundary-spanning from a global leadership perspective: The case of global account managers

Sylvie Lacoste, Kenza Zidani and Javier Marcos Cuevas

How much lateral collaboration is optimal? Insights from computer simulations of MNEs as complex adaptive systems

Sokol Celo and Mark Lehrer

Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries

Davide Castellani, Alessandra Perri and Vittoria G. Scalera

Boundary-spanning coordination: Insights into lateral collaboration and lateral alignment in multinational enterprises

Diana Santistevan

Female executives and multinationals’ support of the UN's sustainable development goals

Valentin Kiefner, Alexander Mohr and Christian Schumacher

Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions

Qiuxia Zheng, Niels Noorderhaven and Jian Du

Outward FDI and Innovation Performance of Chinese Firms: Why Can Home-Grown Political Ties Be A Liability?

Chengqi Wang, Panagiotis Piperopoulos, Shihua Chen, Alan Au Kai Ming and Kendall Herbert

Organizational goals and resource allocation to overseas foreign direct investment

Tao Bai and Peter Liesch

Managing socio-political risk at the subnational level: Lessons from MNE subsidiaries in Indonesia

Christiaan Röell, Ellis Osabutey, Peter Rodgers, Felix Arndt, Zaheer Khan and Shlomo Tarba

Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda

Hussain G. Rammal, Elizabeth L. Rose, Pervez N. Ghauri, Peter D. Ørberg Jensen, Matthias Kipping, Bent Petersen and Moira Scerri

Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise

Gerard George and Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx

Volume 57, issue 2, 2022

Foreign market entry knowledge and international performance: The mediating role of international market selection and network capability

Oscar Martín Martín, Sylvie Chetty and Wensong Bai

Servant leadership across the globe: Assessing universal and culturally contingent relevance in organizational contexts

Mitchell J. Neubert, Mary Sully de Luque, Matthew J. Quade and Emily M. Hunter

“Generation Me”: An intra-nationally bounded generational explanation for convergence and divergence in personal vs. social focus cultural value orientations

Justin Marcus, David Carlson, Canan Ergin and Savas Ceylan

Returnee managers as an asset for emerging market multinational enterprises: Chinese cross-border acquisitions (2008–2017)

Zaiyang Xie and Liang Wang

Multinational enterprise parent-subsidiary governance and survival

Bassam Farah, Dwarka Chakravarty, Luis Dau and Paul W. Beamish

Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India

Alberto Ferraris, William Y. Degbey, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Stefano Bresciani, Sylvaine Castellano, Fabio Fiano and Jerome Couturier

The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda

Daniel S. Andrews, Stav Fainshmidt, Tina Ambos and Kira Haensel

The hows and whys of foreign operation mode combinations: The role of knowledge processes

Ciara O'Higgins, Tatiana Andreeva and Nekane Aramburu Goya

Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Nathaniel Boso and James Kofi Kutsoati

A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up

Niron Hashai and Shaker A. Zahra

Volume 57, issue 1, 2022

Who is doing “transnational diaspora entrepreneurship”? Understanding formal identity and status

Maria Elo, Florian Täube and Per Servais

Knowledge management of emerging economy multinationals

Shasha Zhao, Xiaohui Liu, Ulf Andersson and Oded Shenkar

Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda

Elaine Farndale, Maria Beamond, Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers and Shiyong Xu

Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework

Mario Kafouros, S. Tamer Cavusgil, Timothy M. Devinney, Panagiotis Ganotakis and Stav Fainshmidt

On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries

Helena Barnard and Anastacia Mamabolo

Towards a behavioral theory of MNC response to political risk and uncertainty: The role of CEO wealth at risk

Mirko H. Benischke, Orhun Guldiken, Jonathan P. Doh, Geoffrey Martin and Yanze Zhang

The role of context in SME internationalization – A review

John Child, Joanna Karmowska and Oded Shenkar

Liability of informality and firm participation in global value chains

Ana Colovic, Bisrat A. Misganaw and Dawit Z. Assefa

When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises

Lutz Preuss, Diego Vazquez-Brust, Natalia Yakovleva, Hamid Foroughi and Diana Mutti

The coevolution of international scope and technological knowledge in MNCs

Christian Geisler Asmussen, Niron Hashai and Andrew Delios