Journal of World Business

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): David Collings and Jonathan Doh

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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

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