Journal of World Business

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): David Collings and Jonathan Doh

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Volume 56, issue 6, 2021

Attributional complexity of monoculturals and biculturals: Implications for cross-cultural competence

C. Lakshman, Sabine Bacouël-Jentjens and Johannes Marcelus Kraak

Which export channels provide real options to SMEs?

Edith Ipsmiller, Keith D. Brouthers and Desislava Dikova

Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs

Dr. Wai Wai Ko, Prof. Yantai Chen, Dr. Cheng-Hao Steve Chen, Dr. Meng-Shan Sharon Wu and Prof. Gordon Liu

Entry into new foreign markets: Performance feedback and opportunity costs

Ohad Ref, Naomi Feldman, Dinesh N Iyer and Zur Shapira

Relieving status anxiety: How low-status firms respond to international status-heterophilous relationships

Xufei Ma, Ziliang Deng and Yi Tang

Caution ahead! The long-term effects of initial export intensity and geographic dispersion on INV development

Francisco J. Acedo, Nicole Coviello and María Agustí

Environmental innovation in foreign subsidiaries: The role of home-ecological institutions, subsidiary establishment mode and post-establishment experience

Palitha Konara, Carmen Lopez and Vikrant Shirodkar

Family ownership, market development, and internationalization of Turkish business groups (1925-2017)

Ayse Karaevli and Burcin Yurtoglu

Volume 56, issue 5, 2021

How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis

Peter Jaskiewicz, Joern Block, Dominik Wagner, Michael Carney and Christopher Hansen

‘If you use the right Arabic…’: Responses to special language standardization within the BBC Arabic Service’s linguascape

Marina P. Michalski and Martyna Śliwa

Emerging market internationalizing firms: Learning through internationalization to achieve entrepreneurial orientation

Anish Purkayastha, Vikas Kumar and Vishal K. Gupta

Global market integration, efficiency orientation, and drivers of foreign subsidiary divestments

Rene Belderbos, Federico De Michiel, Leo Sleuwaegen and Shubin Wu

Do within-subject standardized indices of societal culture distort reality? An illustration with the national Tightness culture scale

Sunil Venaik, David F. Midgley and Demetris Christopoulos

Foreign buyout of international equity joint ventures in China: When does performance improve?

Jing-Lin Duanmu and Thomas Lawton

Multinationals’ misbehavior

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Marleen Dieleman, Paul Hirsch, Suzana B. Rodrigues and Stelios Zyglidopoulos

Volume 56, issue 4, 2021

The dark side of trust in global value chains: Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries

Noemi Sinkovics, Liu, Chia-Ling (Eunice), Rudolf Sinkovics and Ram Mudambi

Career satisfaction of expatriates in humanitarian inter-governmental organizations

Mila Lazarova, Mihaela Dimitrova, Michael Dickmann, Chris Brewster and Jean-Luc Cerdin

Addressing psychic distance and learning in international buyer-seller relationships: The role of firm exploration and asset specificity

Steven Y.H. Liu, Seyda Deligonul, S. Tamer Cavusgil and Jyh-Shen Chiou

Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and incremental predictive validity

Christopher Schlaegel, Nicole Franziska Richter and Vasyl Taras

The (COVID-19) pandemic and the new world (dis)order

Michael A. Hitt, R. Michael Holmes and Jean-Luc Arregle

Strategic agility, environmental uncertainties and international performance: The perspective of Indian firms

Mohammad Faisal Ahammad, Shubhabrata Basu, Surender Munjal, Jeremy Clegg and Ofra Bazel Shoham

The nature of innovation in global value chains

Björn Ambos, Kristin Brandl, Alessandra Perri, Vittoria G. Scalera and Ari Van Assche

Beyond disciplinary silos: A systematic analysis of the migrant entrepreneurship literature

Noemi Sinkovics and A. Rebecca Reuber

Hierarchical modelling in international business research: Patterns, problems, and practical guidelines

Thomas Lindner, Jonas Puck and Jonathan Doh

Populism, political risk, and pandemics: The challenges of political leadership for business in a post-COVID world

Christopher Hartwell and Timothy Devinney

Unbundling the effects of host-country institutions on foreign subsidiary survival: A case for subsidiary heterogeneity

Yamlaksira S. Getachew and Paul W. Beamish

Exporting to escape and learn: Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains

Rui Torres de Oliveira, Tam Nguyen, Peter Liesch, Martie-Louise Verreynne and Marta Indulska

Volume 56, issue 3, 2021

Developing compositional capability in emerging-market SMEs

Jinyun Sun, Vladislav Maksimov, Stephanie Lu Wang and Yadong Luo

Corporate entrepreneurship, country institutions and firm financial performance

Tom Vanacker, Shaker A. Zahra and R. Michael Holmes

How founder characteristics imprint ventures’ internationalization processes: The role of international experience and cognitive beliefs

Robin De Cock, Petra Andries and Bart Clarysse

Social Media Firm Specific Advantages as Enablers of Network Embeddedness of International Entrepreneurial Ventures

Sara Fraccastoro, Mika Gabrielsson and Sylvie Chetty

The development of international e-commerce in retail SMEs: An effectuation perspective

Daniel Tolstoy, Emilia Rovira Nordman, Sara Melén Hånell and Nurgül Özbek

Strategic agility, dynamic relational capability and trust among SMEs in transitional economies

Frank Charles Nyamrunda and Susan Freeman

International springboard as an entrepreneurial act

Vladislav Maksimov and Yadong Luo

Why is export-oriented entrepreneurship more prevalent in some countries than others? Contextual antecedents and economic consequences

Sebastian Aparicio, David Audretsch and David Urbano

Global cities: A multi-disciplinary review and research agenda

Dwarka Chakravarty, Anthony Goerzen, Martina Musteen and Mujtaba Ahsan

The distinct contribution of investment promotion agencies’ branch offices in bringing Chinese multinationals to Europe

Jan Knoerich and Simon Vitting

An integrative approach to international inbound sources of firm-level innovation

Paloma Almodóvar, Quyen T.K. Nguyen and Alain Verbeke

Internationalization through foreign listing: A review and future research agenda

Anish Purkayastha and Vikas Kumar

Financial crisis of 2008 and outward foreign investments from China and India

Suma Athreye, Abubakr Saeed and Muhammad Saad Baloch

Retrospective and prospective learning: Accelerating the internationalization process

Margaret Fletcher, Simon Harris and Robert Glenn Richey

Agility and flexibility in international business research: A comprehensive review and future research directions

Michael Christofi, Vijay Pereira, Demetris Vrontis, Shlomo Tarba and Alkis Thrassou

Cohesion, COVID-19 and contemporary challenges to globalization

Andrew Delios, Gordon Perchthold and Alex Capri

Volume 56, issue 2, 2021

Are voluntary international migrants self-selected for entrepreneurship? An analysis of entrepreneurial personality traits

Peter Vandor

Multinational enterprises and the governance of sustainability practices in emerging market supply chains: An agile governance perspective

Vivek Soundararajan, Sreevas Sahasranamam, Zaheer Khan and Tanusree Jain

State capitalism in international context: Varieties and variations

Mike Wright, Geoffrey Wood, Aldo Musacchio, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Anna Grosman and Jonathan P. Doh

When value chains go South: Upgrading in the Kenyan leather sector

Giovanni P. Pasquali

Migrants and exports: Decomposing the link

Hongbo Cai, Yinghua Meng and Suparna Chakraborty

Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains

Giulio Buciuni and Gary Pisano

Follow the people and the money: Effects of inward FDI on migrant remittances and the contingent role of new firm creation and institutional infrastructure in emerging economies

Eleni E.N. Piteli, Mario Kafouros and Christos Pitelis

The impact of language barriers on knowledge processing in multinational teams

Helene Tenzer, Markus Pudelko and Mary Zellmer-Bruhn

Mapping the terrain of international human resource management research over the past fifty years: A bibliographic analysis

Di Fan, Cherrie J. Zhu, Xinli Huang and Vikas Kumar

Host country corporate income tax rate and foreign subsidiary survival

Bassam Farah, Rida Elias, Dwarka Chakravarty and Paul Beamish

Global migrants: Understanding the implications for international business and management

Aida Hajro, Dan V. Caprar, Jelena Zikic and Günter K. Stahl

Unraveling asset recombination through the lens of firm-specific advantages: A dynamic capabilities perspective

Jong Min Lee, Rajneesh Narula and Jenny Hillemann

Volume 56, issue 1, 2021

State ownership and internationalization: The advantage and disadvantage of stateness

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and Cheng Li

State ownership, political ideology, and firm performance around the world

Ruth Aguilera, Patricio Duran, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, Steve Sauerwald, Roxana Turturea and Marc VanEssen

International entrepreneurship in the post Covid world

Shaker A. Zahra

Riding the waves of family firm internationalization: A systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda

Francesco Debellis, Emanuela Rondi, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Alfredo De Massis

Reciprocity and informal institutions in international market entry

Jean J. Boddewyn and Mike W. Peng

Managing internationalization and innovation tradeoffs in entrepreneurial firms: Evidence from transition economies

Mona Bahl, Somnath Lahiri and Debmalya Mukherjee