Journal of World Business

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): David Collings and Jonathan Doh

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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