Journal of World Business

1997 - 2025

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Volume 55, issue 6, 2020

The role of emotions in intercultural business communication: Language standardization in the context of international knowledge transfer

Qiu Wang, Jeremy Clegg, Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos and Peter Buckley

A communicative perspective on the trust-control link in Russia

Virpi Outila, Irina Mihailova, B. Sebastian Reiche and Rebecca Piekkari

The emergence of a communication climate in global virtual teams

Ella Glikson and Miriam Erez

A capabilities perspective on the joint effects of internationalization time, speed, geographic scope and managers’ competencies on SME survival

Joan Freixanet and Gemma Renart

What explains the degree of internationalization of early-stage entrepreneurial firms? A multilevel study on the joint effects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship, and home-country institutions

Miles M. Yang, Tianchen Li and Yue Wang

Communication and culture in international business – Moving the field forward

Betina Szkudlarek, Joyce S. Osland, Luciara Nardon and Lena Zander

Safety risk and international investment decisions

Kaitlyn DeGhetto, Bruce T. Lamont and R. Michael Holmes

Institutional Logics and the Internationalization of a State-Owned Enterprise: Evaluation of International Venture Opportunities by Telecom Finland 1987–1998

Zeerim Cheung, Eero Aalto and Pasi Nevalainen

Parent Firm Corporate Social Responsibility and Overseas Subsidiary Performance: A Signaling Perspective

Guoliang Frank Jiang, Jae C. Jung and Shige Makino

Asymmetric spillover effects from MNE investment

Andrea Ascani and Luisa Gagliardi

Shades of silence: Why subsidiary managers remain silent vis-à-vis their headquarters

Almasa Sarabi

Volume 55, issue 5, 2020

Compensating international mobility in a workers’ cooperative: An interpretive study

Jaime Bonache and Celia Zárraga-Oberty

Institutional quality and inclusive strategies at the base of the pyramid

Filip De Beule, Martin Klein and Ernst Verwaal

Institutional logics and social enterprises: Entry mode choices of foreign hospitals in China

Yijun Xing, Yipeng Liu and Christoph Lattemann

How does the global microfinance industry determine its targeting strategy across cultures with differing gender values?

Israel Drori, Ronny Manos, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut and Amir Shoham

International social SMEs in emerging countries: Do governments support their international growth?

Scuotto Veronica, Del Giudice Manlio, Tarba Shlomo, Messeni Petruzzelli Antonio and Chang Victor

The research frontier on internationalization of social enterprises

Ilan Alon, Roy Mersland, Martina Musteen and Trond Randøy

Liability of Foreignness and the Constitutive Legitimation of Foreign Firms in a Host Country

Yuping Zeng and Dean Xu

Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization

Rolv Petter Amdam, Randi Lunnan, Ove Bjarnar and Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse

How institutions affect CSR practices in the Middle East and North Africa: A critical review

Dima Jamali, Tanusree Jain, Georges Samara and Edwina Zoghbi

Multiple interpretations of “national culture” and the implications for International business: The case of Taiwan

Fiona Moore

Volume 55, issue 4, 2020

Subsidiary autonomy and subsidiary performance: A meta-analysis

Jose-Mauricio Galli Geleilate, Daniel S. Andrews and Stav Fainshmidt

Global value chain governance: Intersections with international business

Sarah E. McWilliam, Jung Kwan Kim, Ram Mudambi and Bo Bernhard Nielsen

Business groups and internationalization: Effective identification and future agenda

Ruth V. Aguilera, Rafel Crespí-Cladera, Paula M. Infantes and Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster

The impact of market based institutional reforms on firm strategy and performance: Review and extension

Luis Alfonso Dau, Elizabeth M. Moore and Tatiana Kostova

Going subnational: A literature review and research agenda

Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Tanja Matt and Ingo Kleindienst

When political instability devaluates home-host ties

Caroline T. Witte, Martijn Burger and Enrico Pennings

Patent enforcement across 51 countries – Patent enforcement index 1998–2017

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis and Wolfgang Sofka

The emotional benefits and performance costs of building a psychologically safe language climate in MNCs

Niina Nurmi and Johanna Koroma

Environmental sustainability practices and exports: The interplay of strategy and institutions in Latin America

Punit Arora and Prabal De

“Us versus them”: Sensemaking and identity processes in skilled migrants’ experiences of occupational downgrading

Dulini Fernando and Gerardo Patriotta

Volume 55, issue 3, 2020

International orientation of Chinese internet SMEs: Direct and indirect effects of foreign and indigenous social networking site use

Christopher Williams, Juana Du and Hongzhong Zhang

Uncovering neglected success factors in post-acquisition reverse capability transfer: Evidence from Chinese multinational corporations in Europe

Qi Ai and Hui Tan

Can you do Kung Fu and also act? New entrants’ status attainment in the creative industries

Andrew V. Shipilov, Stan Xiao Li and Wan Li

Effect of generational status on immigrants’ intentions to start new ventures: The role of cognitions

Ratan J.S. Dheer and Tomasz Lenartowicz

Self-categorization as a nonmarket strategy for MNE subsidiaries: Tracking the international expansion of an online platform

Corentin Curchod, Gerardo Patriotta and Mike Wright

The role of government affiliation in explaining firm innovativeness and profitability in emerging countries: Evidence from China

Chengqi Wang, Mario Kafouros, Jingtao Yi, Junjie Hong and Panagiotis Ganotakis

Theorizing MNE-NGO conflicts in state-capitalist contexts: Insights from the Greenpeace, Gazprom and the Russian state dispute in the Arctic

Sofia Villo, Minna Halme and Tiina Ritvala

Tax Morale and International Tax Evasion

David Kemme, Bhavik Parikh and Tanja Steigner

International diversification of family-dominant firms: Integrating socioemotional wealth and behavioral theory of the firm

Kai Xu, Michael A. Hitt and Li Dai

National culture and incentives: Are incentive practices always good?

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

Volume 55, issue 2, 2020

The impact of industry-wide and target market environmental hostility on entrepreneurial leadership in mergers and acquisitions

Andreas Strobl, Florian Bauer and Kurt Matzler

Boundary spanners, HRM practices, and reverse knowledge transfer: The case of Chinese cross-border acquisitions

Yipeng Liu and Klaus Meyer

Impact of the female board members and gaps in linguistic gender marking on cross-border M&A

Ofra Bazel-Shoham, Sang Mook Lee, Michael J. Rivera and Amir Shoham

Employee emotional resilience during post-merger integration across national boundaries: Rewards and the mediating role of fairness norms

Zaheer Khan, Vivek Soundararajan, Geoffrey Wood and Mohammad Faisal Ahammad

Fostering integration through HRM practices: An empirical examination of absorptive capacity and knowledge transfer in cross-border M&As

Abby Jingzi Zhou, Carl Fey and H. Emre Yildiz

Network complementaries in the international expansion of emerging market firms

Jie Wu and Siah Hwee Ang

Actualization of growth potential in international joint ventures: The moderating effects of localization strategies

Sangcheol Song

Ownership in cross-border acquisitions and entry timing of the target firm

Lucio Fuentelsaz, Elisabet Garrido and Minerva González

Multinational enterprises’ risk mitigation strategies in emerging markets: A political coalition perspective

Ying Zhu and Deepak Sardana

Multinational country risk: Exposure to asset holding risk and operating risk in international business

Seyda Z. Deligonul

Risk in international business and its mitigation

S. Tamer Cavusgil, Seyda Deligonul, Pervez N. Ghauri, Vassiliki Bamiatzi, Byung Il Park and Kamel Mellahi

Volume 55, issue 1, 2020

New venture adaptation in international markets: A goal orientation theory perspective

Anne Domurath, Nicole Coviello, Holger Patzelt and Benjamin Ganal

The role of spirituality in Islamic business networks: The case of internationalizing Turkish SMEs

Yusuf Kurt, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf Sinkovics and Mo Yamin

New venture internationalization: The role of venture capital types and reputation

Sarah Park and Joseph A. LiPuma

Which regions matter for MNEs? The role of regional and firm level differences

Mehmet Demirbag, Keith W. Glaister and Abhijit Sengupta

Antecedents and performance effect of managerial misperception of institutional differences

Clarissa E. Weber, Dominik Chahabadi and Indre Maurer

When do firms choose global cities as foreign investment locations within countries? The roles of contextual distance, knowledge intensity, and target-country experience

Rene Belderbos, Helen S. Du and Arjen Slangen

Intersectional arithmetic: How gender, race and mother tongue combine to impact immigrants’ work outcomes

Stacey R. Fitzsimmons, Jen Baggs and Mary Yoko Brannen

International business-government relations: The risk management strategies of MNEs in emerging economies

Quyen Thao Dang, Pavlina Jasovska and Hussain Gulzar Rammal

Antecedents and outcomes of digital platform risk for international new ventures’ internationalization

Jean, Ruey-Jer “Bryan”, Daekwan Kim and Erin Cavusgil