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 54, issue 6, 2019

The impact of foreignness on the compliance with cybersecurity controls pp. -

Waymond Rodgers, Eyad Alhendi and Feixue Xie

An integrative approach to the gender gap in entrepreneurship across nations pp. -

Ratan J.S. Dheer, Mingxiang Li and Len J. Treviño

Performance feedback and outward foreign direct investment by emerging economy firms pp. -

En Xie, Yuanyuan Huang, Charles E. Stevens and Sergey Lebedev

Understanding the interaction of motivation and opportunity for tax planning inside US multinationals: A qualitative study pp. -

Maggie Cooper and Quyen T.K. Nguyen

Capturing intranational cultural variation in international business research: Microsocietal differences in collectivism across Turkey pp. -

Justin Marcus, Fatma Kahraman, Shiyang Su and Barbara A. Fritzsche

Concurrent sourcing strategy of multinational firms in China: Drivers and performance implications pp. -

Min Ju, Janet Y. Murray, Gerald Yong Gao and Masaaki Kotabe

Trust and SME attitudes towards equity financing across Europe pp. -

Michael Dowling, O’Gorman, Colm, Petya Puncheva and Dieter Vanwalleghem

Bringing it all back home? Backshoring of manufacturing activities and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies pp. -

Bernhard Dachs, Steffen Kinkel and Angela Jäger

Volume 54, issue 5, 2019

The IB/ IHRM interface: Exploring the potential of intersectional theorizing pp. -

Ulf R. Andersson, Chris Brewster, Dana B. Minbaeva, Rajneesh Narula and Geoffrey T. Wood

Orchestrating international production networks when formal authority shifts pp. -

Randi Lunnan and Sara L. McGaughey

Does partnering with the World Bank shield investors from political risks in less developed countries? pp. -

Jonas Gamso and Roy C. Nelson

Mitigating post-acquisition risk: the interplay of cross-border uncertainties pp. -

Yimai Lewis and Konstantinos Bozos

Configurational characteristics of mandate portfolios and their impact on foreign subsidiary survival pp. -

Hyoungjin Lee, Chris Changwha Chung and Paul W. Beamish

Volume 54, issue 4, 2019

Corporate governance and MNE strategies in emerging economies pp. 234-243

Sumon Bhaumik, Nigel Driffield, Ajai Gaur, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Paul Vaaler

National institutional systems, foreign ownership and firm performance: The case of understudied countries pp. 244-257

Michael Carney, Saul Estrin, Zhixiang Liang and Daniel Shapiro

Lost in translation? Corporate governance, independent boards and blockholder appropriation pp. 258-272

Anna Grosman, Ruth V. Aguilera and Mike Wright

Leaving home: An institutional perspective on intermediary HQ relocations pp. 273-284

Alfredo Valentino, Jan Schmitt, Benno Koch and Phillip C. Nell

Value relevance of multinational directorship and cross-listing on MNEs national governance disclosure practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigeria pp. 285-306

Geofry Areneke and Danson Kimani

Beyond merger syndrome and cultural differences: New avenues for research on the “human side” of global mergers and acquisitions (M&As) pp. 307-321

Riikka M. Sarala, Eero Vaara and Paulina Junni

Institutional investors and international investments in emerging economy firms: A behavioral risk perspective pp. 322-334

Vidya Sukumara Panicker, Sumit Mitra and Rajesh Srinivas Upadhyayula

Potential and recognized boundary spanners in multinational corporations pp. 335-349

Kristiina Mäkelä, Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Mats Ehrnrooth and Alexei Koveshnikov

The belt and road initiative, cultural friction and ethnicity: Their effects on the export performance of SMEs in China pp. 350-359

Jiatao Li, Bin Liu and Gongming Qian

Backshoring strategy and the adoption of Industry 4.0: Evidence from Europe pp. 360-371

Alessandro Ancarani, Carmela Di Mauro and Francesco Mascali

Outward FDI and profitability of emerging economy firms: Diversifying from home resource dependence in early stage internationalization pp. 372-386

Lin Cui and Ying Xu

The acculturative stress of host country managers working at MNC subsidiaries: Determinants and effects pp. 387-398

Khan-Pyo Lee, Jun-Young Bae, Byung Hee Lee and Jang-Ho Choi

Re-conceptualizing intellectual property regimes in international business research: Foreign-friendliness paradoxes facing MNCs in China pp. 399-419

Prud’homme, Dan

Volume 54, issue 3, 2019

Globally networked: Intraorganizational boundary spanning in the global organization pp. 169-180

Torben Pedersen, Giuseppe Soda and Diego Stea

Not all international assignments are created equal: HQ-subsidiary knowledge transfer patterns across types of assignments and types of knowledge pp. 181-190

Florence Duvivier, Carine Peeters and Anne-Wil Harzing

Unfolding China’s state-owned corporate empires and mitigating agency hazards: Effects of foreign investments and innovativeness pp. 191-212

Zhu, JianJun (John), Caleb H. Tse and Xu Li

The effect of language use on the financial performance of microfinance banks: Evidence from cross-border activities in 74 countries pp. 213-229

Sougand Golesorkhi, Roy Mersland, Rebecca Piekkari, Grigory Pishchulov and Trond Randøy

Volume 54, issue 2, 2019

Unravelling agency relations inside the MNC: The roles of socialization, goal conflicts and second principals in headquarters-subsidiary relationships pp. 67-81

Björn Ambos, Sven Kunisch, Ulrich Leicht-Deobald and Adrian Schulte Steinberg

Global talent management: A life cycle view of the interaction between human and social capital pp. 82-92

Bret Crane and Christopher J. Hartwell

How outside directors’ human and social capital create value for corporate international investments pp. 93-106

Jung-Ho Lai, Li-Yu Chen and Sangcheol Song

Merger waves, entry-timing, and cross-border acquisition completion: A frictional lens perspective pp. 107-118

Mohammad Fuad and Ajai S. Gaur

Domestic competitor influence on internationalizing SMEs as an industry evolves pp. 119-136

Denis Odlin

Alliance capabilities, interpartner attributes, and performance outcomes in international strategic alliances pp. 137-153

Matthew J. Robson, Constantine S. Katsikeas, Bodo B. Schlegelmilch and Barbara Pramböck

Export market re-entry: Time-out period and price/quality dynamisms pp. 154-168

Jieke Chen, Carlos M.P. Sousa and Xinming He

Volume 54, issue 1, 2019

Forgotten or not? Home country embeddedness and returnee entrepreneurship pp. 1-13

Daomi Lin, Wei Zheng, Jiangyong Lu, Xiaohui Liu and Mike Wright

Developing cross-cultural competencies through international corporate volunteerism pp. 14-23

Paula Caligiuri, Ahsiya Mencin, Brad Jayne and Allison Traylor

Expatriate utilization, subsidiary knowledge creation and performance: The moderating role of subsidiary strategic context pp. 24-36

Norifumi Kawai and Chul Chung

Gender in international business journals: A review and conceptualization of MNCs as gendered social spaces pp. 37-53

Alexei Koveshnikov, Janne Tienari and Rebecca Piekkari

International business and human rights: A research agenda pp. 54-65

Florian Wettstein, Elisa Giuliani, Grazia Santangelo and Günter K. Stahl

Volume 53, issue 6, 2018

Bridging the great divide? Making sense of the human rights-CSR relationship in UK multinational companies pp. 781-793

Louise J. Obara and Ken Peattie

Finding good relationships – intended and realized relational governance of international fine wine exchanges pp. 794-805

Chris Ellegaard and Christopher J. Medlin

Repatriate knowledge transfer: Antecedents and boundary conditions of a dyadic process pp. 806-816

Anne Burmeister, Mila B. Lazarova and Jürgen Deller

What and how do SMEs gain by going international? A longitudinal investigation of financial and intellectual resource growth pp. 817-834

Lei Li, Dan Li, Anthony Goerzen and Shi, Weilei (Stone)

Migrants and multinational firms: The role of institutional affinity and connectedness in FDI pp. 835-849

Pallavi Shukla and John Cantwell

Why does the diffusion of environmental management standards differ across countries? The role of formal and informal institutions in the adoption of ISO 14001 pp. 850-861

Raquel Orcos, Beatriz Pérez-Aradros and Knut Blind

Board composition, family ownership, institutional distance and the foreign equity ownership strategies of Turkish MNEs pp. 862-879

Tulay Ilhan-Nas, Tarhan Okan, Ekrem Tatoglu, Mehmet Demirbag, Geoffrey Wood and Keith W. Glaister

Not walking the talk? How host country cultural orientations may buffer the damage of corporate values’ misalignment in multinational corporations pp. 880-895

Dana Minbaeva, Larissa Rabbiosi and Günter K. Stahl

The role of MNEs’ internationalization patterns in their regional integration of FDI locations pp. 896-910

Jean-Luc Arregle, Toyah L. Miller, Michael A. Hitt and Paul W. Beamish

Why wait? Organizational learning, institutional quality and the speed of foreign market re-entry after initial entry and exit pp. 911-929

Irina Surdu, Kamel Mellahi, Keith W. Glaister and Giulio Nardella

A double-edged sword? The antipodal effects of institutional distance on partner selection in cross-border alliances pp. 930-943

Sorin M.S. Krammer

The evaluative legitimacy of social entrepreneurship in capitalist welfare systems pp. 944-957

Ewald Kibler, Virva Salmivaara, Pekka Stenholm and Siri Terjesen

The selection, use, and reporting of control variables in international business research: A review and recommendations pp. 958-968

Bo Bernhard Nielsen and Arpit Raswant

Volume 53, issue 5, 2018

Escape FDI and the dynamics of a cumulative process of institutional misalignment and contestation: Stress, strain and failure pp. 605-619

Helena Barnard and John Luiz

No place like home? How EMNCs from hyper turbulent contexts internationalize by sequentially arbitraging rents, values, and scales abroad pp. 620-631

Ramzi Fathallah, Oana Branzei and Jean-Louis Schaan

Home bitter home: How labor protection influences firm offshoring pp. 632-640

David H. Weng and Mike W. Peng

Institutional compatibility and the internationalization of Chinese SOEs: The moderating role of home subnational institutions pp. 641-652

Jing Li, Jun Xia, Daniel Shapiro and Zhouyu Lin

The interplay between home and host country institutions in an emerging market context: Private equity in Latin America pp. 653-667

Santiago Mingo, Marc Junkunc and Francisco Morales

The autocratic advantage: Internationalization of state-owned multinationals pp. 668-681

L. Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss and Janja A. Tardios

An institutional work view toward the internationalization of emerging market firms pp. 682-694

Zheng Joseph Yan, Jiuhua Cherrie Zhu, Di Fan and Paul Kalfadellis

Domestic political connections and international expansion: It's not only ‘who you know’ that matters pp. 695-711

Laura Fernández-Méndez, Esteban García-Canal and Mauro F. Guillén

Disseminative capacity and knowledge acquisition from foreign partners in international joint ventures pp. 712-724

Dana Minbaeva, Chansoo Park, Ilan Vertinsky and Yeon Sung Cho

Extending the international new venture phenomenon to digital platform providers: A longitudinal case study pp. 725-739

Arto Ojala, Natasha Evers and Alex Rialp

Managing institutional distance: Examining how firm-specific advantages impact foreign subsidiary CEO staffing pp. 740-751

Marketa Rickley and Samina Karim

How Chinese companies deal with a legitimacy imbalance when acquiring firms from developed economies pp. 752-767

Hongjuan Zhang, Michael N. Young, Justin Tan and Weizheng Sun

SME internationalization beyond exporting: A knowledge-based perspective across managers and advisers pp. 768-779

Maria-Cristina Stoian, Pavlos Dimitratos and Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki

Volume 53, issue 4, 2018

Complements or substitutes? A meta-analysis of the role of integration mechanisms for knowledge transfer in the MNE network pp. 415-432

Rong Zeng, Birgitte Grøgaard and Piers Steel

Americanization as a driver of CEO pay in Europe: The moderating role of CEO power pp. 433-451

Stefan Schmid, Frederic Altfeld and Tobias Dauth

Expatriates as influencers in global work arrangements: Their impact on foreign-subsidiary employees’ ESOP participation pp. 452-462

Carolin Ahrens, Jana Oehmichen and Michael Wolff

A cross-cultural meta-analysis of how leader emotional intelligence influences subordinate task performance and organizational citizenship behavior pp. 463-474

Chao Miao, Ronald H. Humphrey and Shanshan Qian

Building subsidiary local responsiveness: (When) does the directionality of intrafirm knowledge transfers matter? pp. 475-492

Zhaleh Najafi-Tavani, Matthew J. Robson, Ghasem Zaefarian, Ulf Andersson and Chong Yu

Frequency of international expansion through high control market expansion modes and interlocked directorships pp. 493-503

Siah Hwee Ang, Mirko H. Benischke and Andrea Wai-Leng Hooi

Private information, institutional distance, and the failure of cross-border acquisitions: Evidence from the banking sector in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 504-513

Sumon Bhaumik, Oluwarotimi Owolabi and Sarmistha Pal

Emerging Economy MNEs: How does home country munificence matter? pp. 514-528

Saul Estrin, Klaus Meyer and Adeline Pelletier

Product innovation and decision-making autonomy in subsidiaries of multinational companies pp. 529-539

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Bjoern Jindra

Subsidiary coopetition competence: Navigating subsidiary evolution in the multinational corporation pp. 540-554

Esther Tippmann, Pamela Sharkey Scott, Marty Reilly and O’Brien, Donal

Capital market liability of foreignness of IPO firms pp. 555-567

Christina H. Tupper, Orhun Guldiken and Mirko Benischke

To elevate or to duplicate? Experiential learning, host-country institutions, and MNE post-entry commitment increase pp. 568-580

Moritz Putzhammer, Stav Fainshmidt, Jonas Puck and Arjen Slangen

Export strategy, export intensity and learning: Integrating the resource perspective and institutional perspective pp. 581-592

Wei Wang and Hao Ma

Volume 53, issue 3, 2018

Contextualizing international business research: Enhancing rigor and relevance pp. 303-306

Mary B. Teagarden, Mary Ann Von Glinow and Kamel Mellahi

Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries pp. 307-322

Stav Fainshmidt, William Q. Judge, Ruth V. Aguilera and Adam Smith

Adapting adaptation: Expanding adaptive strategy theory to account for the East Asian business context pp. 323-336

Randy Fowler, Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos and Malcolm Chapman

Contextualizing international strategy by emerging market firms: A composition-based approach pp. 337-355

Yadong Luo and Juan Bu

Interactive visualization for research contextualization in international business pp. 356-372

Andreas P.J. Schotter, Olha Buchel and Vashchilko (Lukoianova), Tatiana

Willingness to rely on trust in global business collaborations: Context vs. demography pp. 373-391

Francis Bidault, José R. de la Torre, Stelios H. Zanakis and Peter Smith Ring

Global networks as a mode of balance for exploratory innovations in a late liberalizing economy pp. 392-402

Zaheer Khan, Rekha Rao-Nicholson and Shlomo Y. Tarba

Contextualizing international learning: The moderating effects of mode of entry & subsidiary networks on the relationship between reforms & profitability pp. 403-414

Luis Alfonso Dau

Volume 53, issue 2, 2018

Business group reputation and affiliates’ internationalization strategies pp. 93-103

Debmalya Mukherjee, Erin E. Makarius and Charles E. Stevens

Business group effects on the R&D intensity-internationalization relationship: Empirical evidence from India pp. 104-117

Saptarshi Purkayastha, Tatiana S. Manolova and Linda F. Edelman

The institutional determinants of private equity involvement in business groups—The case of Africa pp. 118-133

Bruce Hearn, Lars Oxelheim and Trond Randøy

International strategy and business groups: A review and future research agenda pp. 134-150

R. Michael Holmes, Robert E. Hoskisson, Hicheon Kim, William P. Wan and Tim R. Holcomb

When same is (not) the aim: A treatise on organizational cultural fit and knowledge transfer pp. 151-163

Sergey Morgulis-Yakushev, H. Emre Yildiz and Carl. F. Fey

Global norm of national treatment for patent uncertainties: A longitudinal comparison between the US and China pp. 164-176

Deli Yang and Sonmez, Mahmut (Maho)

Tax haven networks and the role of the Big 4 accountancy firms pp. 177-193

Chris Jones, Yama Temouri and Alex Cobham

Reshoring from a demand-side perspective: Consumer reshoring sentiment and its market effects pp. 194-208

Silvia Grappi, Simona Romani and Richard P. Bagozzi

Home country uncertainty and the internationalization-performance relationship: Building an uncertainty management capability pp. 209-221

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Luciano Ciravegna, Mauricio Melgarejo and Luis Lopez

Expatriates’ international opportunity recognition and innovativeness: The role of metacognitive and cognitive cultural intelligence pp. 222-236

Melanie P. Lorenz, Jase R. Ramsey and Robert Glenn Richey

Bifurcation bias and exporting: Can foreign work experience be an answer? Insight from European family SMEs pp. 237-247

Antonio Majocchi, D’Angelo, Alfredo, Emanuele Forlani and Trevor Buck

Subsidiary capability upgrading under emerging market acquirers pp. 248-262

Shaowei He, Zaheer Khan and Oded Shenkar

Culture’s effects on corporate sustainability practices: A multi-domain and multi-level view pp. 263-279

Christof Miska, Ilona Szőcs and Michael Schiffinger

A systematic approach to conducting review studies: An assessment of content analysis in 25years of IB research pp. 280-289

Ajai Gaur and Mukesh Kumar

Contextualizing speed and cross-border acquisition performance: Labor market flexibility and efficiency effects pp. 290-301

Florian Bauer, Svante Schriber, Daniel Degischer and David R. King

Volume 53, issue 1, 2018

Towards a holistic framework of MNE–state bargaining: A formal model and case-based analysis pp. 15-26

Jakob Müllner and Jonas Puck

Internationalization as a driver of the corporate social performance of extractive industry firms pp. 27-38

Pavlos C. Symeou, Stelios Zyglidopoulos and Peter Williamson

The internationalization paradox: Untangling dependence in multinational state hybrids pp. 39-51

Suzana B. Rodrigues and Marleen Dieleman

Multinational mining enterprises and artisanal small-scale miners: From confrontation to cooperation pp. 52-62

Natalia Yakovleva and Diego Alfonso Vazquez-Brust

How home country industry associations influence MNE international CSR practices: Evidence from the Canadian mining industry pp. 63-74

Sean Buchanan and José Carlos Marques

The impact of FDI in land in agriculture in developing countries on host country food security pp. 75-84

Grazia Santangelo

Multinational firms and the extractive sectors in the 21st century: Can they drive development? pp. 85-91

Rajneesh Narula