Journal of International Business Studies

1970 - 2025

Current editor(s): John Cantwell

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Palgrave Macmillan
Academy of International Business
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Volume 53, issue 9, 2022

Actionable guidelines to improve ‘theory-related’ contributions to international business research pp. 1843-1855

Grazia D. Santangelo and Alain Verbeke

The 2020 AIB curriculum survey: The state of internationalizing students, faculty, and programs pp. 1856-1879

Chuck C. Y. Kwok, Robert Grosse, Carl F. Fey and Marjorie A. Lyles

Towards integrating country- and firm-level perspectives on intellectual property rights pp. 1880-1894

Victor Cui, Rajneesh Narula, Dana Minbaeva and Ilan Vertinsky

Relational assets or liabilities? Competition, collaboration, and firm intellectual property breakthrough in the Chinese high-speed train sector pp. 1895-1923

Aurora Liu Genin, Justin Tan and Juan Song

Protecting intellectual property in foreign subsidiaries: An internal network defense perspective pp. 1924-1944

Yan Yan, Jiatao Li and Jingjing Zhang

Multinationals, innovation, and institutional context: IPR protection and distance effects pp. 1945-1970

Randolph Bruno, Riccardo Crescenzi, Saul Estrin and Sergio Petralia

How does offshore outsourcing of knowledge-intensive activities affect the exports and financial performance of emerging market firms? pp. 1971-1996

Peter J Buckley, Surender Munjal and Ignacio Requejo

Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness pp. 1997-2022

Helene Loe Colman, Birgitte Grøgaard and Inger G. Stensaker

International business studies: Are we really so uniquely complex? pp. 2023-2036

Herman Aguinis and Kelly P. Gabriel

Complexity in international business: The implications for theory pp. 2037-2049

Mark Casson and Yutong Li

Capitalizing on the uniqueness of international business: Towards a theory of place, space, and organization pp. 2050-2067

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk

International business research: The real challenges are data and theory pp. 2068-2087

Jean-Francois Hennart and Dylan Sutherland

Charting new courses to enter foreign markets: Conceptualization, theoretical framework, and research directions on non-traditional entry modes pp. 2088-2115

Keith D. Brouthers, Liang Chen, Sali Li and Noman Shaheer

How much is new in Brouthers et al.’s new foreign entry modes, and do they challenge the transaction cost theory of entry mode choice? pp. 2116-2132

Jean-Francois Hennart

Developing theoretically informed typologies in international business: Why we need them, and how to do it pp. 2133-2146

Matthew Allen, Geoffrey Wood and Mehmet Demirbag

Something borrowed, something new: Challenges in using qualitative methods to study under-researched international business phenomena pp. 2147-2166

A Rebecca Reuber, Sophie Alkhaled, Helena Barnard, Carole Couper and Innan Sasaki

Business lobbying in the European Union pp. 2167-2170

Thomas C. Lawton

Volume 53, issue 8, 2022

Actionable and enduring implications of Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost theory pp. 1557-1575

Jean-Francois Hennart and Alain Verbeke

Competition laws, ownership, and corporate social responsibility pp. 1576-1602

Wenzhi Ding, Ross Levine, Chen Lin and Wensi Xie

The dark side of globalization: Evidence from the impact of COVID-19 on multinational companies pp. 1603-1640

Omrane Guedhami, April Knill, William L. Megginson and Lemma W. Senbet

Governance tensions in MNCs’ accounting quality pp. 1641-1669

Tiemei Li, Michel Magnan and Yaqi Shi

Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises pp. 1670-1694

Shixiang Wang, Jiang Wei and Minyuan Zhao

Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research pp. 1695-1733

G. Tomas M. Hult, Forrest V. Morgeson, Udit Sharma and Claes Fornell

Controlling without owning – owning without controlling: A critical note on two extensions of internalization theory pp. 1734-1746

Mats Forsgren and Ulf Holm

Quasi-internalization, recombination advantages, and global value chains: Clarifying the role of ownership and control pp. 1747-1765

Christian Asmussen, Tailan Chi and Rajneesh Narula

Political corporate social responsibility: The role of deliberative capacity pp. 1766-1784

Richard W. Carney, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Jane W. Lu and He Wang

Tracing the connections between international business and communicable diseases pp. 1785-1804

Ivan Montiel, Junghoon Park, Bryan W. Husted and Andres Velez-Calle

Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions pp. 1805-1816

Liang Chen, Sali Li, Jiang Wei and Yang Yang

Digital platform attention and international sales: An attention-based view pp. 1817-1835

Jingyu Li, Yigang Pan, Yi Yang and Caleb H. Tse

The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry pp. 1836-1840

Constantin Blome, Stephan Manning and Martin C. Schleper

Correction: Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence pp. 1841-1841

Wenxia Ge, Jeong-Bon Kim, Tiemei Li and Jing Zhang

Volume 53, issue 7, 2022

Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research pp. 1307-1314

Thomas Lindner, Jonas Puck and Alain Verbeke

The influence of culture on the relationship between women directors and corporate social performance pp. 1315-1342

Valentina Marano, Steve Sauerwald and Marc Essen

Transporting transparency: Director foreign experience and corporate information environment pp. 1343-1369

Guanmin Liao, Mark (Shuai) Ma and Xiaoyun Yu

Do foreign firms help make local firms greener? Evidence of environmental spillovers in China pp. 1370-1393

Nahyun Kim, Junxiu Sun, Haitao Yin and Jon Jungbien Moon

How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution? An organizational knowledge creation perspective pp. 1394-1419

Heejin Kim, B. Sebastian Reiche and Anne-Wil Harzing

How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability pp. 1420-1448

Mario Kafouros, Niron Hashai, Janja Annabel Tardios and Elizabeth Yi Wang

Beyond “Doing as the Romans Do”: A review of research on countercultural business practices pp. 1449-1483

Dan V. Caprar, Sunghoon Kim, Benjamin W. Walker and Paula Caligiuri

Neglected elements: What we should cover more of in international business research pp. 1484-1507

Ilgaz Arikan and Oded Shenkar

What merits greater scholarly attention in international business? pp. 1508-1518

Birgitte Grøgaard, Michael A. Sartor and Linda Rademaker

Home-market economic development as a moderator of the self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects pp. 1519-1535

Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Christian K. Darko, Emanuel Gomes and David W. Lehman

When does multicollinearity bias coefficients and cause type 1 errors? A reconciliation of Lindner, Puck, and Verbeke (2020) with Kalnins (2018) pp. 1536-1548

Arturs Kalnins

Human behavior and judgment: A critical nano-foundation for the Uppsala model and international business studies pp. 1549-1555

Jan-Erik Vahlne and Roger Schweizer

Volume 53, issue 6, 2022

Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda pp. 985-1010

Luis Alfonso Dau, Aya S. Chacar, Marjorie A. Lyles and Jiatao Li

Does social trust affect international contracting? Evidence from foreign bond covenants pp. 1011-1044

Paul Brockman, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami and Ying Zheng

Societal trust, formal institutions, and foreign subsidiary staffing pp. 1045-1061

Ajai Gaur, Chinmay Pattnaik, Deeksha Singh and Jeoung Yul Lee

Informal institutions, entrepreneurs’ political participation, and venture internationalization pp. 1062-1090

Dan Li, Li-Qun Wei, Qing Cao and Deqiu Chen

Informal institutions and absorptive capacity: A cross-country meta-analytic study pp. 1091-1109

Fiona Kun Yao, Kaifeng Jiang, Danielle R. Combs and Song Chang

Understanding the unwritten rules of the game: Government work experience and salary premiums in foreign MNC subsidiaries pp. 1110-1132

Wolfgang Sofka, Christoph Grimpe and Ulrich Kaiser

The impact of multinational enterprises on community informal institutions and rural poverty pp. 1133-1152

Kristin Brandl, Elizabeth Moore, Camille Meyer and Jonathan Doh

Impact of informal institutions on the prevalence, strategy, and performance of family firms: A meta-analysis pp. 1153-1177

Pascual Berrone, Patricio Duran, Luis Gómez-Mejía, Pursey P M A R Heugens, Tatiana Kostova and Marc Essen

MNC response to superstitious practice in Myanmar IJVs: Understanding contested legitimacy, formal–informal legitimacy thresholds, and institutional disguise pp. 1178-1201

Tim G. Andrews, Khongphu Nimanandh, Khin Thi Htun and Orapin Santidhirakul

Public sentiment is everything: Host-country public sentiment toward home country and acquisition ownership during institutional transition pp. 1202-1227

Daphne W. Yiu, William P. Wan, Kelly Xing Chen and Xiaocong Tian

Formal and informal institutional legacies and inward foreign direct investment into firms: Evidence from China pp. 1228-1256

Chenjian Zhang

Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance pp. 1257-1281

Luis Alfonso Dau, Jiatao Li, Marjorie A. Lyles and Aya S. Chacar

Beyond the nation-state: Anchoring supranational institutions in international business research pp. 1282-1306

Simon Hartmann, Thomas Lindner, Jakob Müllner and Jonas Puck

Volume 53, issue 5, 2022

The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions pp. 803-817

Lorraine Eden, Stewart R. Miller, Sarfraz Khan, Robert J. Weiner and Dan Li

A dynamic long-term approach to internationalization: Spanish publishing firms’ expansion and emigrants in Mexico (1939–1977) pp. 818-849

Caterina Moschieri and Maria Fernandez-Moya

Complexity in a multinational enterprise’s global supply chain and its international business performance: A bane or a boon? pp. 850-878

Amalesh Sharma, V. Kumar, Sourav Bikash Borah and Anirban Adhikary

The impact of initial public offerings on SMEs’ foreign investment decisions pp. 879-901

Guoliang Frank Jiang, Jeffrey J. Reuer, Colette Southam and Paul W. Beamish

Foreign direct investment along the Belt and Road: A political economy perspective pp. 902-919

Jiatao Li, Ari Van Assche, Lee Li and Gongming Qian

Family-owned multinational enterprises in the post-pandemic global economy pp. 920-935

Andrea Calabrò, James J. Chrisman and Liena Kano

Leaving the multinational: The likelihood and nature of employee mobility from MNEs pp. 936-949

Martin Andersson, Davide Castellani, Claudio Fassio and Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol

The local roots of global entrepreneurship: Insights from Stephen Young pp. 950-961

Shameen Prashantham and Julian Birkinshaw

New connectivity in the fragmented world pp. 962-980

Yadong Luo

The power of creative destruction: Economic upheaval and the wealth of nations pp. 981-983

Peter J. Buckley

Volume 53, issue 4, 2022

Three simple guidelines to make the dynamic capabilities paradigm actionable in international business research pp. 573-582

Alain Verbeke

Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business pp. 583-600

Shaker A. Zahra, Olga Petricevic and Yadong Luo

Dynamic capabilities and internationalization of authentic firms: Role of heritage assets, administrative heritage, and signature processes pp. 601-635

Ilgaz Arikan, Ipek Koparan, Asli M Arikan and Oded Shenkar

Legitimizing, leveraging, and launching: Developing dynamic capabilities in the MNE pp. 636-656

Birgitte Grøgaard, Helene Loe Colman and Inger G Stensaker

Dynamic capabilities for hire – How former host-country entrepreneurs as MNC subsidiary managers affect performance pp. 657-688

Andreas P. Distel, Wolfgang Sofka, Pedro de Faria, Miguel Torres Preto and António Sérgio Ribeiro

The role of global dynamic managerial capability in the pursuit of international strategy and superior performance pp. 689-708

Sabina Tasheva and Bo Bernhard Nielsen

“Outside in”: Global demand heterogeneity and dynamic capabilities of multinational enterprises pp. 709-722

Xiao Zhang, Luqun Xie, Jiatao Li and Li Cheng

Global connectedness and dynamic green capabilities in MNEs pp. 723-740

Vladislav Maksimov, Stephanie Lu Wang and Shipeng Yan

Dynamic capabilities, the new multinational enterprise and business model innovation: A de/re-constructive commentary pp. 741-753

Chris N. Pitelis

Compositional springboarding and EMNE evolution pp. 754-766

Peter Ping Li, Shameen Prashantham, Abby Jingzi Zhou and Steven Shijin Zhou

Springboard MNEs under de-globalization pp. 767-780

Yadong Luo and Michael A. Witt

Revisiting emerging market multinational enterprise views: The Goldilocks story restated pp. 781-802

Ilgaz Arikan, Asli M. Arikan and Oded Shenkar

Volume 53, issue 3, 2022

Uneven regulatory playing field and bank transparency abroad pp. 379-404

Tai-Yuan Chen, Yi-Chun Chen and Mingyi Hung

Pride and prejudice: Unraveling and mitigating domestic country bias pp. 405-433

Peter Mathias Fischer, Katharina Zeugner-Roth, Constantine S. Katsikeas and Mario Pandelaere

Knowledge sourcing by the multinational enterprise: An individual creativity-based model pp. 434-448

Grazia D. Santangelo and Anupama Phene

Foreignness research in international business: Major streams and future directions pp. 449-480

Jane W. Lu, Hao Ma and Xuanli Xie

Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research pp. 481-515

Ilya R. P. Cuypers, Charmi Patel, Gokhan Ertug, Jiatao Li and Youtha Cuypers

National culture and international business: A path forward pp. 516-533

Oded Shenkar, Stephen B Tallman, Hao Wang and Jie Wu

Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires pp. 534-549

Alina Grecu, Wolfgang Sofka, Marcus M. Larsen and Torben Pedersen

Illusions of techno-nationalism pp. 550-567

Yadong Luo

The Sage handbook of contemporary cross-cultural management pp. 568-571

Yih-Teen Lee and Nana Yaa A. Gyamfi

Volume 53, issue 2, 2022

Replication studies in international business pp. 215-230

Luis Alfonso Dau, Grazia D. Santangelo and Arjen Witteloostuijn

Multinational enterprises and natural disasters: Challenges and opportunities for IB research pp. 231-254

Chang Hoon Oh and Jennifer Oetzel

Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view pp. 255-267

Daitian Li, Tony W Tong, Yangao Xiao and Feida Zhang

Subsidiary operations in offshore financial centers and bank risk-taking: International evidence pp. 268-301

Wenxia Ge, Jeong-Bon Kim, Tiemei Li and Jing Zhang

Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions pp. 302-325

Hamid Boustanifar, Edward J. Zajac and Flladina Zilja

Kicking back against kickbacks: An examination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US foreign investment pp. 326-343

Weishi Jia, Shuo Li and Jingran Zhao

A general framework of digitization risks in international business pp. 344-361

Yadong Luo

The last frontier of globalization: Trade and foreign direct investment in healthcare pp. 362-374

Oded Shenkar, Guoyong Liang and Rakefet Shenkar

Correction to: Running out of steam? A political incentive perspective of FDI inflows in China pp. 375-376

Danqing Wang, Zhitao Zhu, Shuo Chen and Xiaowei Rose Luo

Correction to: What’s so special about born globals, their entrepreneurs or their business model? pp. 377-377

Jean-Francois Hennart, Antonio Majocchi and Birgit Hagen

Volume 53, issue 1, 2022

The JIBS 2021 Decade Award: Theorising from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research pp. 1-3

Alain Verbeke

Reconciling theory and context: How the case study can set a new agenda for international business research pp. 4-26

Catherine Welch, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Rebecca Piekkari and Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki

Putting qualitative international business research in context(s) pp. 27-38

A. Rebecca Reuber and Eileen Fischer

Methodological fit for empirical research in international business: A contingency framework pp. 39-52

Gary Knight, Agnieszka Chidlow and Dana Minbaeva

Alternative typologies of case study theorizing: Causal explanation versus theory development as a classification dimension pp. 53-63

Eric W. K. Tsang

From a distance to up close and contextual: Moving beyond the inductive/deductive binary pp. 64-71

Mary Yoko Brannen

Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks pp. 72-93

Lifang Chen, Minghui Han, Yong Li, William L. Megginson and Hao Zhang

Correction to: Foreign ownership and corporate excess perks pp. 94-94

Lifang Chen, Minghui Han, Yong Li, William L. Megginson and Hao Zhang

Multiculturals as strategic human capital resources in multinational enterprises pp. 95-125

Hae-Jung Hong and Dana Minbaeva

MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio pp. 126-155

Jong Min Lee

The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade pp. 156-171

Farok J. Contractor

Why the world economy needs, but will not get, more globalization in the post-COVID-19 decade pp. 172-186

Luciano Ciravegna and Snejina Michailova

The impact of corruption on market reactions to international strategic alliances pp. 187-202

Chengguang Li and Jeffrey J. Reuer

Whither national subsidiaries? The need to refocus international management research on structures and processes that matter pp. 203-210

Tony Edwards, Luda Svystunova, Phil Almond, Philipp Kern, Kyoungmi Kim and Olga Tregaskis

The Oxford handbook of international business strategy pp. 211-214

Peter J. Williamson