Liena Kano

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Liena Kano is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Liena Kano has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 14 papers in Strategy and Management and 9 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Liena Kano's work include Family Business Performance and Succession (15 papers), International Business and FDI (10 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (9 papers). Liena Kano is often cited by papers focused on Family Business Performance and Succession (15 papers), International Business and FDI (10 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (9 papers). Liena Kano collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Liena Kano's co-authors include Alain Verbeke, Eric W. K. Tsang, Henry Wai‐chung Yeung, Peter W. Liesch, Nicole Coviello, Chang Hoon Oh, Luciano Ciravegna, Wenlong Yuan, Jean-Luc Arrègle and Sumit K. Kundu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of Management Studies.

In The Last Decade

Liena Kano

27 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature

2020 411 citations Liena Kano, Eric W. K. Tsang et al. Journal of International Business Studies profile →
Adapting the Uppsala model to a modern world: Macro-context and microfoundations

2017 287 citations Nicole Coviello, Liena Kano et al. Journal of International Business Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liena Kano Canada	20	1.5k	941	830	564	329	28	2.3k
Shameen Prashantham China	25	1.6k 1.1×	647 0.7×	495 0.6×	688 1.2×	319 1.0×	67	2.2k
Luciano Ciravegna Costa Rica	27	1.7k 1.1×	618 0.7×	619 0.7×	690 1.2×	513 1.6×	59	2.4k
Øystein Moen Norway	24	1.8k 1.2×	645 0.7×	533 0.6×	1.1k 2.0×	645 2.0×	39	2.8k
Per Servais Denmark	15	2.3k 1.6×	865 0.9×	578 0.7×	953 1.7×	505 1.5×	37	2.8k
Svante Andersson Sweden	26	2.0k 1.4×	800 0.9×	514 0.6×	924 1.6×	410 1.2×	85	2.6k
Xufei Ma Hong Kong	23	1.6k 1.1×	444 0.5×	932 1.1×	288 0.5×	444 1.3×	44	2.2k
Anthony Goerzen Canada	20	2.0k 1.4×	362 0.4×	712 0.9×	286 0.5×	499 1.5×	39	2.5k
Brian Pinkham United States	8	1.1k 0.7×	296 0.3×	647 0.8×	331 0.6×	291 0.9×	11	1.6k
Prescott C. Ensign Canada	16	890 0.6×	350 0.4×	314 0.4×	604 1.1×	313 1.0×	53	1.7k
Grazia D. Santangelo Italy	26	1.7k 1.2×	282 0.3×	448 0.5×	237 0.4×	710 2.2×	70	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liena Kano

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Li, Jiatao, et al.. (2025). The internationalization of digital platform-based firms: A systematic literature review and directions for future research. Journal of World Business. 60(4). 101629–101629. 4 indexed citations

Kano, Liena, et al.. (2025). Beyond reductionism: rethinking MNEs’ role in environmental crises. Journal of International Business Studies. 56(6). 795–806. 1 indexed citations

Calabrò, Andrea, James J. Chrisman, & Liena Kano. (2022). Family-owned multinational enterprises in the post-pandemic global economy. Journal of International Business Studies. 53(5). 920–935. 32 indexed citations

Kano, Liena, Rajneesh Narula, & Irina Surdu. (2022). Global Value Chain Resilience: Understanding the Impact of Managerial Governance Adaptations. California Management Review. 64(2). 24–45. 44 indexed citations

Arrègle, Jean-Luc, Francesco Chirico, Liena Kano, et al.. (2021). Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future. IRIS - Institutional Research Information System (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli). 109 indexed citations

Arrègle, Jean-Luc, Francesco Chirico, Liena Kano, et al.. (2021). Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of International Business Studies. 52(6). 1159–1198. 6 indexed citations

Kano, Liena, Eric W. K. Tsang, & Henry Wai‐chung Yeung. (2020). Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature. Journal of International Business Studies. 51(4). 577–622. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

Kano, Liena, Eric W. K. Tsang, & Henry Wai‐chung Yeung. (2020). Correction to: Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature. Journal of International Business Studies. 51(8). 1353–1353. 1 indexed citations

Kano, Liena & Alain Verbeke. (2019). Theories of the Multinational Firm: A Microfoundational Perspective. Global Strategy Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Ciravegna, Luciano, et al.. (2019). Corporate Diplomacy and Family Firm Longevity. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 44(1). 109–133. 47 indexed citations

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Kano, Liena & Alain Verbeke. (2018). Theories of the multinational firm: A microfoundational perspective. Global Strategy Journal. 9(1). 117–147. 79 indexed citations

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Coviello, Nicole, Liena Kano, & Peter W. Liesch. (2017). Adapting the Uppsala model to a modern world: Macro-context and microfoundations. Journal of International Business Studies. 48(9). 1151–1164. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kano, Liena & Alain Verbeke. (2017). Family firm internationalization: Heritage assets and the impact of bifurcation bias. Global Strategy Journal. 8(1). 158–183. 105 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Alain, Liena Kano, & Wenlong Yuan. (2016). Inside the regional multinationals: A new value chain perspective on subsidiary capabilities. International Business Review. 25(3). 785–793. 45 indexed citations

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Kano, Liena & Alain Verbeke. (2015). The Three Faces of Bounded Reliability: Alfred Chandler and the Micro-Foundations of Management Theory. California Management Review. 58(1). 97–122. 88 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Alain & Liena Kano. (2015). An internalization theory perspective on the global and regional strategies of multinational enterprises. Journal of World Business. 51(1). 83–92. 104 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Alain & Liena Kano. (2015). The New Internalization Theory and Multinational Enterprises from Emerging Economies: A Business History Perspective. The Business History Review. 89(3). 415–445. 114 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Alain & Liena Kano. (2012). The Transaction Cost Economics Theory of the Family Firm: Family–Based Human Asset Specificity and the Bifurcation Bias. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 36(6). 1183–1205. 278 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Alain & Liena Kano. (2012). The transaction cost economics (TCE) theory of trading favors. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. 30(2). 409–431. 41 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Alain & Liena Kano. (2012). An internalization theory rationale for MNE regional strategy. Multinational Business Review. 20(2). 135–152. 52 indexed citations

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