Founded in 1960, MIR published its 50th volume in 2010.

As of 2020, MIR's impact factor was 3.721[1] and its Google H-Index (as of July 2020) was 57.

MIR normally publishes six issues a year, often including select focused issues (called special issues before 2005)[2] focusing on a single aspect of international management.

[2] In 2005, his former PhD candidates Joachim Wolf and Michael-Jörg Oesterle succeeded him as editors in chief.

From 2005 to 2008, MIR's editorial office was at Christian Albrechts University of Kiel.