Encompassing 140 journal articles, 81 book chapters and 22 books (edited as well as monographs), his work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Organization Studies and several other leading journals, as well as published by leading publishers, such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.

Foss work has been cited by leading scholars in economics and management, including Mary Crossan, Giovanni Dosi, Kathleen Eisenhart, Robert Gibbons, Robert Grant, Geoff Hodgson, Richard Nelson, Ikujiro Nonaka, Brian Pentland, C.K. Prahalad, Richard Priem, Andrew Pettigrew, C. K. Prahalad, Richard Priem, Oliver Williamson, Sidney Winter, and many others. About a dozen of his papers have been reprinted in research handbooks, and several of his articles and books are translated into Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. His google scholar cites are above 10,000.