OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industrial and Corporate Change is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	75
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	53
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	49
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	45
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	45
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	40
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	37
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	34
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	32
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	25
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	23
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	22
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	21
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	21
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	20
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	18
Profitability and drug discovery	17
Corrigendum to: Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model	16
Announcement: the 2021 Richard R. Nelson Prize awarded by the editors of Industrial and Corporate Change and Research Policy	16
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	15
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	14
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	14
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	14
External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	14
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	14

Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	13
Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies	13
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	13
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	12
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	12
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	11
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	11
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	11
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	10
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	10
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	9
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	9
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	9
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	9
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service innovations	9
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	8
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	8
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	8
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	8
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	8
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	8
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	8
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	8
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	8
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	8
The paradox of China’s tobacco industry: competition through monopoly policy	8
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	8
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	8
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	8
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	7
Sovereign debt default and inequality	7
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	7
Shareholders’ greed and corporate value growth	7
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	7
Platform mergers and antitrust	7
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	6
Gain initial endorsement from the core: market entry, initial partners, and embeddedness in the venture capital market	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	6
The impact of intellectual property rights on labor productivity: do constitutions matter?	6
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	6
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	6
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	6
Assessing the collaboration and network additionality of innovation policies: a counterfactual approach to the French cluster policy	6
Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	5
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	5
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	5

The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	5
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	5
Are start-ups funded by public venture capital different? New cross-country evidence from micro-data	5
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	5
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution	5
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	5
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	5
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	5
Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	5
Machine learning for zombie hunting: predicting distress from firms’ accounts and missing values	5
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	5
Testing predictions on supplier governance from the global value chains literature	4
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	4
From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: at the roots of productivity slowdown	4
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	4
Can self-regulation save digital platforms?	4
Being small at the right moment: Path dependence after a shift in the technological regime	4
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	4
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	4
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	4
Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice	4
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	4
Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation	3
Exploration, exploitation, and mode of market entry: acquisition versus internal development by Amazon and Alphabet	3
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	3
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	3
The technological regime and barriers to entry	3
Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy	3
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	3
Is modularity robust to misfits? A formal test	3
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	3
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	3
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	3
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	3
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	3
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	3
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	3
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	3
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	3
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	3
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	3
Innovation on technological “islands”: domain contrast, boundary spanning, knowledge depth and breadth	3
Animate the cluster or subsidize collaborative R&D? A multiple overlapping treatments approach to assess the impacts of the French cluster policy	3
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	2
Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms	2
Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context	2
Nonlinearities and expenditure multipliers in the Eurozone	2
Regional static diversification and relatedness between industries	2
Is aging in the regional labor market wiping out localized external economies? Evidence from European manufacturing firms	2
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
Introduction to the Special Section “Economic Catch-up by Latecomers”	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	2
Correction to: Employment and innovation in recessions: firm-level evidence from European Countries	2
Industrial policy, local firm growth paths, and capability building in low-income countries: lessons from Ethiopia’s floriculture export sector	2
Digital technologies, learning capacity of the organization and innovation: EU-wide empirical evidence from a combined dataset	2
In search of markets and technology: the role of cross-border knowledge for domestic productivity	2
Subsidies for innovative start-ups and firm entry	2
Kindleberger in retrospect: the Federal Reserve’s dollar swap lines and international lender of last resort rules	2
Automation, digitalization, and changes in occupational structures in the automobile industry in Germany, Japan, and the United States: a brief history from the early 1990s until 2018	2
Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments	2
Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	2
R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth	2
What drives network evolution? Comparing R&D project and patent networks in the EU	2
Within-firm inequality in workdays and labor productivity: evidence from linked employer–employee Italian data	2
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	2
An evolutionary perspective on economic catch-up by latecomers	2
Digital disruption and market structure: the case of internet banking	2
Catch up of complex products and systems: lessons from China’s high-speed rail sectoral system	2