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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	62
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	58
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	49
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	46
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	43
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	28
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	26
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	25
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	21
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	20
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	18
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	17
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	17
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	16
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	16
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	15
Profitability and drug discovery	15
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	15
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	15
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	14
Announcement: the 2021 Richard R. Nelson Prize awarded by the editors of Industrial and Corporate Change and Research Policy	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	13
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	13
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	12
External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	12

Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	12
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	11
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	11
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	11
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	11
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	11
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	11
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	10
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	10
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	9
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	9
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	9
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	9
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	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
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	9
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	8
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	8
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	8
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	8
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	7
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	7
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	7
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	7
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	7
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	7
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	7
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	6
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6
Platform mergers and antitrust	6
Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	6
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	6
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	6
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	6
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	5
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	5
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	5
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	5
Corporate taxation and market power wealth	5

Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	5
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	5
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	5
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	5
Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	5
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	4
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	4
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	4
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	4
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	4
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution	4
Being small at the right moment: Path dependence after a shift in the technological regime	4
Expansion modes of foreign subsidiaries by multinational corporations	4
The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	4
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	3
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	3
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	3
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	3
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	3
Open Science, Paul David, and the commons	3
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	3
Correction to: dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	3
From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: at the roots of productivity slowdown	3
Putting intangible inputs and global value chains into work: New sources of manufacturing comparative advantage in global markets	3
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	3
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	3
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	3
Exploration, exploitation, and mode of market entry: acquisition versus internal development by Amazon and Alphabet	3
Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice	3
The technological regime and barriers to entry	3
Machine learning for zombie hunting: predicting distress from firms’ accounts and missing values	3
Innovation on technological “islands”: domain contrast, boundary spanning, knowledge depth and breadth	2
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	2
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	2
Subsidies for innovative start-ups and firm entry	2
Nonlinearities and expenditure multipliers in the Eurozone	2
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	2
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation	2
Is modularity robust to misfits? A formal test	2
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	2
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	2
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	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
Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	2
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	2
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	2
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	2
Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms	2
Is aging in the regional labor market wiping out localized external economies? Evidence from European manufacturing firms	2
Digital disruption and market structure: the case of internet banking	2
Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments	2