OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industrial and Corporate Change is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	62
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	35
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	26
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	22
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	20
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	20
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	19
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	18
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	17
Profitability and drug discovery	16
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	16
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	16
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	15
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	14
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	13
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	13
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	12
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	12
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	12
Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices	12
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	12
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	11
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	11
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	11
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	11

Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	10
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	10
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	9
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	9
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	9
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	9
Behind the curve: econometric estimation and sectoral decomposition of the Japanese Beveridge curve’s evolution around the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	9
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	9
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	9
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	8
Gender equality and firm innovation	8
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	8
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	8
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	8
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service innovations	8
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	7
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	7
A contribution to the theory of diffusion	7
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	7
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	7
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	7
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	6
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	6
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	6
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	6
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	6
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	6
Information technology use and economic growth	6
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	6
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	6
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	6
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	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	5
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	5
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	5
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes	5
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	5
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	4
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	4
Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	4
Corporate taxation and market power wealth	4
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	4
Employee spinouts along the value chain	4

The influence of financial constraints on participation in and the impact of public policies for private R&D	4
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	4
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	4
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	4
Expansion modes of foreign subsidiaries by multinational corporations	3
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	3
The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	3
Being small at the right moment: Path dependence after a shift in the technological regime	3
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	3
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution	3
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	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
Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	3
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	3
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	3
Machine learning for zombie hunting: predicting distress from firms’ accounts and missing values	3
The technological regime and barriers to entry	3
An equity-focused research agenda for workplace surveillance	3
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	3
Patent rewards and the recognition of women’s inventive performance and potential	2
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	2
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	2
Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation	2
Digital disruption and market structure: the case of internet banking	2
Is modularity robust to misfits? A formal test	2
Introduction to the special issue honoring Paul David	2
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	2
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	2
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	2
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	2
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	2
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	2
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	2
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	2
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	2
Correction to: dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
The impact of mergers on aggregate productivity: an empirical analysis using productivity decomposition	2
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	2
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	2
Subsidies for innovative start-ups and firm entry	2
Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments	2
Innovation on technological “islands”: domain contrast, boundary spanning, knowledge depth and breadth	2
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	2
Exploration, exploitation, and mode of market entry: acquisition versus internal development by Amazon and Alphabet	2
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	2
Open Science, Paul David, and the commons	2
Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	1
Regional static diversification and relatedness between industries	1
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	1
The interplay between volunteers and firm’s employees in distributed innovation: emergent architectures and stigmergy in open source software	1
Sectoral patterns of collaborative tie formation: investigating geographic, cognitive, and technological dimensions	1
Modular organization and informal structure: Modularity, performance, and the alignment of organizational networks	1
Mirroring in production? Early evidence from the scale-up of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)	1
What do R&D spillovers from universities and firms contribute to productivity? Plant level productivity and technological and geographic proximity in Japan	1
Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context	1
Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
What drives network evolution? Comparing R&D project and patent networks in the EU	1
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	1
Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms	1
How smart is a ‘smart factory’?: an organizational view	1
Modularity, life cycle and new entry without fundamental patents: lessons from the American household refrigerator industry before and after the great crash of 1929	1
Markups, profit shares, and cost-push-profit-led inflation	1
Homeowners’ financial vulnerability over the house price cycle	1
The organizational and technological origins of the U.S. shale gas revolution, 1947 to 2012	1
In search of markets and technology: the role of cross-border knowledge for domestic productivity	1
Nonlinearities and expenditure multipliers in the Eurozone	1
Digital technologies, learning capacity of the organization and innovation: EU-wide empirical evidence from a combined dataset	1
Industrial policy, local firm growth paths, and capability building in low-income countries: lessons from Ethiopia’s floriculture export sector	1
Is aging in the regional labor market wiping out localized external economies? Evidence from European manufacturing firms	1
Correction to: Employment and innovation in recessions: firm-level evidence from European Countries	1
Measuring the macroeconomic responses to public investment in innovation: evidence from OECD countries	1
The effect of technology and regulation on the co-evolution of product and industry architecture	1
Crowdsourcing routines: the behavioral and motivational underpinnings of expert participation	1
Correction to: Coopetition revisited: ambivalent impacts on drama program selection	1
Horizontal acquisitions of growth potential	1
How small is big enough? Open labeled datasets and the development of deep learning	1
R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth	1
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	1