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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	77
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	55
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	55
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	48
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	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	39
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	39
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	26
Profitability and drug discovery	25
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	23
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	23
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	23
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	19
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	17
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	16
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	16
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	16
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	15
Corrigendum to: Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model	15
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	15
Announcement: the 2021 Richard R. Nelson Prize awarded by the editors of Industrial and Corporate Change and Research Policy	15
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	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	13

New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	13
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	13
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	12
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	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
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	11
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	11
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
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
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	9
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
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	8
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	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
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
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	8
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	8
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	8
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	8
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	8
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	8
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	8
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	7
Platform mergers and antitrust	7
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	7
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	7
Sovereign debt default and inequality	7
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	7
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	7
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	7
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	6
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	6
Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
The impact of intellectual property rights on labor productivity: do constitutions matter?	6
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	6
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	6
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	6
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	6
Gain initial endorsement from the core: market entry, initial partners, and embeddedness in the venture capital market	6
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	5
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	5

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