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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The enabling technologies of industry 4.0: examining the seeds of the fourth industrial revolution	101
Can self-regulation save digital platforms?	57
Is the fourth industrial revolution a continuation of the third industrial revolution or something new under the sun? Analyzing technological regimes using US patent data	47
An evolutionary perspective on economic catch-up by latecomers	41
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	36
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	34
The knowledge spillover of innovation	28
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	27
Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction	27
Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice	26
Innovation, upgrading, and governance in cross-sectoral global value chains: the case of smartphones	26
Platform mergers and antitrust	26
Economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective	22
How data shape actor relations in artificial intelligence innovation systems: an empirical observation from China	20
Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: concentrated power and distributed knowledge	19
Measuring the impacts of labor in the platform economy: new work created, old work reorganized, and value creation reconfigured	19
Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution: an introduction to the special section	18
Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model	16
Unscrambling the eggs: breaking up consummated mergers and dominant firms	16
Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies	16
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	15
Taking uncertainty seriously: simplicity versus complexity in financial regulation	14
The rise in inequality after pandemics: can fiscal support play a mitigating role?	14
The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay	13
Do not put eggs in one basket: related variety and export resilience in the post-crisis era	12

Patterns of integration in global value chains and the changing structure of employment in Europe	12
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	12
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	12
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	12
Personality characteristics and the decision to hire	12
Information and communication technologies and firms’ export performance	12
Competition law and digital ecosystems: Learning to walk before we run	12
Exploring new opportunities through collaboration within and beyond sectoral systems of innovation in thefourthindustrial revolution	11
Digital platforms and the transactions cost approach to competition law	11
Climate change and growth	10
Sectoral patterns of collaborative tie formation: investigating geographic, cognitive, and technological dimensions	9
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	9
Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context	9
Catch up of complex products and systems: lessons from China’s high-speed rail sectoral system	9
Catch-up and the entry strategies of latecomers: Chinese firms in the mobile phone sector	9
Deepening or delinking? Innovative capacity and global value chain participation in the IT industry	9
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	9
Social capital, resilience, and regional diversification in Italy	9
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	8
Reallocation and productivity during the Great Recession: evidence from French manufacturing firms	8
R&D collaborations along the industry life cycle: the case of German photovoltaics manufacturer	8
Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy	8
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	8
Sovereign debt default and inequality	8
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	7
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	7
Social progress and corporate culture	7
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	7
Learning in foreign and domestic value chains: the role of opportunities and capabilities	7
Design rules: past and future	7
The long-term economic effects of pandemics: toward an evolutionary approach	7
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	7
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	6
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	6
The “sailing-ship effect” as a technological principle	6
The power of modularity today: 20 years of “Design Rules”	6
Internationalization, value-chain configuration, and the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies	6
Within-firm inequality in workdays and labor productivity: evidence from linked employer–employee Italian data	6
Not all technological change is equal: how the separability of tasks mediates the effect of technology change on skill demand	6
Mirroring in production? Early evidence from the scale-up of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)	6
Research, innovation, and bankruptcy: evidence from European manufacturing firms	6
The EU vs US corporate R&D intensity gap: investigating key sectors and firms	6
Impact of sourcing from the informal economy on the export likelihood and performance of emerging economy firms	6
Knowledge intermediation strategies: a dynamic capability perspective	6
How digital transformation affects the cost of equity capital: the role of information disclosure quality and stock liquidity	5
Work flexibility and firm growth: evidence from LEED data on the Emilia-Romagna region	5
Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation	5
On the basis of brain: neural-network-inspired changes in general-purpose chips	5
Modular organization and informal structure: Modularity, performance, and the alignment of organizational networks	5
Successful transition to a market economy: an interpretation from organizational ecology theory and institutional theory	5

Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	5
Sources of inflation and the effects of balanced budgets and inflation targeting in developing economies	5
How context and attention shape behaviors in online communities: a modified garbage can model	5
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	5
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	5
The role of institutions in the early entrepreneurial process	5
Exploring the structure of internal combustion engine and battery electric vehicles: implications for the architecture of the automotive industry	5
External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	5
Green innovation strategies and firms’ internationalization	5
The pandemic economic crisis, precautionary behavior, and mobility constraints: an application of the dynamic disequilibrium model with randomness†	5
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	4
The impact of intellectual property rights on labor productivity: do constitutions matter?	4
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	4
Employment and innovation in recessions: firm-level evidence from European Countries	4
Blockchain as Schumpeter Mark 1 or Mark 2? An empirical analysis of blockchain job offers in France and Germany	4
The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	4
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	4
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	4
Market power and R&D investment: the case of China	4
The reluctant preference: communities of enthusiasts and the diffusion of atypical innovation	4
Knowledge exchange under asymmetric information in emerging economies: impact of signals from Indian universities	4
Assessing the collaboration and network additionality of innovation policies: a counterfactual approach to the French cluster policy	4
Profitability and drug discovery	4
The paradoxical effect of prior operating experience and observational learning on new market entry	4
Platform competition and complementor responses: insights from combining design rules with the comparative adjustment, transaction, and opportunity cost framework	4
Technological paradigms and the power of convergence	4
Understanding work in the online platform economy: the narrow, the broad, and the systemic perspectives	3
The effect of technology and regulation on the co-evolution of product and industry architecture	3
Innovation and competitiveness in the copper-mining GVC: developing local suppliers in Peru	3
Animate the cluster or subsidize collaborative R&D? A multiple overlapping treatments approach to assess the impacts of the French cluster policy	3
The organizational and technological origins of the U.S. shale gas revolution, 1947 to 2012	3
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	3
Knowledge generation and diffusion in the German wind energy industry	3
From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: at the roots of productivity slowdown	3
How does firm innovation size affect the timing of technology licensing? Theory and evidence from China	3
Are ideas getting cheaper? The European evidence	3
Markups, profit shares, and cost-push-profit-led inflation	3
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	3
A conceptual framework for latecomer linkage capabilities	3
Nonlinearities and expenditure multipliers in the Eurozone	3
Measuring the macroeconomic responses to public investment in innovation: evidence from OECD countries	3
That’s classified! Inventing a new patent taxonomy	3
Are start-ups funded by public venture capital different? New cross-country evidence from micro-data	3
Beyond the truce: how conflict affects teams’ decisions whether to enact routines or creative projects	3
The economic system question revisited	3
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	2
Economic fluctuations and pseudo-wealth	2
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	2
Technology, job characteristics, and retirement of aged workers: evidence from automation and IT adoption of firms in Korea	2
Debt-GDP cycles in historical perspective: the case of the USA (1889–2014)	2
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	2
Off the beaten path: what drives scientists’ entry into new fields?	2
Evaluating an organizational innovation: evidence from the conglomerate merger wave	2
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	2
Worker flows, reallocation dynamics, and firm productivity: new evidence from longitudinal matched employer–employee data	2
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	2
Absorption of foreign knowledge: the impact of immigrants on firm productivity	2
How Does Financial Development Affect the Growth–Inequality Nexus? Evidence from a PCHVAR Analysis	2
Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	2
Digital technologies, learning capacity of the organization and innovation: EU-wide empirical evidence from a combined dataset	2
Public procurement in Big Science: politics or technology? The case of CERN	2
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	2
Fighting the scarring effects of COVID-19	2
Disequilibrium macroeconometrics	2
How design rules emerge and evolve: a coevolutionary architectural perspective on firm and industry organization	2
Disarray at the headquarters: Economists and Central bankers tested by the subprime and the COVID recessions	2
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	2
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	2
When structural reforms of labor markets harm productivity. Evidence from the German IAB panel	2
Supporting innovative entrepreneurship: an evaluation of the Italian “Start-up Act”	2
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	2
Local search or beyond? The influence of interfirm technological distance on co-innovation success	2
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	2
Industrial policy against pandemics	2
Influence of genetic factors and institutional environment on entrepreneurial activity: evidence from a twin study in Italy	2
The utilization of cluster externalities and recessionary shocks	2
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	2