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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	82
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	59
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	54
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	46
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	43
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	42
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	42
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	26
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	25
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	24
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	24
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	21
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	20
Profitability and drug discovery	17
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	17
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	16
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	16
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	15
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	15
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	15
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	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
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	13
Corrigendum to: Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model	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
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	11
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
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
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	11
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	10
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	10
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	10
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	9
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	9
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	9
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	9
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	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	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
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	8
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	8
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	8
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	8
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	8
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	8
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	8
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	7
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	7
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	7
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	7
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	7
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	7
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	6
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	6
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	6
Corporate taxation and market power wealth	6
Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	6
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	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
Platform mergers and antitrust	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	6
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6

Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	6
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	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
Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	5
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	5
The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	5
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	5
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	5
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	5
Machine learning for zombie hunting: predicting distress from firms’ accounts and missing values	4
From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: at the roots of productivity slowdown	4
Expansion modes of foreign subsidiaries by multinational corporations	4
Putting intangible inputs and global value chains into work: New sources of manufacturing comparative advantage in global markets	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
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	4
Can self-regulation save digital platforms?	4
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	4
Being small at the right moment: Path dependence after a shift in the technological regime	4
Correction to: dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	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
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	3
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	3
The technological regime and barriers to entry	3
Open Science, Paul David, and the commons	3
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	3
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	3
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	3
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	3
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	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
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	3
Within-firm inequality in workdays and labor productivity: evidence from linked employer–employee Italian data	2
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	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
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	2
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	2
Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic	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
Is aging in the regional labor market wiping out localized external economies? Evidence from European manufacturing firms	2
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	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
Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	2
Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms	2
R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth	2
Nonlinearities and expenditure multipliers in the Eurozone	2
Subsidies for innovative start-ups and firm entry	2
Industrial policy, local firm growth paths, and capability building in low-income countries: lessons from Ethiopia’s floriculture export sector	2
Digital disruption and market structure: the case of internet banking	2
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	2
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	2
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	2
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	2
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
What drives network evolution? Comparing R&D project and patent networks in the EU	2