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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	89
Uncovering collaborative patterns and transition dynamics in R&D projects: a longitudinal analysis of EU Framework Programmes	55
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	44
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	41
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	39
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	36
Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices	28
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	23
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	22
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	22
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	22
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	19
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	18
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	15
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	14
Measuring artificial intelligence: a systematic assessment and implications for governance	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
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	14
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	14
If the state is incompetent, do it yourself: private alliance as an institutional architect in the catch-up process	13
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	13
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	13
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	13
Competitiveness divergence in the euro area: rediscovering Kaldorian cumulative causation	13
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	12

Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance: do breadth and depth of external knowledge search matter?	12
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	11
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	11
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	11
Do UK research and collaborations in R&I promote economic prosperity and leveling-up? An analysis of UKRI funding between 2004 and 2021	11
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	10
Digital economy policy and corporate sustainable development: evidence from China’s national big data comprehensive pilot zone	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	10
Behind the curve: econometric estimation and sectoral decomposition of the Japanese Beveridge curve’s evolution around the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	9
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
From innovation versus equity to innovation and equity	8
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	8
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	8
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	8
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	8
Gender equality and firm innovation	8
A contribution to the theory of diffusion	8
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	7
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	7
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	7
Tensions in transforming an innovation policy paradigm: contextual variation and reflexive governance	7
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	7
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	7
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	7
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	7
Quality- or/and category-based output control strategies for user-generated content platforms	7
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	7
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	7
Information technology use and economic growth	7
“Rich-get-richer”? Platform attention and earnings inequality using Patreon earnings data	7
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	6
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	6
Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	6
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes	6
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6
Temporal dynamic effects of public innovation subsidies on firms’ significant innovation outcomes	6
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	5
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	5
Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	5
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	5
The influence of financial constraints on participation in and the impact of public policies for private R&D	5
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	5
Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	5

Industry concentration in Europe and North America	5
Corporate taxation and market power wealth	5
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	5
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	5
An equity-focused research agenda for workplace surveillance	5
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	4
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	4
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
Putting intangible inputs and global value chains into work: New sources of manufacturing comparative advantage in global markets	4
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution	4
Expansion modes of foreign subsidiaries by multinational corporations	4
Does FDI facilitate digital transformation in developing countries? Evidence from Vietnamese firms	4
Transactive memory systems and team performance: the mediating role of routines	4
Analyzing firm growth with parametric quantile regression	4
Simple and complex identities in high dimensional organizational worlds: dimensional reduction and the emergence of organizational agglomeration	4
Assessing the impact of public innovation support on SMEs productivity: the critical role of regional disparities	4
From bounded rationality to ecological rationality	4
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	4
Restructuring and layoffs in the Industry 4.0 era: the role of exposure to advanced manufacturing technologies	3
The impact of mergers on aggregate productivity: an empirical analysis using productivity decomposition	3
Open Science, Paul David, and the commons	3
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	3
Demand regimes, innovation dynamics, and industrial leadership: a comparative analysis of wind turbine manufacturers in Europe	3
Patent rewards and the recognition of women’s inventive performance and potential	3
The technological regime and barriers to entry	3
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	3
Introduction to the special issue honoring Paul David	3
Demand-oriented policy tools and industrial convergence: evidence from cross-regional government procurement in China	3
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	3
Correction to: dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	3
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	3
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	3
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	3
Controversial innovation and spatial pockets of peripheral opportunity	2
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	2
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	2
Exploration, exploitation, and mode of market entry: acquisition versus internal development by Amazon and Alphabet	2
Innovation on technological “islands”: domain contrast, boundary spanning, knowledge depth and breadth	2
Industrial policy, local firm growth paths, and capability building in low-income countries: lessons from Ethiopia’s floriculture export sector	2
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	2
R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth	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
Cognitive turns and decision-making	2
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	2
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	2
Does carbon capture & storage mitigate carbon premium? Evidence from patents	2
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
How small is big enough? Open labeled datasets and the development of deep learning	2
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	2
Entrepreneurial dynamism and entrepreneurial ecosystem in emerging economies: the role of infrastructure	2
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	2
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	2
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	2
Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments	2
What drives network evolution? Comparing R&D project and patent networks in the EU	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