OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industrial and Corporate Change is 5. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The enabling technologies of industry 4.0: examining the seeds of the fourth industrial revolution	93
Green windows of opportunity: latecomer development in the age of transformation toward sustainability	55
Can self-regulation save digital platforms?	52
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	43
An evolutionary perspective on economic catch-up by latecomers	37
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	35
China’s leadership in the hydropower sector: identifying green windows of opportunity for technological catch-up	28
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	28
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	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
Catching up through green windows of opportunity in an era of technological transformation: Empirical evidence from the Chinese wind energy sector	25
Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction	23
The knowledge spillover of innovation	22
Platform mergers and antitrust	20
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	18
Economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective	18
Measuring the impacts of labor in the platform economy: new work created, old work reorganized, and value creation reconfigured	18
Catch-up dynamics in early industry lifecycle stages—a typology and comparative case studies in four clean-tech industries	17
Demand-led catch-up: a history-friendly model of latecomer development in the global green economy	17
Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies	17
Unscrambling the eggs: breaking up consummated mergers and dominant firms	16
Innovation, governance, and capabilities: implications for competition policy	16
A perspective on the evolution of evolutionary economics	16

Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution: an introduction to the special section	16
From catching up to industrial leadership: towards an integrated market-technology perspective. An application of semantic patent-to-patent similarity in the wind and EV sector	16
Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model	15
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	15
The rise in inequality after pandemics: can fiscal support play a mitigating role?	14
Taking uncertainty seriously: simplicity versus complexity in financial regulation	13
Competition law and digital ecosystems: Learning to walk before we run	12
The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay	12
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	12
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	12
Patterns of integration in global value chains and the changing structure of employment in Europe	11
Digital platforms and the transactions cost approach to competition law	11
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	11
Exploring new opportunities through collaboration within and beyond sectoral systems of innovation in thefourthindustrial revolution	10
Personality characteristics and the decision to hire	10
Do not put eggs in one basket: related variety and export resilience in the post-crisis era	10
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	9
Catch-up and the entry strategies of latecomers: Chinese firms in the mobile phone sector	9
Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context	9
Information and communication technologies and firms’ export performance	9
R&D collaborations along the industry life cycle: the case of German photovoltaics manufacturer	8
Sectoral patterns of collaborative tie formation: investigating geographic, cognitive, and technological dimensions	8
Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy	8
Misallocation of scientific credit: the role of hierarchy and preferences. An extension of Lissoni et al. (2013)	8
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	8
Social capital, resilience, and regional diversification in Italy	8
Deepening or delinking? Innovative capacity and global value chain participation in the IT industry	8
Catch up of complex products and systems: lessons from China’s high-speed rail sectoral system	8
Public procurement for innovation: firm-level evidence from Italy and Norway	8
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	7
Reallocation and productivity during the Great Recession: evidence from French manufacturing firms	7
Business group persistence and institutional maturity: the role of management practices	7
Networks of export markets and export market diversification	7
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	7
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	7
Sovereign debt default and inequality	7
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	6
Impact of sourcing from the informal economy on the export likelihood and performance of emerging economy firms	6
Social progress and corporate culture	6
The EU vs US corporate R&D intensity gap: investigating key sectors and firms	6
Climate change and growth	6
Knowledge intermediation strategies: a dynamic capability perspective	6
Internationalization, value-chain configuration, and the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies	6
Design rules: past and future	6
The “sailing-ship effect” as a technological principle	6
Research, innovation, and bankruptcy: evidence from European manufacturing firms	6
Learning in foreign and domestic value chains: the role of opportunities and capabilities	6
How context and attention shape behaviors in online communities: a modified garbage can model	5
Mirroring in production? Early evidence from the scale-up of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)	5
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	5

The power of modularity today: 20 years of “Design Rules”	5
Sources of inflation and the effects of balanced budgets and inflation targeting in developing economies	5
External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	5
On “reasoned history”	5
Successful transition to a market economy: an interpretation from organizational ecology theory and institutional theory	5
The role of institutions in the early entrepreneurial process	5
On the basis of brain: neural-network-inspired changes in general-purpose chips	5
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	5
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	5