OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industrial and Corporate Change is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	62
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	35
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	26
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	22
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	20
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	20
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	19
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	18
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	17
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	16
Profitability and drug discovery	16
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	16
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	15
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	14
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	13
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	13
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	12
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	12
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	12
Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices	12
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	12
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	11
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	11
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	11
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	11

Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	10
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	10
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	9
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	9
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	9
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	9
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	9
Behind the curve: econometric estimation and sectoral decomposition of the Japanese Beveridge curve’s evolution around the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	9
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	9
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	8
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service innovations	8
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	8
Gender equality and firm innovation	8
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	8
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	8
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	7
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	7
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	7
A contribution to the theory of diffusion	7
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	7
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	7
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	6
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	6
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	6
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	6
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	6
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	6
Information technology use and economic growth	6
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	6
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	6
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	6
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	6