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 2020-11-01 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 platforms and ecosystems: an introduction	27
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	27
Innovation, upgrading, and governance in cross-sectoral global value chains: the case of smartphones	26
Platform mergers and antitrust	26
Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice	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
Measuring the impacts of labor in the platform economy: new work created, old work reorganized, and value creation reconfigured	19
Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: concentrated power and distributed knowledge	19
Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution: an introduction to the special section	18
Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies	16
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
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	14
The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay	13
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
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
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
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
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
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	8
Sovereign debt default and inequality	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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