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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The enabling technologies of industry 4.0: examining the seeds of the fourth industrial revolution	76
Green windows of opportunity: latecomer development in the age of transformation toward sustainability	50
Can self-regulation save digital platforms?	49
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	41
An evolutionary perspective on economic catch-up by latecomers	36
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	33
China’s leadership in the hydropower sector: identifying green windows of opportunity for technological catch-up	26
Innovation, upgrading, and governance in cross-sectoral global value chains: the case of smartphones	26
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	26
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	24
Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice	23
The knowledge spillover of innovation	20
Catching up through green windows of opportunity in an era of technological transformation: Empirical evidence from the Chinese wind energy sector	20
Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction	19
How data shape actor relations in artificial intelligence innovation systems: an empirical observation from China	19
Green technologies and firms’ market value: a micro-econometric analysis of European firms	19
How many firms benefit from a window of opportunity? Knowledge spillovers, industry characteristics, and catching up in the Chinese biomass power plant industry	18
Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: concentrated power and distributed knowledge	16
Catch-up dynamics in early industry lifecycle stages—a typology and comparative case studies in four clean-tech industries	16
Innovation, governance, and capabilities: implications for competition policy	16
Demand-led catch-up: a history-friendly model of latecomer development in the global green economy	16
Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution: an introduction to the special section	16
Unscrambling the eggs: breaking up consummated mergers and dominant firms	15
A close look at the contingencies of founders’ effect on venture performance	14
Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model	14

Beyond catch-up: could China become the global innovation powerhouse? China’s innovation progress and challenges from a holistic innovation perspective	14
Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies	14
Economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective	14
Measuring the impacts of labor in the platform economy: new work created, old work reorganized, and value creation reconfigured	14
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	14
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	13
Taking uncertainty seriously: simplicity versus complexity in financial regulation	13
The rise in inequality after pandemics: can fiscal support play a mitigating role?	13
Platform mergers and antitrust	12
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	12
A perspective on the evolution of evolutionary economics	12
Competition law and digital ecosystems: Learning to walk before we run	11
The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay	11
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	11
Digital platforms and the transactions cost approach to competition law	11
Patterns of integration in global value chains and the changing structure of employment in Europe	9
Information and communication technologies and firms’ export performance	9
Exploring new opportunities through collaboration within and beyond sectoral systems of innovation in thefourthindustrial revolution	9
Catch-up and the entry strategies of latecomers: Chinese firms in the mobile phone sector	9
Personality characteristics and the decision to hire	9
Taste for science, academic boundary spanning, and inventive performance of scientists and engineers in industry	9
Innovation–diffusion, the economy and contemporary challenges: a comment	8
Deepening or delinking? Innovative capacity and global value chain participation in the IT industry	8
Misallocation of scientific credit: the role of hierarchy and preferences. An extension of Lissoni et al. (2013)	8
Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context	8
Catch up of complex products and systems: lessons from China’s high-speed rail sectoral system	8
Entrepreneurship and the firm: a conversation on foundations and prospects	7
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	7
Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy	7
Business group persistence and institutional maturity: the role of management practices	7
Sectoral patterns of collaborative tie formation: investigating geographic, cognitive, and technological dimensions	7
Public procurement for innovation: firm-level evidence from Italy and Norway	7
R&D collaborations along the industry life cycle: the case of German photovoltaics manufacturer	7
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	7
Social capital, resilience, and regional diversification in Italy	7
The “sailing-ship effect” as a technological principle	6
Pulled or pushed? The spatial diffusion of wind energy between local demand and supply	6
Learning in foreign and domestic value chains: the role of opportunities and capabilities	6
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	6
Knowledge intermediation strategies: a dynamic capability perspective	6
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	6
Digital technologies, employment, and skills	6
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	6
Research, innovation, and bankruptcy: evidence from European manufacturing firms	6
Academic spill-ins or spill-outs? Examining knowledge spillovers of university patents	6
External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	5
Do not put eggs in one basket: related variety and export resilience in the post-crisis era	5
The power of modularity today: 20 years of “Design Rules”	5
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	5
Networks of export markets and export market diversification	5

On “reasoned history”	5
When soft budget constraints promote innovation: Kornai meets Schumpeter in Japan	5
The role of institutions in the early entrepreneurial process	5
Impact of sourcing from the informal economy on the export likelihood and performance of emerging economy firms	5
Reallocation and productivity during the Great Recession: evidence from French manufacturing firms	5