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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	62
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	58
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	49
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	46
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	43
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	28
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	26
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	25
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	21
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	20
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	18
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	17
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	17
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	16
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	16
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	15
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	15
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	15
Profitability and drug discovery	15
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	14
Announcement: the 2021 Richard R. Nelson Prize awarded by the editors of Industrial and Corporate Change and Research Policy	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	13
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	13
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	12
External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	12

Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	12
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	11
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	11
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	11
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	11
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	11
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	11
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	10
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	10
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	9
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	9
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	9
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service innovations	9
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	9
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	9
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	9
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	8
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	8
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	8
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	8
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	7
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	7
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	7
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	7
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	7
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	7
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	7
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6
Platform mergers and antitrust	6
Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	6
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	6
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	6
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	6
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	6