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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	80
Uncovering collaborative patterns and transition dynamics in R&D projects: a longitudinal analysis of EU Framework Programmes	51
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	36
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	31
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	31
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	31
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	26
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	22
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	20
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	19
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	18
Profitability and drug discovery	16
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	16
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	15
Measuring artificial intelligence: a systematic assessment and implications for governance	15
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	14
Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices	14
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	14
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	13
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	13
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	13
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	13
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	12
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	12
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	12

If the state is incompetent, do it yourself: private alliance as an institutional architect in the catch-up process	12
Competitiveness divergence in the euro area: rediscovering Kaldorian cumulative causation	12
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	11
Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance: do breadth and depth of external knowledge search matter?	11
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	10
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	10
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	10
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	9
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	9
Do UK research and collaborations in R&I promote economic prosperity and leveling-up? An analysis of UKRI funding between 2004 and 2021	9
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	9
Behind the curve: econometric estimation and sectoral decomposition of the Japanese Beveridge curve’s evolution around the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Gender equality and firm innovation	8
A contribution to the theory of diffusion	8
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	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
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	7
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
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	7
From innovation versus equity to innovation and equity	7
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	7
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	7
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	7
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	7
Information technology use and economic growth	6
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	6
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	6
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	6
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Tensions in transforming an innovation policy paradigm: contextual variation and reflexive governance	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	6
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	6
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	6
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	6
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	6
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6