OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Competition & Change is 1. 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
Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa	125
Digitalization and the geographies of production: Towards reshoring or global fragmentation?	43
Amazon: A story of accumulation through intellectual rentiership and predation	42
Industrial policy and comparative political economy: A literature review and research agenda	35
Paradigms and the political economy of ecopolitical projects: Green growth and degrowth compared	34
Same same, but different: Varieties of capital markets, Chinese state capitalism and the global financial order	33
Oligopoly-driven development: The World Bank’s Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains in perspective	22
Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers?	20
Three varieties of Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Rule by the experts, the people, the leader	18
Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?	18
Financialization at work: Shareholder primacy and stagnant wages in the United States	17
The substitutive state? Neoliberal state interventionism across industrial, housing and private pensions policy in the UK	17
Financialization and state capitalism in Hungary after the Global Financial Crisis	17
Intellectual property, technorents and the labour share of production	16
Inequality, poverty and the privatization of essential services: A ‘systems of provision’ study of water, energy and local buses in the UK	16
From passive owners to planet savers? Asset managers, carbon majors and the limits of sustainable finance	13
Digital connectivity at the upstream end of value chains: A dynamic perspective on smartphone adoption amongst horticultural smallholders in Kenya	13
Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech	13
‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town	13
Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca	12
Competition and power in global value chains	12
Competition and monopoly in the U.S. economy: What do the industrial concentration data show?	11
The epistemic evolution of market authority: Big data, blockchain and China’s neostatist challenge to neoliberalism	11
Coping with commoditization: The third-party logistics industry in the Asia-Pacific	9
The advanced producer services complex as an obligatory passage point: Evidence from rent extraction by investment banks	9

Decarbonizing the downturn: Addressing climate change in an age of stagnation	8
Infrastructures of globalisation. Shifts in global order and Europe’s strategic choices	8
When the state goes transnational: The political economy of China’s engagement with Indonesia	8
The Gulf’s shifting geoeconomy and China’s structural power: From the petrodollar to the petroyuan?	8
The moral economy of the algorithmic crowd: Possessive collectivisim and techno-economic rentiership	7
Introduction	7
Financialization and union decline in Canada: The influence on sectors and core industries	6
Financial natives: Real estate developers at work	6
The effects of culture, attitudes and perceptions on industrial cluster policy: The case of Russia	5
How and why do MNCs communicate their corporate social responsibility in developing countries? Evidence from Bangladesh	5
Ceci n’est pas un Capital Markets Union: Re-establishing EU-led financialization	5
Elephant limps, but jaguar stumbles: Unpacking the divergence of state capitalism in Brazil and India through theories of capitalist diversity	5
No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality	5
Industry evolution: Evidence from the Italian brewing industry	5
Owner–manager perceptions of regulation and micro-firm performance: An exploratory view	5
Markets are constantly collapsing: Reconceptualizing ‘the market’ as a quantum social wavefunction	5
Convergent and divergent trajectories of corporate governance	5
‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain	4
The state of the study of the market in political economy: China’s rise shines light on conceptual shortcomings	4
Disentangling the transformation of the German model: The role of firms’ strategic decisions and structural change	4
Industrial restructuring, spatio-temporal fixes and the financialization of the North European forest industry	4
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	4
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	4
The emergence of a New European Labour Policy regime: Continuity and change since the euro crisis	4
‘Banks 1 – Portugal 0’? Financial player entanglements in the Eurozone crisis	4
From the post-industrial prophecy to the de-industrial nightmare: Stagnation, the manufacturing fetish and the limits of capitalist wealth	4
The elimination of political demands: Ordoliberalism, the big society and the depoliticization of co-operatives	4
Institutional and economic transition in Vietnam: Analysing the heterogeneity in firms’ perceptions of business environment constraints	4
New wine in old bottles? Korean state actors’ policy engagement with the online gaming industry	3
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	3
Secular stagnation and core-periphery uneven development in post-crisis eurozone	3
Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective	3
The problematic nature of UK pension fund regulation: Performing governance at the expense of innovation	3
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	3
Salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance systems encouraging corporate social responsibility in an emerging market	3
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	3
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	2
Economic structure, power and institutions: A conceptual framework for analysing the historical transformation of US industrial strategy	2
Capitalists against financialization: The battle over German pension funds	2
The German variety of grocery retailing: A historical institutionalist analysis of a non-core industry	2
Financial liberalization and the Indian non-financial, corporate sector	2
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	2
Digital markets, competition regimes and models of capitalism: A comparative institutional analysis of European and US responses to Google	2
East Asia’s retail revolution: Diffusion of organized retailing and varieties of market development in Korea and Taiwan	2
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	2
Understanding industry emergence through entrepreneurship from a social movement perspective	2
Coping with digital market re-organization: How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power	2
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	2
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	1
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	1

EU fiscal governance and the managerial reformatting of neoliberal constitutionalism	1
Stephanie Barrientos, Gender and Work in Global Value Chains – Capturing the Gains?	1
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	1
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	1
Intellectual property strategy and the governance of technological platform-driven global value chains: The case of Qualcomm	1
Analysing Indonesia’s infrastructure deficits from a developmentalist perspective	1
Gaining lead firm position in an emerging industry: A global production networks analysis of two Scandinavian energy firms in offshore wind power	1
Why do state-owned utilities become subject to financial logics? The case of energy distribution in Flanders	1
From “combined-but-not-unified” to “integrated isolation” - Greek banking in Europe 2010–2015	1
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	1
From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Theorizing globalized production and digitalization: Towards a re-centering of value	1
Contorting transformations: Uneven impacts of the U.S.–Mexico automotive industrial complex	1
Patents over patients? Exploring the variegated financialization of the pharmaceuticals industry through mergers and acquisitions	1
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	1
Commonality without convergence: An analytical framework Accounting for variegated financialisation in emerging economies	1
The rise of anti-establishment and far-right forces in Italy: Neoliberalisation in a new guise?	1
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	1
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	1
Avoiding the China shock: How Chinese state-backed internationalization drives changes in European economic governance	1
The entangled state: How state-business relations shaped the German corporate tax regime	1
Building an island of state capacity: How the UK state implemented the Thames Tideway Tunnel with market-based finance	1
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	1
Digital technologies shaping the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work	1