OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Competition & Change is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary	58
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	42
Digital labour and welfare regimes: The impact of the institutional context on the prevalence of platform work	42
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	34
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	26
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	22
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	19
From scale to stagnation: The impact of industrial conglomerates on Nigeria’s industrial ecosystem	19
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	18
Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery	15
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	15
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	14
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	14
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	14
The financialisation debate: From transdisciplinary research program to disciplinary recognition and fragmentation	14
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	14
Introduction: The politics of growth, stagnation, and upgrading in peripheral advanced economies	13
The resurgence of the state in East Central Europe: Institutions and public expenditure composition	13
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance	13
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	13
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	12
Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	12
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	12
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	11
Who calls the shots? Development banks and the politics of de-risking in European external finance	11

International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	11
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	11
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	10
The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches	10
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	10
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	9
Is inclusive growth still possible with post-industrial transformation? Emerging evidence from East Asia in a historical institutionalist perspective	9
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	9
Input supplier power in global agri-food value chains	9
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	9
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	9
The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	9
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	9
Dividend payouts and firm-level R&D investment: International evidence	9
Capital ecosystem of European AI: Patriotic billionaires, development banks, and the evolution of state-finance nexus	8
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	8
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	8
Quantitative Easing in Japan: A critical evaluation	8
Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain	8
Monopolizing data, extracting value: Industry 4.0 technologies and intellectual monopoly in healthcare	8
Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously	8
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	7
Breeding ‘unicorns’: Tracing the rise of the European investor state in the European venture capital market	7
The environmental state: Analysing the ‘creation’ of renewable energy markets in the United Kingdom	7
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	7
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	7
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	7
The limits to upgrading and value capture in R&D global value chains: Indian and Chinese contract R&D firms in the integrated circuit design and pharmaceutical global value chains	7
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	6
Contractual restriction, business model, and institutional support: The multilevel configuration of platform-mediated care work and care precarity in Hong Kong	6
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	6
CORRIGENDUM TO “The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities”	6
Shareholders as the main beneficiaries of globalized production: Corporate financialization and value capture along global value chains	6
The green banking gap: How bankability, business models, and regulations challenge banks’ decarbonisation	6
Risks in the financialization of Chinese cities	6
In practice and in principle: ‘Free market’ discourses and container port reform in Australia	6
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	6
From risk to voice: Pensioner representation in Austrian and Dutch occupational pensions	6
Leftist governments, distributive strategies, and the politics of balance of payments-constrained growth in Chile and Uruguay	6
Too big to ignore: The Federal Advisory Council, monetary policy, and the interest rate preferences of banks	6
Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry	6
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	6
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	5
Financialization and corporate restructuring: A quantitative assessment	5
Disciplining venture capital? The remaking of innovation financing in the EU	5
The Japanification of China? A tale of two East Asian developmental states from the growth model perspective	5
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	5
An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context	4
Introduction: The role of the state in shaping the internationalization of firms in the twenty-first century	4
Monetary subordination in the Eurozone: Pillars and asymmetries	4

‘Nobody works on the platforms for health care or pension’: How do platform workers deal with the lack of social protection in a context of structural informality?	4
Datanalysing the uninsured: The coloniality of inclusive insurance platforms	4
Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acquisitions and the digital transformation of German industry	4
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	4
The anatomy of Chinese capitalism: Sectoral variation in party-state permeation and corporate governance	4
Welfare state and platform workers’ protection: The role of government ideology in France and Italy	4
Financial innovation in China’s Greater Bay Area: Financial connectivity, institutional bridging and China’s financial statecraft	4
Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries	3
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	3
The second financial services revolution? The quiet politics of open banking reform in the UK	3
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	3
The Baltic growth model: Balanced growth under the EMU playbook	3
State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies	3
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	3
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	3
Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization	3
Reclaiming power: Tokenization platforms and incumbency in global finance	3
Global value chains and wages under different wage setting mechanisms	3
From depoliticization to repoliticisation: Rethinking Singapore’s developmental state in a post-industrial era	3
Bank credit, financial flows, and distribution of income in the Eurozone	3
Banks and the noisy geopolitics of big tech regulation in Europe	3
Green finance and the informal economy: Formality bias and the boundaries of financeability in the Global South	3
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	3
Green financial power in geoeconomic times: Development banks between Wall Street and Paris	3