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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	77
Desmond McNeill, Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century	32
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	30
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	26
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	25
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	23
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	22
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	19
Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker (eds), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK	17
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	13
Assembling sustainability reporting in Singapore	13
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	12
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	11
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	11
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	10
Craig Berry, Pensions Imperilled	9
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	8
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	8
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	8
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	8
Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	8
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	7
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	7
Who calls the shots? Development banks and the politics of de-risking in European external finance	7
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	7

Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	7
Contorting transformations: Uneven impacts of the U.S.–Mexico automotive industrial complex	6
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	6
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	6
Ben Selwyn, The Struggle for Development	6
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	6
Introduction	6
The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	6
Financial liberalization and the Indian non-financial, corporate sector	6
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	6
Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously	5
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	5
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	5
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	5
The emergence of a New European Labour Policy regime: Continuity and change since the euro crisis	5
Analysing Indonesia’s infrastructure deficits from a developmentalist perspective	4
Leftist governments, distributive strategies, and the politics of balance of payments-constrained growth in Chile and Uruguay	4
From the post-industrial prophecy to the de-industrial nightmare: Stagnation, the manufacturing fetish and the limits of capitalist wealth	4
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	4
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	4
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	4
Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain	4
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	4
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	4
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	4
Too big to ignore: The Federal Advisory Council, monetary policy, and the interest rate preferences of banks	3
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	3
Risks in the financialization of Chinese cities	3
In practice and in principle: ‘Free market’ discourses and container port reform in Australia	3
Financialization and corporate restructuring: A quantitative assessment	3
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	3
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	3
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	3
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	3
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	3
The Japanification of China? A tale of two East Asian developmental states from the growth model perspective	3
Datanalysing the uninsured: The coloniality of inclusive insurance platforms	3
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	3
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	3
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	3
Breeding ‘unicorns’: Tracing the rise of the European investor state in the European venture capital market	3
Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary	3
The role of the state in shaping the internationalization of firms in the twenty-first century	3
An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context	3
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	3
Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries	2
Public spending and austerity: The two faces of the French Investor State	2
The second financial services revolution? The quiet politics of open banking reform in the UK	2
Financially engineering a “self-generative” political economy of creditworthiness: Expertocratic exemption problems for sustainable debt and democracy	2
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	2

Banks and the noisy geopolitics of big tech regulation in Europe	2
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	2
Coping with digital market re-organization: How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power	2
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	2
Global value chains and wages under different wage setting mechanisms	2
State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies	2
Digital markets, competition regimes and models of capitalism: A comparative institutional analysis of European and US responses to Google	2
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	2
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	2
The Baltic growth model: Balanced growth under the EMU playbook	2
From depoliticisation to repoliticisation: Rethinking Singapore’s developmental state in a post-industrial era	2
Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca	1
China’s role in Kazakhstan’s automotive sector: The complexity and complementarity of multi-vector state-to-state engagement and product diversification	1
‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain	1
Decarbonizing the downturn: Addressing climate change in an age of stagnation	1
Regulation from the inside? Internal supervision in Dutch pension funds	1
Boom and bust, Chinese style: Multi-task regulatory dilemma and China’s stock market crisis in 2015	1
Zoning trans-regional projects in the belt and road initiative: How does Chinese local government re-assemble policy and capital in the China–Myanmar economic zones	1
Why do state-owned utilities become subject to financial logics? The case of energy distribution in Flanders	1
The active underbelly of developmentalism: The power of the state in the twenty-first century	1
Commonality without convergence: An analytical framework Accounting for variegated financialisation in emerging economies	1
Tokenization and the banking system: Redefining authority in the blockchain era	1
The rise of anti-establishment and far-right forces in Italy: Neoliberalisation in a new guise?	1
Book review: Garments without guilt? Global labour justice and ethical codes in Sri Lankan apparels	1