OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Competition & Change is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Industrial policy and comparative political economy: A literature review and research agenda	60
Paradigms and the political economy of ecopolitical projects: Green growth and degrowth compared	46
Same same, but different: Varieties of capital markets, Chinese state capitalism and the global financial order	42
Oligopoly-driven development: The World Bank’s Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains in perspective	26
The substitutive state? Neoliberal state interventionism across industrial, housing and private pensions policy in the UK	25
Three varieties of Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Rule by the experts, the people, the leader	24
From passive owners to planet savers? Asset managers, carbon majors and the limits of sustainable finance	23
Financialization and state capitalism in Hungary after the Global Financial Crisis	22
Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca	18
Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech	17
‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town	16
Infrastructures of globalisation. Shifts in global order and Europe’s strategic choices	15
Competition and power in global value chains	15
When the state goes transnational: The political economy of China’s engagement with Indonesia	14
Decarbonizing the downturn: Addressing climate change in an age of stagnation	13
No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality	13
The advanced producer services complex as an obligatory passage point: Evidence from rent extraction by investment banks	12
The Gulf’s shifting geoeconomy and China’s structural power: From the petrodollar to the petroyuan?	11
Coping with commoditization: The third-party logistics industry in the Asia-Pacific	10
Introduction	8
From the post-industrial prophecy to the de-industrial nightmare: Stagnation, the manufacturing fetish and the limits of capitalist wealth	8
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	7
Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective	7
The state of the study of the market in political economy: China’s rise shines light on conceptual shortcomings	7
The moral economy of the algorithmic crowd: Possessive collectivisim and techno-economic rentiership	7

How and why do MNCs communicate their corporate social responsibility in developing countries? Evidence from Bangladesh	7
Secular stagnation and core-periphery uneven development in post-crisis eurozone	6
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	6
The European Investor State: Its characteristics, genesis, and effects	6
Markets are constantly collapsing: Reconceptualizing ‘the market’ as a quantum social wavefunction	6
Elephant limps, but jaguar stumbles: Unpacking the divergence of state capitalism in Brazil and India through theories of capitalist diversity	6
‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain	6
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	6
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	6
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	5
Coping with digital market re-organization: How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power	5
Digital markets, competition regimes and models of capitalism: A comparative institutional analysis of European and US responses to Google	5
Disentangling the transformation of the German model: The role of firms’ strategic decisions and structural change	5
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	5
The elimination of political demands: Ordoliberalism, the big society and the depoliticization of co-operatives	5
Industry evolution: Evidence from the Italian brewing industry	5
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	4
Patents over patients? Exploring the variegated financialization of the pharmaceuticals industry through mergers and acquisitions	4
Avoiding the China shock: How Chinese state-backed internationalization drives changes in European economic governance	4
‘Banks 1 – Portugal 0’? Financial player entanglements in the Eurozone crisis	4
The rise of anti-establishment and far-right forces in Italy: Neoliberalisation in a new guise?	4
The emergence of a New European Labour Policy regime: Continuity and change since the euro crisis	4
Industrial restructuring, spatio-temporal fixes and the financialization of the North European forest industry	4
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	4
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	3
Capitalists against financialization: The battle over German pension funds	3
The problematic nature of UK pension fund regulation: Performing governance at the expense of innovation	3
Gaining lead firm position in an emerging industry: A global production networks analysis of two Scandinavian energy firms in offshore wind power	3
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	3
Analysing Indonesia’s infrastructure deficits from a developmentalist perspective	3
Why do state-owned utilities become subject to financial logics? The case of energy distribution in Flanders	3
Salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance systems encouraging corporate social responsibility in an emerging market	3
The limits of derisking. (Un)conditionality in the European green transformation	2
The multiple faces of financialization: Financial and business services in the US economy, 1997–2020	2
An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context	2
Off-balance-sheet policies to the rescue: The role of statistical expertise for European public–private partnerships	2
Understanding industry emergence through entrepreneurship from a social movement perspective	2
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	2
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	2
The entangled state: How state-business relations shaped the German corporate tax regime	2
Finance as a form of economic planning	2
Reconfiguring FDI dependency: SMEs as emerging stakeholders in an advanced peripheral export-led growth model	2
Breeding ‘unicorns’: Tracing the rise of the European investor state in the European venture capital market	2
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	2
Economic structure, power and institutions: A conceptual framework for analysing the historical transformation of US industrial strategy	2
Assembling sustainability reporting in Singapore	2
From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	2
Theorizing globalized production and digitalization: Towards a re-centering of value	2
Intellectual property strategy and the governance of technological platform-driven global value chains: The case of Qualcomm	2

Financial liberalization and the Indian non-financial, corporate sector	2
Limitations of coordinative Europeanisation in the Just Transition Mechanism in Romania	2
Public spending and austerity: The two faces of the French Investor State	2
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	2
EU fiscal governance and the managerial reformatting of neoliberal constitutionalism	2