OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industrial and Corporate 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	79
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	58
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	54
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	46
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	41
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	41
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	40
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	26
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	26
Profitability and drug discovery	24
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	23
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	23
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	19
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	18
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	16
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	16
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	16
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	16
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	16
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	15
Announcement: the 2021 Richard R. Nelson Prize awarded by the editors of Industrial and Corporate Change and Research Policy	15
Corrigendum to: Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model	15
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	14
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	14
Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	14

External financing of innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs): unpacking bank credit with respect to innovation typologies and combinations	13
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	12
Corporate governance and R&D investment: the role of debt financing	12
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	11
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	11
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	11
Corrigendum to: Regulating platforms and ecosystems: An introduction	11
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	11
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	11
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	10
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	10
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	10
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	10
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	9
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	9
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	9
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	9
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service innovations	9
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	9
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	9
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	8
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	8
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	8
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	8
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	8
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	8
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	8
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	8
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	8
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	8
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	8
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	8
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	7
Platform mergers and antitrust	7
Sovereign debt default and inequality	7
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	7
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	7
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	7
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	6
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	6
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	6
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	6
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	6
Employee spinouts along the value chain	6
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	6
Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	6
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	6
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	6
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	6

Digital technologies, employment, and skills	6
Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	5
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution	5
Expansion modes of foreign subsidiaries by multinational corporations	5
The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	5
Are start-ups funded by public venture capital different? New cross-country evidence from micro-data	5
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	5
Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition	5
Machine learning for zombie hunting: predicting distress from firms’ accounts and missing values	5
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	5
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	5
Being small at the right moment: Path dependence after a shift in the technological regime	5
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	5
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	4
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	4
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	4
Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice	4
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	4
Correction to: dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	4
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	4
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	4
The technological regime and barriers to entry	4
Can self-regulation save digital platforms?	4
From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: at the roots of productivity slowdown	4
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	3
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	3
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	3
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	3
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	3
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	3
Exploration, exploitation, and mode of market entry: acquisition versus internal development by Amazon and Alphabet	3
Innovation on technological “islands”: domain contrast, boundary spanning, knowledge depth and breadth	3
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	3
Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy	3
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	3
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	3
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	3
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	3
Is modularity robust to misfits? A formal test	3
Industrial policy, local firm growth paths, and capability building in low-income countries: lessons from Ethiopia’s floriculture export sector	2
Digital technologies, learning capacity of the organization and innovation: EU-wide empirical evidence from a combined dataset	2
In search of markets and technology: the role of cross-border knowledge for domestic productivity	2
Horizontal acquisitions of growth potential	2
Kindleberger in retrospect: the Federal Reserve’s dollar swap lines and international lender of last resort rules	2
Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	2
Introduction to the Special Section “Economic Catch-up by Latecomers”	2
Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	2
Regional static diversification and relatedness between industries	2
Nonlinearities and expenditure multipliers in the Eurozone	2
What drives network evolution? Comparing R&D project and patent networks in the EU	2
Correction to: Employment and innovation in recessions: firm-level evidence from European Countries	2
Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms	2
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	2
Is aging in the regional labor market wiping out localized external economies? Evidence from European manufacturing firms	2
Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection	2
Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation	2
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	2
Firm innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and country context	2
Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Within-firm inequality in workdays and labor productivity: evidence from linked employer–employee Italian data	2
Personality characteristics and the decision to hire	2
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
Digital disruption and market structure: the case of internet banking	2
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	2
Subsidies for innovative start-ups and firm entry	2
R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth	2