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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	69
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	42
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	30
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	25
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	24
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	23
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	23
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	20
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	18
Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector	17
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	16
Richard R. Nelson 1930–2025	16
Heterogeneous effects and spillovers of macroprudential policy in an agent-based model of the UK housing market	16
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	16
Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices	15
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	15
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	13
The mining sector: profit-seeking strategies, innovation patterns, and commodity prices	13
Profitability and drug discovery	13
Measuring artificial intelligence: a systematic assessment and implications for governance	13
Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge	13
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	13
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	12
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014	12
Too much can be as bad as too little: product update strategy for online digital platform complementors	11

Organizational team formation: projects, structures, and transactive memory	11
Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance: do breadth and depth of external knowledge search matter?	11
Multiple banking relationships: the role of firm connectedness	11
Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers	11
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	10
Internal versus external knowledge sourcing of organizational rules: an exploratory study of CPGs in a healthcare organization	10
Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization, and persistent growth	10
Communication costs in science: evidence from the National Science Foundation Network	9
A contribution to the theory of diffusion	9
Power in sovereign debt markets: debtors’ coordination for more competitive outcomes	9
The productivity effects of labor market deregulation: evidence from German firms during 2010–2019	9
The temporal value of local scientific expertise	9
Gender equality and firm innovation	9
Peer Effects in Productivity and Differential Growth: A Global Value-Chain Perspective	9
Urban manufacturing and the role of industrial relatedness in sustaining it: the case of the Brussels Capital Region	9
Smile curve of technological learning: a case study of nuclear power reactor technology in China	9
Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies	9
Behind the curve: econometric estimation and sectoral decomposition of the Japanese Beveridge curve’s evolution around the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service innovations	8
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	8
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective	8
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	8
Revisiting international knowledge spillovers: the role of GVCs	8
Robots and reshoring: a comparative study of automation, trade, and employment in Europe	8
From innovation versus equity to innovation and equity	8
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	7
Information technology use and economic growth	7
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	7
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	7
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	6
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	6
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	6
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	6
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	6
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities in an “industry vacuum”? Platforms as external enablers	6
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	6
Hierarchical consumption preferences, redistribution, and structural transformation	6
Beyond trading: knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains	6
Strategies of search and patenting under different IPR regimes	6
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6
Military spending and innovation: learning from 19th-century world fair exhibition data	5
Corporate taxation and market power wealth	5
Multidimensional innovation responses and foreign competition	5
Non-practicing entities in Europe: an empirical analysis of patent acquisitions at the European Patent Office	5
Heavy is the crown: CEOs’ social interactions and layoff decisions	5
Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change	5
The influence of financial constraints on participation in and the impact of public policies for private R&D	4
Employee spinouts along the value chain	4

Controllability of inflation: myths and facts	4
Industry concentration in Europe and North America	4
Industrial R&D and national innovation policy: an institutional reappraisal of the US national innovation system	4
The effect of labor market institutions and macroeconomic variables on aggregate unemployment in 1990–2019: Evidence from 22 European countries	4
Organizational routines: between change and stability—Introduction to the special section	4
Correction to: Schumpeter’s insights for monetary macroeconomics and the theory of financial crises	4
A firm’s creation of proprietary knowledge linked to the knowledge spilled over from its research publications: the case of artificial intelligence	4
From organizational capabilities to corporate performances: at the roots of productivity slowdown	4
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution	4
Being small at the right moment: Path dependence after a shift in the technological regime	4
An equity-focused research agenda for workplace surveillance	4
Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis	4
Structural change, productive development, and capital flows: does financial “bonanza” cause premature deindustrialization?	4
Assessing the Economic Impact of Lockdowns in Italy: A Computational Input–Output Approach	4
Short-term economic dynamism as a policy tool to address supply shortages during crises	4
Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime	4
Machine learning for zombie hunting: predicting distress from firms’ accounts and missing values	4
Expansion modes of foreign subsidiaries by multinational corporations	4
Participation in global value chains and M&A flows	4
Patent rewards and the recognition of women’s inventive performance and potential	3
Restructuring and layoffs in the Industry 4.0 era: the role of exposure to advanced manufacturing technologies	3
Correction to: dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	3
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	3
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	3
On the strategic use of product modularity for market entry	3
The technological regime and barriers to entry	3
Open Science, Paul David, and the commons	3
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	3
Introduction to the special issue honoring Paul David	3
Putting intangible inputs and global value chains into work: New sources of manufacturing comparative advantage in global markets	3
The impact of mergers on aggregate productivity: an empirical analysis using productivity decomposition	3
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	3
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	3
The electric vehicle sector in Brazil, India, and South Africa: Are there green windows of opportunity?	2
R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth	2
Pre-entry knowledge base complexity and post-entry growth: evidence from Italian firms	2
Digital disruption and market structure: the case of internet banking	2
Is aging in the regional labor market wiping out localized external economies? Evidence from European manufacturing firms	2
Institutions, Holdup, and Automation	2
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	2
Exploration, exploitation, and mode of market entry: acquisition versus internal development by Amazon and Alphabet	2
Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments	2
Agent-Based Covid economics (ABC): Assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions and macro-stabilization policies	2
How small is big enough? Open labeled datasets and the development of deep learning	2
Industrial policy, local firm growth paths, and capability building in low-income countries: lessons from Ethiopia’s floriculture export sector	2
Disruptive evolution: harnessing functional excess, experimentation, and science as tool	2
Subsidies for innovative start-ups and firm entry	2
Outside In: challenges for evolutionary studies on entry	2
Innovation on technological “islands”: domain contrast, boundary spanning, knowledge depth and breadth	2
Empirical issues concerning studies of firm entry	2
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	2
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	2
The resilience of the British and European goods industry: Challenge of Brexit	2
Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Controversial innovation and spatial pockets of peripheral opportunity	2
Dual clusters in dual economies: understanding innovation in clusters of developing countries	2
Innovation and the labor market: theory, evidence, and challenges	2
Flexible exchange rates in emerging markets: shock absorbers or drivers of endogenous cycles?	2
Is modularity robust to misfits? A formal test	2
Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	2
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	2