OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industrial and Corporate Change is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The architecture of global knowledge production – do low-income countries get more involved?	71
Effects of automation on the gender pay gap: the case of Estonia	52
Correction to: The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks	46
How Does Financial Development Affect the Growth–Inequality Nexus? Evidence from a PCHVAR Analysis	45
The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power	42
Trade-offs and complementarities between regional, sectoral, and national support policies for firms’ innovation	39
Economic benefits of new broadband network coverage and service adoption: evidence from OECD member states	37
Fiscal transfers and common debt in a Monetary Union: a multi-country agent–based stock flow consistent model	34
Research, innovation, and bankruptcy: evidence from European manufacturing firms	30
Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion	23
Off the mark? What we (should) know about the bright and dark sides of corporate trademark practices	22
Social progress and corporate culture	20
The economic system question revisited	19
Correction to: Employment and innovation in recessions: firm-level evidence from European Countries	19
Entrants heterogeneity, pre-entry knowledge, and the target industry context: a taxonomy and a framework	18
Basic and applied research collaboration trends in the pharmaceutical industry	18
When structural reforms of labor markets harm productivity. Evidence from the German IAB panel	17
A conceptual framework for latecomer linkage capabilities	15
Patent protection and foreign R&D investment location choices: inventor mobility and policy convergence	15
Export performance, innovation, and sectoral efficiency: a multilevel model for Argentinian manufacturing firms	14
The paradoxical effect of prior operating experience and observational learning on new market entry	14
Business groups, institutions, and firm performance	14
Market power and R&D investment: the case of China	14
Effects of the award of public service contracts on the performance and payroll of winning firms	13
The microstructure of modularity in design: a design motif view	13

The paradox of China’s tobacco industry: competition through monopoly policy	12
The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks	12
Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data	12
Technology, job characteristics, and retirement of aged workers: evidence from automation and IT adoption of firms in Korea	12
Regional static diversification and relatedness between industries	12
Internationalization, value-chain configuration, and the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies	11
The technological regime and barriers to entry	10
Competitiveness anddynamiccumulative causation in an export-led growing economy	9
In search of markets and technology: the role of cross-border knowledge for domestic productivity	9
Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country	9
Functional diversification and exaptation: the emergence of new drug uses in the pharma industry	9
Joining and exiting the value chain of foreign multinationals and performance of their local suppliers: evidence from interfirm transaction data	9
Intangible assets, global value chains, and innovation: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs	9
Economic fluctuations and pseudo-wealth	9
Entrepreneurs “from within”? Schumpeter and the emergence of pure novelty	8
The power of modularity today: 20 years of “Design Rules”	8
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	8
Overcoming the innovation threshold through innovative public procurement: evidence from CERN	8
Competition between AI foundation models: dynamics and policy recommendations	8
Correction to: The temporal value of local scientific expertise	8
Submarket emergence, customer base expansion and strategic entry timing in the evolution of the German farm tractor industry	8
Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction	8
Exploring complementarities in innovation among research, development, and university technology transfers	8
Coopetition revisited: ambivalent impacts on drama program selection	8
How automation and skill gaps fail to explain wage suppression or wage inequality	7
Archetypes of product launch by insiders, outsiders, and visionaries	7
Employment and innovation in recessions: firm-level evidence from European Countries	7
Shareholders’ greed and corporate value growth	7
How stable routines can empower varied behaviors: defining routines as organizational capacities	7
Routine-biased technological change and employee outcomes after mass layoffs: evidence from Brazil	7
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition	6
The causes of and responses to today’s inflation	6
Green innovation strategies and firms’ internationalization	6
Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy	6
Modular organization and informal structure: Modularity, performance, and the alignment of organizational networks	6
Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective	6
The organizational and technological origins of the U.S. shale gas revolution, 1947 to 2012	6
Patenting in 4IR technologies and firm performance	6
Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions	6
Sovereign debt default and inequality	6
The effects of domestic and EU incentives on corporate investment toward ecological transition: a propensity score matching approach	6
Initiation of knowledge and technology transfer from academia to industry: opportunity recognition and transfer channel choice	5
Economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective	5
The long-term economic effects of pandemics: toward an evolutionary approach	5
Initial conditions and regional performance in the aftermath of disruptive shocks: the case of East Germany after socialism	5
Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs	5
Horizontal acquisitions of growth potential	5
Do not put eggs in one basket: related variety and export resilience in the post-crisis era	5
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	5
Downstream foreign MNEs and local suppliers’ innovation in a dynamic environment: the moderating effect of network diversity	5

Learn to be green: FDI spillover effects on eco-innovation in China	5
Is the “sailing-ship effect” misnamed? A statistical inquiry of the case sail vs steam in maritime transportation	5
The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest	5
Personality characteristics and the decision to hire	5
Learning to search collaboratively: how dyads overcome complexity and misaligned incentives in imperfect modular decompositions	5
How heuristic pricing shapes the aggregate market: the “Cheap Twin Paradox”	5