OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industrial and Corporate Change is 6. 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
Leading the post-industrial revolution? Policy windows, issue linkage and decarbonization dynamics in the UK’s net-zero strategy (2010–2022)	16
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
Suppliers’ entry, upgrading, and innovation in mining GVCs: lessons from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru	15
Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices	15
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
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
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
Organizational structure and high-performance work practices	12
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
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
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
New hires, adjustment costs, and knowledge transfer—evidence from the mobility of entrepreneurs and skills on firm productivity	10
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
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
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
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
Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared	7
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
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
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