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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	56
Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary	53
Digital labour and welfare regimes: The impact of the institutional context on the prevalence of platform work	43
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	39
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	35
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	33
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	26
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	21
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	20
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	18
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	17
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	16
Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery	16
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	15
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	14
The financialisation debate: From transdisciplinary research program to disciplinary recognition and fragmentation	13
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance	13
The resurgence of the state in East Central Europe: Institutions and public expenditure composition	13
Introduction: The politics of growth, stagnation, and upgrading in peripheral advanced economies	12
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	12
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	11
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	11
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	11
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	11
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	11

Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	11
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	10
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	10
Who calls the shots? Development banks and the politics of de-risking in European external finance	10
The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	10
Is inclusive growth still possible with post-industrial transformation? Emerging evidence from East Asia in a historical institutionalist perspective	9
The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches	9
Input supplier power in global agri-food value chains	9
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	9
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	9
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	8
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	8
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	8
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	8
Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously	8
Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain	8
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	8
Quantitative Easing in Japan: A critical evaluation	7
Capital ecosystem of European AI: Patriotic billionaires, development banks, and the evolution of state-finance nexus	7
Leftist governments, distributive strategies, and the politics of balance of payments-constrained growth in Chile and Uruguay	7
The limits to upgrading and value capture in R&D global value chains: Indian and Chinese contract R&D firms in the integrated circuit design and pharmaceutical global value chains	7
Monopolizing data, extracting value: Industry 4.0 technologies and intellectual monopoly in healthcare	7
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	7
The green banking gap: How bankability, business models, and regulations challenge banks’ decarbonisation	7
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	7
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	7
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	7
The environmental state: Analysing the ‘creation’ of renewable energy markets in the United Kingdom	7
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	7
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	6
Contractual restriction, business model, and institutional support: The multilevel configuration of platform-mediated care work and care precarity in Hong Kong	6
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	6
Breeding ‘unicorns’: Tracing the rise of the European investor state in the European venture capital market	6
Risks in the financialization of Chinese cities	5
CORRIGENDUM TO “The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities”	5
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	5
The anatomy of Chinese capitalism: Sectoral variation in party-state permeation and corporate governance	5
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	5
Too big to ignore: The Federal Advisory Council, monetary policy, and the interest rate preferences of banks	5
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	5
In practice and in principle: ‘Free market’ discourses and container port reform in Australia	5
The Japanification of China? A tale of two East Asian developmental states from the growth model perspective	5
Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry	5
Shareholders as the main beneficiaries of globalized production: Corporate financialization and value capture along global value chains	5
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	5
Financialization and corporate restructuring: A quantitative assessment	5
‘Nobody works on the platforms for health care or pension’: How do platform workers deal with the lack of social protection in a context of structural informality?	4
Industry 4.0 Inc.—Mergers and acquisitions and the digital transformation of German industry	4
Monetary subordination in the Eurozone: Pillars and asymmetries	4
Green financial power in geoeconomic times: Development banks between Wall Street and Paris	4

The role of the state in shaping the internationalization of firms in the twenty-first century	4
Datanalysing the uninsured: The coloniality of inclusive insurance platforms	4
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	4
Reclaiming power: Tokenization platforms and incumbency in global finance	4
Welfare state and platform workers’ protection: The role of government ideology in France and Italy	4
An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context	4
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	4
Financially engineering a “self-generative” political economy of creditworthiness: Expertocratic exemption problems for sustainable debt and democracy	4
Banks and the noisy geopolitics of big tech regulation in Europe	3
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	3
Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization	3
China’s role in Kazakhstan’s automotive sector: The complexity and complementarity of multi-vector state-to-state engagement and product diversification	3
From depoliticisation to repoliticisation: Rethinking Singapore’s developmental state in a post-industrial era	3
Bank credit, financial flows, and distribution of income in the Eurozone	3
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	3
Global value chains and wages under different wage setting mechanisms	3
The second financial services revolution? The quiet politics of open banking reform in the UK	3
Public spending and austerity: The two faces of the French Investor State	3
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	3
The Baltic growth model: Balanced growth under the EMU playbook	3
State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies	3
Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries	3
Commonality without convergence: An analytical framework Accounting for variegated financialisation in emerging economies	2
Fashion designers as lead firms from below: Creative economy, state capitalism and internationalization in Lagos and Nairobi	2
Digital technologies shaping the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work	2
Building an island of state capacity: How the UK state implemented the Thames Tideway Tunnel with market-based finance	2
Shareholder value orientation, corporate cash piles, and the myth of financial accumulation	2
Zoning trans-regional projects in the belt and road initiative: How does Chinese local government re-assemble policy and capital in the China–Myanmar economic zones	2
‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain	2
Book review: Garments without guilt? Global labour justice and ethical codes in Sri Lankan apparels	2
Regulation from the inside? Internal supervision in Dutch pension funds	2
Exploring the nexus of house price, income, homeownership types, and electoral democracy: Heterogeneous effects of housing wealth on political outcomes in OECD countries	2
Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech	2
Decarbonizing the downturn: Addressing climate change in an age of stagnation	2
Tokenization and the banking system: Redefining authority in the blockchain era	2
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	2
The active underbelly of developmentalism: The power of the state in the twenty-first century	2
Reconfiguring FDI dependency: SMEs as emerging stakeholders in an advanced peripheral export-led growth model	2
A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism	2