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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	114
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	47
Digital labour and welfare regimes: The impact of the institutional context on the prevalence of platform work	39
Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary	29
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	27
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	26
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	22
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	22
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	17
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	17
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	15
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	15
Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery	15
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	13
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	12
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance	11
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	11
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	10
Introduction: The politics of growth, stagnation, and upgrading in peripheral advanced economies	10
Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	10
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	10
The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	9
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	9
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	9
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	9

Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	9
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	9
The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches	8
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	8
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	8
Introduction	8
Who calls the shots? Development banks and the politics of de-risking in European external finance	8
Financial liberalization and the Indian non-financial, corporate sector	8
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	7
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	7
Is inclusive growth still possible with post-industrial transformation? Emerging evidence from East Asia in a historical institutionalist perspective	7
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	7
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	6
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	6
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	6
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	6
Quantitative Easing in Japan: A critical evaluation	6
Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously	6
Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain	6
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	6
The environmental state: Analysing the ‘creation’ of renewable energy markets in the United Kingdom	5
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	5
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	5
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	5
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	5
Contractual restriction, business model, and institutional support: The multilevel configuration of platform-mediated care work and care precarity in Hong Kong	5
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	5
Breeding ‘unicorns’: Tracing the rise of the European investor state in the European venture capital market	5
Risks in the financialization of Chinese cities	5
Too big to ignore: The Federal Advisory Council, monetary policy, and the interest rate preferences of banks	5
CORRIGENDUM TO “The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities”	5
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	5
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	5
Leftist governments, distributive strategies, and the politics of balance of payments-constrained growth in Chile and Uruguay	5
Monopolizing data, extracting value: Industry 4.0 technologies and intellectual monopoly in healthcare	5
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	5
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	5
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	4
The role of the state in shaping the internationalization of firms in the twenty-first century	4
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	4
In practice and in principle: ‘Free market’ discourses and container port reform in Australia	4
Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry	4
The Japanification of China? A tale of two East Asian developmental states from the growth model perspective	4
‘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?	3
Datanalysing the uninsured: The coloniality of inclusive insurance platforms	3
The Baltic growth model: Balanced growth under the EMU playbook	3
Financially engineering a “self-generative” political economy of creditworthiness: Expertocratic exemption problems for sustainable debt and democracy	3
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	3
The anatomy of Chinese capitalism: Sectoral variation in party-state permeation and corporate governance	3
Welfare state and platform workers’ protection: The role of government ideology in France and Italy	3

An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context	3
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	3
Global value chains and wages under different wage setting mechanisms	3
Financialization and corporate restructuring: A quantitative assessment	3
Monetary subordination in the Eurozone: Pillars and asymmetries	3
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	3
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	3
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
The rise of anti-establishment and far-right forces in Italy: Neoliberalisation in a new guise?	2
China’s role in Kazakhstan’s automotive sector: The complexity and complementarity of multi-vector state-to-state engagement and product diversification	2
Bank credit, financial flows, and distribution of income in the Eurozone	2
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	2
Banks and the noisy geopolitics of big tech regulation in Europe	2
‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain	2
Tokenization and the banking system: Redefining authority in the blockchain era	2
Decarbonizing the downturn: Addressing climate change in an age of stagnation	2
Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries	2
Public spending and austerity: The two faces of the French Investor State	2
Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization	2
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	2
Commonality without convergence: An analytical framework Accounting for variegated financialisation in emerging economies	2
The second financial services revolution? The quiet politics of open banking reform in the UK	2
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	2
State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies	2
From depoliticisation to repoliticisation: Rethinking Singapore’s developmental state in a post-industrial era	2
Coping with digital market re-organization: How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power	2