OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Competition & Change is 1. 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
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	71
Salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance systems encouraging corporate social responsibility in an emerging market	31
Finance as a form of economic planning	29
Desmond McNeill, Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century	23
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	22
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	22
The knowledge-leveraging corporation in the neoliberalisation-financialisation nexus	21
Financially engineering a “self-generative” political economy of creditworthiness: Expertocratic exemption problems for sustainable debt and democracy	19
State capacity for green growth: Analyzing industrial policy in the Latin American lithium triangle	18
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	15
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	12
The multiple faces of financialization: Financial and business services in the US economy, 1997–2020	11
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	11
Industry evolution: Evidence from the Italian brewing industry	10
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	10
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	8
Making “strategic autonomy” rhyme with “fiscal austerity?” Unresolved conflicts of (geo)economic ideas in EU infrastructure policy	8
Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary	8
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	8
Erratum to “An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context”	8
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	7
Theorizing globalized production and digitalization: Towards a re-centering of value	7
Industrial policy and comparative political economy: A literature review and research agenda	7
Introduction	7
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	7

Decarbonisation through modernisation: The UK’s EV transition as a vehicle for industrial change	6
Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning	6
Risks in the financialization of Chinese cities	6
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	6
Cyber-physical decentralized planning for communizing	6
The limits of derisking. (Un)conditionality in the European green transformation	6
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	6
Avoiding the China shock: How Chinese state-backed internationalization drives changes in European economic governance	6
Disentangling the transformation of the German model: The role of firms’ strategic decisions and structural change	5
From vulnerability to stability? Latin American strategies to govern financial subordination	5
Governing by entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial ecosystems and socio-spatial difference	5
EU fiscal governance and the managerial reformatting of neoliberal constitutionalism	5
Global value chains and wages under different wage setting mechanisms	5
Product specialisation, global competition, and industrial decline: Portugal’s path to crisis	5
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	4
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	4
Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker (eds), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK	4
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	4
Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective	4
Reconceptualizing contemporary energy markets	4
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	3
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	3
‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town	3
From depoliticisation to repoliticisation: Rethinking Singapore’s developmental state in a post-industrial era	3
Public spending and austerity: The two faces of the French Investor State	3
The emergence of a New European Labour Policy regime: Continuity and change since the euro crisis	3
State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies	3
Assembling sustainability reporting in Singapore	3
Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries	3
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	3
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	3
The three ages of the European policy for productive investments	3
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	3
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	3
In practice and in principle: ‘Free market’ discourses and container port reform in Australia	3
From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Law, knowledge and space: Expertise across the legal geographies of green finance	2
No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality	2
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	2
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	2
Banks and the noisy geopolitics of big tech regulation in Europe	2
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	2
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	2
Conceptualizing contemporary markets: Introduction to the special issue	2
From “combined-but-not-unified” to “integrated isolation” - Greek banking in Europe 2010–2015	2
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	2
A stakeholder perspective of value creation versus value destruction under financialization: The cases of Bayer and Merck compared during 2000–2022	2
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	2
Technology and monetary sovereignty: Understanding motivations for central bank digital currencies	2
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	2

The second financial services revolution? The quiet politics of open banking reform in the UK	2
Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously	2
Digital markets, competition regimes and models of capitalism: A comparative institutional analysis of European and US responses to Google	2
Coping with digital market re-organization: How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power	2
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	2
The Big Society’s success in England: Neoliberalism as recomposition of public-institutional spaces	2
Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca	1
Commonality without convergence: An analytical framework Accounting for variegated financialisation in emerging economies	1
Book review: Unexpected Revolutionaries by Manuela Moschella	1
Craig Berry, Pensions Imperilled	1
Financialization and corporate restructuring: A quantitative assessment	1
Tokenization and the banking system: Redefining authority in the blockchain era	1
Temporary agency employment: A supplement to regular jobs – under certain circumstances	1
‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain	1
The contribution of digitalization to non-inclusive growth in Japan. A Régulationist perspective on post-industrial dynamics	1
Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain	1
From the post-industrial prophecy to the de-industrial nightmare: Stagnation, the manufacturing fetish and the limits of capitalist wealth	1
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	1