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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary	101
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	43
Digital labour and welfare regimes: The impact of the institutional context on the prevalence of platform work	38
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	28
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	26
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	26
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	18
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	17
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	16
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	14
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	14
Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery	14
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	12
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	11
Introduction: The politics of growth, stagnation, and upgrading in peripheral advanced economies	10
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	10
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	10
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance	10
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	9
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	9
Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	9
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	8
Who calls the shots? Development banks and the politics of de-risking in European external finance	8
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	8

The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	8
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	8
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	8
Financial liberalization and the Indian non-financial, corporate sector	8
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	7
The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches	6
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	6
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	6
Introduction	6
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	6
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	6
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	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	5
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	5
Breeding ‘unicorns’: Tracing the rise of the European investor state in the European venture capital market	5
Leftist governments, distributive strategies, and the politics of balance of payments-constrained growth in Chile and Uruguay	5
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	5
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
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	5
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	5
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	5
Too big to ignore: The Federal Advisory Council, monetary policy, and the interest rate preferences of banks	5
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	5
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	5
Quantitative Easing in Japan: A critical evaluation	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
Contractual restriction, business model, and institutional support: The multilevel configuration of platform-mediated care work and care precarity in Hong Kong	5
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”	4
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	4
The role of the state in shaping the internationalization of firms in the twenty-first century	4
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	4
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	4
In practice and in principle: ‘Free market’ discourses and container port reform in Australia	4
The (un)usual suspects? Exploring the links between illicit financial flows, Russian money laundering and dependent financialization in the Baltic states	4
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	4
Concentration and competition from global to local: The Southern African poultry industry	4
Sick with “shareholder value”: US pharma’s financialized business model during the pandemic	4
Financially engineering a “self-generative” political economy of creditworthiness: Expertocratic exemption problems for sustainable debt and democracy	3
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	3
The anatomy of Chinese capitalism: Sectoral variation in party-state permeation and corporate governance	3
‘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
The Japanification of China? A tale of two East Asian developmental states from the growth model perspective	3
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	3
Financialization and corporate restructuring: A quantitative assessment	3
An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context	3
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	3
The Baltic growth model: Balanced growth under the EMU playbook	3

Datanalysing the uninsured: The coloniality of inclusive insurance platforms	3
Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary	3
‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan	2
China’s role in Kazakhstan’s automotive sector: The complexity and complementarity of multi-vector state-to-state engagement and product diversification	2
Illiberal Versus Externally Fomented growth model readjustment: post-GFC state aid in the EU’s semi-periphery	2
The second financial services revolution? The quiet politics of open banking reform in the UK	2
Global value chains and wages under different wage setting mechanisms	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
Bank credit, financial flows, and distribution of income in the Eurozone	2
Coping with digital market re-organization: How the hotel industry strategically responds to digital platform power	2
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	2
Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization	2
Public spending and austerity: The two faces of the French Investor State	2
Banks and the noisy geopolitics of big tech regulation in Europe	2
Different status, same demands? The social policy preferences of platform workers in OECD countries	2
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	2