OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Competition & Change is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa	122
Amazon: A story of accumulation through intellectual rentiership and predation	42
Digitalization and the geographies of production: Towards reshoring or global fragmentation?	42
Industrial policy and comparative political economy: A literature review and research agenda	34
Same same, but different: Varieties of capital markets, Chinese state capitalism and the global financial order	33
Paradigms and the political economy of ecopolitical projects: Green growth and degrowth compared	32
Oligopoly-driven development: The World Bank’s Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains in perspective	21
Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers?	19
When Brussels meets shadow banking – Technical complexity, regulatory agency and the reconstruction of the shadow banking chain	18
Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?	18
Neoliberalism as Corporate Power	18
Three varieties of Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Rule by the experts, the people, the leader	17
The substitutive state? Neoliberal state interventionism across industrial, housing and private pensions policy in the UK	17
Financialization at work: Shareholder primacy and stagnant wages in the United States	16
Intellectual property, technorents and the labour share of production	16
Inequality, poverty and the privatization of essential services: A ‘systems of provision’ study of water, energy and local buses in the UK	15
Financialization and state capitalism in Hungary after the Global Financial Crisis	15
‘There is nothing there’: Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town	13
Digital connectivity at the upstream end of value chains: A dynamic perspective on smartphone adoption amongst horticultural smallholders in Kenya	13
Competition and power in global value chains	12
Augmenting digital monopolies: A corporate financialization perspective on the rise of Big Tech	12
Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca	12
Competition and monopoly in the U.S. economy: What do the industrial concentration data show?	11
From passive owners to planet savers? Asset managers, carbon majors and the limits of sustainable finance	11
The epistemic evolution of market authority: Big data, blockchain and China’s neostatist challenge to neoliberalism	10

Coping with commoditization: The third-party logistics industry in the Asia-Pacific	9
When the state goes transnational: The political economy of China’s engagement with Indonesia	8
The Gulf’s shifting geoeconomy and China’s structural power: From the petrodollar to the petroyuan?	8
The advanced producer services complex as an obligatory passage point: Evidence from rent extraction by investment banks	8
Decarbonizing the downturn: Addressing climate change in an age of stagnation	8
Introduction	7
Infrastructures of globalisation. Shifts in global order and Europe’s strategic choices	7
The moral economy of the algorithmic crowd: Possessive collectivisim and techno-economic rentiership	7
Financial natives: Real estate developers at work	6
Introduction to special issue on digitalization, labour and global production	6
Financialization and union decline in Canada: The influence on sectors and core industries	6
Owner–manager perceptions of regulation and micro-firm performance: An exploratory view	5
Markets are constantly collapsing: Reconceptualizing ‘the market’ as a quantum social wavefunction	5
Convergent and divergent trajectories of corporate governance	5
The effects of culture, attitudes and perceptions on industrial cluster policy: The case of Russia	5
How and why do MNCs communicate their corporate social responsibility in developing countries? Evidence from Bangladesh	5
Ceci n’est pas un Capital Markets Union: Re-establishing EU-led financialization	5
Elephant limps, but jaguar stumbles: Unpacking the divergence of state capitalism in Brazil and India through theories of capitalist diversity	5
No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality	5
Industry evolution: Evidence from the Italian brewing industry	5