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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary	104
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	44
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	38
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	28
Digital labour and welfare regimes: The impact of the institutional context on the prevalence of platform work	27
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	26
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	22
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	19
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	17
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	17
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	15
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	15
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	15
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	13
Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery	12
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
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance	10
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	10
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	9
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	9
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	9
Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	9
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	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
The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	8
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	8
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	8
The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches	7
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	7
Is inclusive growth still possible with post-industrial transformation? Emerging evidence from East Asia in a historical institutionalist perspective	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
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
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
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	6
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	5
Monopolizing data, extracting value: Industry 4.0 technologies and intellectual monopoly in healthcare	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
The environmental state: Analysing the ‘creation’ of renewable energy markets in the United Kingdom	5
Leftist governments, distributive strategies, and the politics of balance of payments-constrained growth in Chile and Uruguay	5
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	5
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	5
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	5
Contractual restriction, business model, and institutional support: The multilevel configuration of platform-mediated care work and care precarity in Hong Kong	5
The platformization and marketization of care: Business models and competitive strategies of care platforms	5
Quantitative Easing in Japan: A critical evaluation	5
Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world?	5
Centre-periphery in the European Union: Analysis of wages and productivity in the transport equipment sector	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
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	5