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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Desmond McNeill, Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century	100
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	41
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	35
Digital labour and welfare regimes: The impact of the institutional context on the prevalence of platform work	27
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	25
Reflections on the IPE of green finance	23
Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary	21
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	16
Corporate social responsibility as management idea: Between universal applicability and context dependency	15
Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker (eds), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK	15
Reinforcing Europe’s core: The EU’s new industrial policy and the case of semiconductors	14
Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach	13
‘FIRE’ on the horizon. The role of the state in the process of financialization of a national economy	13
Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: The dealignment of state and regime security	12
Investors as members in transnational sustainable finance initiatives: Collectors, mediators and performers	12
Introduction: The politics of growth, stagnation, and upgrading in peripheral advanced economies	10
Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance	10
Craig Berry, Pensions Imperilled	10
Winning the transition: Strategic state action in France and Germany amid the low carbon transition and energy shock	10
Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution	10
Erratum to “Multi-sided platforms and innovation: A competition law perspective”	9
Firm foundations: The statistical footprint of multinational corporations as a problem for political economy	9
Theoretical perspectives on mission drift of public sector banks: The German case	9
The European Investor State has no clothes. Generic promises and local weaknesses of green public subsidies in France	8
Producing and using artificial intelligence: What can Europe learn from Siemens’s experience?	8

Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary	8
International monetary hierarchy through emergency US-dollar liquidity: A key currency approach	8
Financial liberalization and the Indian non-financial, corporate sector	7
Cash holdings and corporate financialization: Evidence from listed Latin American firms	7
Contorting transformations: Uneven impacts of the U.S.–Mexico automotive industrial complex	7
Partial organization and economic coordination: The gradual re-organization of Finnish corporatism	7
Introduction	6
Who calls the shots? Development banks and the politics of de-risking in European external finance	6
Authoritarian populist turn and market capture in Turkey: The political economy of public procurement	6
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	6
The UK Infrastructure Bank and the financialization of public infrastructures amidst nationalist neoliberalism	6
Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously	5
The politics of structural reform in Ireland: Dominant growth coalitions, domestic business elites, and internal devaluation	5
Beyond corporate financialization: From global value chains to the conundrum of intangible investments	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
Quantitative Easing in Japan: A critical evaluation	5
From the post-industrial prophecy to the de-industrial nightmare: Stagnation, the manufacturing fetish and the limits of capitalist wealth	5
Skill-based dualisation in latecomer economies? Analysing core employment in South Korean firms	5
Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain	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
Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China	5
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	5
Repression and growth in the periphery of Europe: The politics of changing growth regime in Turkey	5
Governing public investment in Europe: The politics of off-balance-sheet policymaking, the rise of Eurostat and contrasted regional policies in Belgium	5
The environmental state: Analysing the ‘creation’ of renewable energy markets in the United Kingdom	5
Intersection of crises, discourses, and gender ideologies in change making: The case of Sri Lankan labour law reforms	5