Industrial and Corporate Change

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Volume 30, issue 6, 2021

Not all technological change is equal: how the separability of tasks mediates the effect of technology change on skill demand (Patterns of industrial innovation) pp. 1361-1387

Christophe Combemale, Kate S Whitefoot, Laurence Ales and Erica R H Fuchs

Blockchain as Schumpeter Mark 1 or Mark 2? An empirical analysis of blockchain job offers in France and Germany (Innovation: mapping the winds of creative destruction) pp. 1388-1402

Martin Cimiterra, Jackie Krafft and Lionel Nesta

Assessing the collaboration and network additionality of innovation policies: a counterfactual approach to the French cluster policy (Propensity scores based methods for estimating average treatment effect and average treatment effect among treated: a comparative study) pp. 1403-1428

Konan Alain N’Ghauran and Corinne Autant-Bernard

Workers in the crowd: the labor market impact of the online platform economy (An evaluation of instrumental variable strategies for estimating the effects of catholic schooling) pp. 1429-1458

Michele Cantarella and Chiara Strozzi

The “sailing-ship effect” as a technological principle (Patterns of industrial innovation) pp. 1459-1478

Nicola De Liso, Serena Arima and Giovanni Filatrella

The paradox of China’s tobacco industry: competition through monopoly policy (The market for “lemons”: quality uncertainty and the market mechanism) pp. 1479-1498

Allen Liao and Benjamin Cole

Market power and R&D investment: the case of China (Competition and innovation: an inverted-U relationship) pp. 1499-1515

Xiaohua Sun, Fang Yuan and Yun Wang

Work flexibility and firm growth: evidence from LEED data on the Emilia-Romagna region (Industrial policy and the future of manufacturing) pp. 1516-1538

Alessandro Arrighetti, Luca Cattani, Fabio Landini and Andrea Lasagni

A conceptual framework for latecomer linkage capabilities (Project execution capability, organizational know-how and conglomerate corporate growth in late industrialization) pp. 1539-1556

Tobias Reinauer and Ulrich Elmer Hansen

Trade specialization and performance in global value chains (Internalizing global value chains: a firm-level analysis) pp. 1557-1590

Filippo Bontadini

Supporting innovative entrepreneurship: an evaluation of the Italian “Start-up Act” (The effects of entry on incumbent innovation and productivity) pp. 1591-1614

Francesco Manaresi, Carlo Menon and Pietro Santoleri

Are start-ups funded by public venture capital different? New cross-country evidence from micro-data (Executive forum: the scale-up gap: and how to address it) pp. 1615-1632

Stefano Breschi, Nick Johnstone and Carlo Menon

Technological paradigms and the power of convergence (Demand heterogeneity and technology evolution: implications for product and process innovation) pp. 1633-1654

Mattia Pedota, Luca Grilli and Lucia Piscitello

Do not put eggs in one basket: related variety and export resilience in the post-crisis era (Exports and financial shocks) pp. 1655-1676

Canfei He, Tao Chen and Shengjun Zhu

Volume 30, issue 5, 2021

Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction (Ecosystem as structure: an actionable construct for strategy) pp. 1131-1142

Michael G Jacobides and Ioannis Lianos

Competition law and digital ecosystems: Learning to walk before we run (Competition and innovation: an inverted-U relationship) pp. 1143-1167

Frederic Jenny

Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition (Patterns of industrial innovation) pp. 1168-1198

Nicolas Petit and David J Teece

Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice (Ecosystem as structure: an actionable construct for strategy) pp. 1199-1229

Michael G Jacobides and Ioannis Lianos

Digital platforms and the transactions cost approach to competition law (Digital platforms inquiry: Final report, Technical report, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) pp. 1230-1258

Darryl Biggar and Alberto Heimler

Can self-regulation save digital platforms? (Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care) pp. 1259-1285

Michael A Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B Yoffie

Unscrambling the eggs: breaking up consummated mergers and dominant firms (Too much data: prices and inefficiencies in data markets) pp. 1286-1306

John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti

Platform mergers and antitrust (Ex-post assessment of merger control decisions in digital markets) pp. 1307-1336

Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos and Marshall Van Alstyne

Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection (Merger policy in digital markets: an ex post assessment) pp. 1337-1360

Beatriz Kira, Vikram Sinha and Sharmadha Srinivasan

Volume 30, issue 4, 2021

Animate the cluster or subsidize collaborative R&D? A multiple overlapping treatments approach to assess the impacts of the French cluster policy (The impact of R&D subsidies on R&D employment composition) pp. 845-867

Modou Mar and Nadine Massard

Shareholders’ greed and corporate value growth (Does the pecking order hypothesis explain the dividend payout ratios of firms in the UK?) pp. 868-883

Emanuele Teti, Leonella Gori and Veronica Magnanini

The impact of intellectual property rights on labor productivity: do constitutions matter? (Research and development in the growth process) pp. 884-904

Emanuela Carbonara, Giuseppina Gianfreda, Enrico Santarelli and Giovanna Vallanti

Evaluating an organizational innovation: evidence from the conglomerate merger wave (Fools rush in? The institutional context of industry creation) pp. 905-926

Peter Klein, Robert Wuebker, Mo Chen and Kathrin Zoeller

Technological regimes and catching up in the product space (Demand saturation-creation and economic growth) pp. 927-947

Benoît Desmarchelier and Paulo Regis

The paradoxical effect of prior operating experience and observational learning on new market entry (Resetting the clock: the dynamics of organizational change and failure) pp. 948-965

Ann Terlaak and June Young Kim

Local search or beyond? The influence of interfirm technological distance on co-innovation success (How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data) pp. 966-982

Dong Huo

Introduction to the Special Section “Economic Catch-up by Latecomers” (Beyond catch-up: could China become the global innovation powerhouse? China’s innovation progress and challenges from a holistic innovation perspective) pp. 983-985

Jin Chen, Keun Lee and Franco Malerba

An evolutionary perspective on economic catch-up by latecomers (Catching-up, forging ahead, and falling behind) pp. 986-1010

Franco Malerba and Keun Lee

Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model (Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind) pp. 1011-1036

Giovanni Dosi, Andrea Roventini and Emanuele Russo

Beyond catch-up: could China become the global innovation powerhouse? China’s innovation progress and challenges from a holistic innovation perspective (Ecosystem as structure: an actionable construct for strategy) pp. 1037-1064

Jin Chen, Ximing Yin, Xiaolan Fu and Bruce McKern

Deepening or delinking? Innovative capacity and global value chain participation in the IT industry (Breakthrough? China’s and India’s transition from production to innovation) pp. 1065-1083

Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti and Antonio Vezzani

Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies (Global Innovation Systems—a conceptual framework for innovation dynamics in transnational contexts) pp. 1084-1107

Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba and Andrea Morrison

Catch up of complex products and systems: lessons from China’s high-speed rail sectoral system (Exploring the capital goods economy: complex product systems in the UK) pp. 1108-1130

Liang Mei and Nana Zhang

Volume 30, issue 3, 2021

Automation, digitalization, and changes in occupational structures in the automobile industry in Germany, Japan, and the United States: a brief history from the early 1990s until 2018 (Managing flexible automation) pp. 499-535

Martin Krzywdzinski

Measuring the impacts of labor in the platform economy: new work created, old work reorganized, and value creation reconfigured (Probing for informal work activity) pp. 536-563

Dafna Bearson, Martin Kenney and John Zysman

R&D collaborations along the industry life cycle: the case of German photovoltaics manufacturer (Patterns of industrial innovation) pp. 564-586

Ann Hipp

Endogenous financial constraints and innovation (Financial dependence and innovation: the case of public versus private firms) pp. 587-621

Henry Lahr and Andrea Mina

How does firm innovation size affect the timing of technology licensing? Theory and evidence from China (Moving beyond Schumpeter: management research on the determinants of technological innovation) pp. 622-651

Rongkang Ma, Shanshan Zhu and Fengchao Liu

Successful transition to a market economy: an interpretation from organizational ecology theory and institutional theory (The assessment: economics of transition in Eastern and Central Europe) pp. 652-677

Hien Thu Tran and Enrico Santarelli

That’s classified! Inventing a new patent taxonomy (Text matching to measure patent similarity) pp. 678-705

Stephen Billington and Alan J Hanna

Absorption of foreign knowledge: the impact of immigrants on firm productivity (Identification properties of recent production function estimators) pp. 706-739

Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören and Sanne Kruse-Becher

Public procurement in Big Science: politics or technology? The case of CERN (Does CERN procurement result in innovation?) pp. 740-761

Andrea Bastianin and Chiara Del Bo

Social capital, resilience, and regional diversification in Italy (Social capital, innovation and growth: evidence from Europe) pp. 762-777

Roberto Antonietti and Ron Boschma

Can trust induce vertical integration? An experimental study of buyer–seller exchanges with distinct competencies and specific investments (Capabilities, transaction costs and firm boundaries) pp. 778-798

Luiz F Mesquita, Maria Sylvia M Saes, Sérgio G Lazzarini and Leandro S Pongeluppe

Beyond the truce: how conflict affects teams’ decisions whether to enact routines or creative projects (Organizational routines: a review of the literature) pp. 799-822

Patrick J Oehler, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, Isabell M Welpe and David Obstfeld

The reluctant preference: communities of enthusiasts and the diffusion of atypical innovation (Management fashion) pp. 823-843

Giovanni Formilan and Cristina Boari

Volume 30, issue 2, 2021

Introduction to the first annual special issue on Macro Economics and Development (Beyond DSGE models: toward an empirically based macroeconomics) pp. 269-271

Giovanni Dosi and Joseph Stiglitz

Disarray at the headquarters: Economists and Central bankers tested by the subprime and the COVID recessions (Forward guidance without common knowledge) pp. 273-296

Francisco Louçã, Alexandre Abreu and Gonçalo Pessa Costa

Economic fluctuations and pseudo-wealth (Emerging market business cycles: the cycle is the trend) pp. 297-315

Joseph Stiglitz and Martin M Guzman

Taking uncertainty seriously: simplicity versus complexity in financial regulation (Uncertainty in macroeconomic policy-making: art or science?) pp. 317-345

David Aikman, Mirta Galesic, Gerd Gigerenzer, Sujit Kapadia, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Amit Kothiyal, Emma Murphy and Tobias Neumann

On the (In)consistency of RE modeling (Positive feedback investment strategies and destabilizing rational speculation) pp. 347-356

Daniel Heymann and Paulo Pascuini

Disequilibrium macroeconometrics (The financial crisis and the systemic failure of the academics profession) pp. 357-376

Katarina Juselius

The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay (It’s where you work: increases in the dispersion of earnings across establishments and individuals in the United States) pp. 377-408

Giovanni Dosi, Richard Freeman, Marcelo Pereira, Andrea Roventini and Maria Enrica Virgillito

Sources of inflation and the effects of balanced budgets and inflation targeting in developing economies (The macroeconomics of low inflation) pp. 409-444

Guilherme Martins and Peter Skott

The rise in inequality after pandemics: can fiscal support play a mitigating role? (Epidemics, inequality, and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial time) pp. 445-457

Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan Ostry and Pietro Pizzuto

Fighting the scarring effects of COVID-19 (Stagnation traps) pp. 459-466

Valerie Cerra, Antonio Fatas and Sweta Saxena

The pandemic economic crisis, precautionary behavior, and mobility constraints: an application of the dynamic disequilibrium model with randomness† (A new view of technological change) pp. 467-497

Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman

Volume 30, issue 1, 2021

How context and attention shape behaviors in online communities: a modified garbage can model (Complexity theory and organization science) pp. 1-18

Nicolai J. Foss, Lars Bo Jeppesen and Francesco Rullani

The utilization of cluster externalities and recessionary shocks (Employment growth and entrepreneurial activity in cities) pp. 19-43

Linus Holtermann, Christian Hundt, Jonas Steeger and Johannes Bersch

Knowledge intermediation strategies: a dynamic capability perspective (Managing assets and skills: the key to a sustainable competitive advantage) pp. 49-74

Namatié Traoré, Nabil Amara and Khalil Rhaiem

Worker flows, reallocation dynamics, and firm productivity: new evidence from longitudinal matched employer–employee data (Optimal and dysfunctional turnover: toward an organizational level model) pp. 75-108

Elena Grinza

Ongoing customization in project-based organizations (Rethinking stability and change in the study of organizational routines: difference and repetition in a newspaper-printing factory) pp. 109-122

Seungho Choi and Kent D.Miller

Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution: an introduction to the special section (The magnitude of innovation by demand in a sectoral system: the role of industrial users in semiconductors) pp. 123-135

Daitian Li, Zheng Liang, Fredrik Tell and Lan Xue

Is the fourth industrial revolution a continuation of the third industrial revolution or something new under the sun? Analyzing technological regimes using US patent data (Vertical integration and disintegration of computer firms: a history-friendly model of the coevolution of the computer and semiconductor industries) pp. 137-159

Jongho Lee and Keun Lee

The enabling technologies of industry 4.0: examining the seeds of the fourth industrial revolution (Mapping innovation dynamics in the Internet of Things domain: evidence from patent analysis) pp. 161-188

Arianna Martinelli, Andrea Mina and Massimo Moggi

Catch-up and the entry strategies of latecomers: Chinese firms in the mobile phone sector (EMNE catch-up strategies in the wind turbine industry: is there a trade-off between output and innovation capabilities?) pp. 189-213

Gianluca Capone, Daitian Li and Franco Malerba

Innovation, upgrading, and governance in cross-sectoral global value chains: the case of smartphones (Institutions and sectoral logics in creative industries: the media cluster in Cologne) pp. 215-231

Joonkoo Lee and Gary Gereffi

Exploring new opportunities through collaboration within and beyond sectoral systems of innovation in the fourth industrial revolution (Financial dependence and innovation: the case of public versus private firms) pp. 233-249

Xiaolan Fu, Xiaoqing (Maggie) Fu, Carmen Contreras Romero and Jianping Pan

How data shape actor relations in artificial intelligence innovation systems: an empirical observation from China (Linking vertically related industries: entry by employee spinouts across industry boundaries) pp. 251-267

Zhen Yu, Zheng Liang and Peiyi Wu