Overview
Richard R. Nelson Prize
Special Sections and Issues for 2015
Selected Special Sections and Issues for 2010-2014
Highly-Cited ICC Articles
ICC Editorial Board
ICC Page at Oxford University Press
Overview
Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC) is an academic, peer-reviewed, journal published six times a year by Oxford University Press that seeks to accommodate the interests of scholars, policymakers, and managers who are both active researchers and practitioners on issues of industrial and corporate change, particularly with regard to innovation, organization, industrial change, and corporate management. Applying a variety of methodological approaches – statistical and historical analysis, mathematical modeling and computer simulations, case studies, and appreciative theorizing – ICC authors offer novel contributions to the understanding of technological change, organizational processes, and organizational structures.
Founded in 1992, Industrial and Corporate Change is sponsored by the Institute for Business Innovation (IBI) at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with the ICCAssociazione, Milan, Italy, and its publisher Oxford University Press. IBI coordinates ICC operations and implements the directives and policies of ICC Editors who are located in Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden and Switzerland. It is backed by an illustrious board of Scientific Committee and Associate Editor members, including Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Oliver E. Williamson, and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Since 1998 ICC has widened its programmatic net to include contributions from organization theory, experimental economics, economic sociology, and economic anthropology. More recently ICC has emphasized East Asia and South Asia economics regions by welcoming contributions from those regions and sponsoring special issues on related regional themes, while bringing on board scholars on East and Southeast Asia.
Many of the special issues of Industrial and Corporate Change have been turned into books published by Oxford University Press. In addition, ICC has brought out a collection of classics from its first decade of publication Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change (Oxford University Press, 2005) while Shanghai Peoples Press provided a 2007 Chinese translation of Technology, Organization and Competitiveness (Oxford University Press, 1998). ICC further intends to produce a volume marking its first twenty-five years of expanding operation (1992-2017).
Interested readers may access the Oxford University Press ICC website at: //icc.oxfordjournals.org/ which provides facilities for viewing the current ICC issue, including abstracts for each article, and browsing the ICC archives, as well as the ICC Editors’ Choice of Articles for recent issues.
Richard R. Nelson Prize
The Richard R. Nelson Prize is awarded every two years for the best article, alternatively, in the academic journals Industrial and Corporate Change (Oxford University Press) and Research Policy (Sage) Representatives from the Editors of both journals act as judges for the best article with a tilt toward younger scholars. At the present time the award includes a prize of $3,000 and all expenses toward attending the Nelson Award Prize Dinner to be held at the University of California, Berkeley. The choice of journals reflects Professor Richard R. Nelson’s favorites in the scholarly fields to which he has made major contributions.
The 2014 prize has been awarded to Professor Kira R. Fabrizio for her article, “Absorptive Capacity and the Search for Innovation.” [Learn more]
Special Sections and Issues for 2015
During the publication year 2015 Industrial and Corporate Change is pleased to announce a series of important special issues and special sections:
Issue 24:3 – Knowledge Generation and Innovation Diffusion in the Global Automotive Industry: Change and Stability during Turbulent Times
Starting with issue 24:3, ICC is providing a special section on Knowledge Generation and Innovation Diffusion in the Global Automotive Industry: Change and Stability during Turbulent Times, edited by Anja Schulze (University of Zürich), John Paul MacDuffie (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), and Florian A. Täube (Free University of Brussels).
The special section addresses dramatic changes in the global automotive industry by studying current phenomena and theoretical discussions. It approaches the industry as an ecosystem characterized by dominant automakers acting as system integrators and it highlights current drivers of the global, regulatory, and technical changes in the industry and its response in both novel and extant ways of innovating.
Topics covered include:
- The Detroit Auto Cluster (Ram Mudambi, Temple University)
- Online Communities for Vehicle Design (Victor P. Seidel, Babson College, and Benedikt Langner, Bain & Company)
- Formal One Racing (Paolo Aversa, Santi Furnari, and Stefan Haefliger, City University London)
- The Renault Zero Emission Initiative (Felix von Pechmann, Christophe Midler, Rémi Maniak, and Florence Charue-Duboc, École Polytechnique Paris)
- The Minivan Market Segment (Daniel E. Engler, Illinois State University), and
- Red Queen Dynamics in the Product Survival Race (M. Berk Talay, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Janell D. Townsend, Oakland University)
Issue 24:4 – Steven Klepper’s Contributions to Industry Evolution, Entrepreneurship and Geography
For issue 24:4, ICC is proud to present an entire special issue in honor of the late Steven Klepper’s Contributions to Industry Evolution, Entrepreneurship and Geography. The special issue is edited by Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland), Guido Buenstorf (University of Kassel), Wesley M. Cohen (Duke University), and Franco Malerba (Bocconi University).
The special issue highlights Steven Klepper’s pioneering work linking life cycle patterns in industry evolution to underlying micro level firm innovation dynamics and employee entrepreneurship as well as to the macro level implications regarding geographical agglomeration and the growth of economies.
Topics covered include:
- Steven Klepper and Business History (David C. Mowery, University of California, Berkeley)
- Japan’s Early Cotton Spinning Industry (Serguey Braguinsky, Carnegie Mellon University)
- The Role of Firm Size (Ashish Arora and Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University)
- Vertical Firm Structure and Industry Evolution (Constance E. Helfat, Dartmouth University)
- New Firm Hiring (Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University, and Steven Klepper, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Spinoffs in Silicon Valley (Cristobal Cheyre, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Jon Kowalski, McKinsey & Company, and Francisco Veloso, Universidade Católica Portuguesa).
In addition, ICC is preparing the following special sections for publication in 2015:
Open Innovation, edited by Henry Chesbrough (University of California, Berkeley), Joel West (Kerk Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences), and Christopher Tucci (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
Exaptation as a New Perspective on Creativity and Innovation, edited by Gino Cattani (New York University) and Pierpaolo Andriani (Kedge Business School, France).
Selected Special Sections and Issues for 2010-2014
In addition to its regular articles, Industrial and Corporate Change frequently publishes special issues and sections. Recent examples include:
- High-Growth Firms (2014), a study of the importance of high-growth firms for future industrial performance as well as a warning that they are unlikely to be useful vehicles for public policy.
- Finance, Innovation and Growth: Reforming a Dysfunctional System (2013), proposing that bringing finance back after the 2007 financial crisis to serve the real economy will require de-financializing companies and re-structuring finance for the long-term capital required by innovation.
- Entrepreneurship (2013), a series of detailed studies of institutions in the United States and Sweden that are of particular importance for entrepreneurship and innovation-based firm growth.
- Building Innovation Systems (2012), explorations of some frontier developments in innovation theory with emphasis on the institutional conditions under which policies produce results.
- Management Innovation: Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (2010), a celebration of business historian Alfred D. Chandler’s intellectual legacy and the larger impacts of his reading of the industrial corporation as an institution both central to the economy and rooted in society.
Highly-Cited ICC Articles
Among the most highly-cited articles in Industrial and Corporate Change over the past ten years are:
- Constance E. Helfat, “Vertical Firm Structure and Industry Evolution.”
- Xiaodan Yu, Giovani Dosi, Jiasu Lei and Alessandro Nuvolari, “Institutional Change and Productivity Growth in China’s Manufacturing: The Microeconomics of Knowledge Accumulation and ‘Creative Restructuring’ (2015).
- Ana Luiza de Araújo Burcharth and Andrea Fosfuri, “Not Invented Here: How Institutionalized Socialization Practices Affect the Formation of Negative Attitudes toward External Knowledge” (2015).
- Ron D. Katznelson and John Howells, “The Myth of the Early Aviation Patent Hold-up: How a U.S. Government Monopsony Commandeered Pioneer Airplane Patents” (2015)
- Paul Nightingale and Alex Coad, “Muppets and Gazelles: Political and Methodological Biases in Entrepreneurial Research” (2014), a path-breaking critique of the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurial activity automatically provides a positive driving force in the economy.
- Nathan Rosenberg and W. Edward Steinmueller, “Engineering Knowledge” (2013), highlighting features in engineering knowledge in U.S. university research for agriculture, aviation and chemicals that has distinguished it from scientific knowledge and supported changes in the roles of universities over the past century.
- Francesco Lissoni, Jacques Mairesse, Fabio Montobbio, and Michele Pezzoni, “Scientific Productivity and Academic Promotions: A Study of French and Italian Physicists” (2011), concluding from an investigation of French and Italian academic physicists that the size and international nature of collaborative projects and co-authors’ past productivity, as well as age, gender, and past productivity, have significant impacts on current productivity and on promotion opportunities.
- Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger, and Cédric Schneider, “Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting” (2011), investigating the importance of academic patenting to conclude, among other results, that such involvement results in a citation premium as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations.
- Max-Peter Menzel and Dirk Fornahl, “Cluster Life Cycles – Dimensions and Rationales of Cluster Evolution” (2010), presenting a model to explain how cluster dynamics covers both the driver for the movement of a cluster through a life cycle and the reason why this movement differs from the industry life cycle.
- Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella, “Ideas for Rent: An Overview of Markets for Technology” (2010), arguing that recent literature on technology, by focusing on the supply of technology, has overlooked the demand for external technology, the role of uncertainty in technology markets, and the dynamic interaction between industry structure and the market for technology.
Industrial and Corporate Change Editorial Board
David Teece, University of California, Berkeley
Stefano Brusoni, ETH Zürich
Glenn Carroll, Stanford University
Giovanni Dosi, St’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Daniel Levinthal, University of Pennsylvania
Franco Malerba, Università Bocconi
Paul Nightingale, University of Sussex
Fredrik Tell, Linköping University
Managing Editor: Josef Chytry, University of California, Berkeley
For the full editorial board, please see:
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