Industrial and Corporate Change Association

Industrial and Corporate Change is committed to presenting and interpreting corporate organization and change, innovation, industrial structures and dynamics, drawing from a variety of disciplines, including economics, management, history, political science, and sociology. The ICC Editors strive to publish papers that have sound theory and appropriate methods, whatever the method may be, and that are relevant with clear implications for the economy, organizations, management, public policy, or society.

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Volume 35
Issue 1
February 2026

Editor’s Choice

Workplace governance and labor perceptions of technological risks and benefits

Industrial and Corporate Change
Volume 35
Issue 1
February 2026 
https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaf059

Jane Gingrich, Nicole Wu, Baobao Zhang

Abstract

This paper examines the connection between emerging workplace technologies and workers’ preferences, actions, and mobilization. Some workers organize against innovations in the workplace because they fear that the deployment of emerging technologies could exacerbate inequality. But more often, workers adopt or acquiesce to emerging technologies. Our paper argues that understanding workers’ responses (and non-responses) to technology requires taking the work context seriously. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, it conceptualizes different forms of workplace power that moderate the consequences of technological adoption, connecting these forms of power to various dimensions of workers’ preferences. It then reflects upon the methodological challenges of studying preferences and power. The analysis underscores the need for mid-level theoretical and empirical research of work contexts to advance the agenda on inclusive innovation.

Original articles

Fostering creativity through the exploitation of scientific and technological knowledge: An in-depth study of technology development in the lithium-ion battery field

Paul-Emmanuel Anckaert and Bruno Cassiman


Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared

Henrich R Greve and Marc-David L Seidel


Patent eligibility uncertainty and the VC financing of novel technologies

Shivaram V Devarakonda and Vilma Chila


Gender gaps in the gig economy: consequences for entrepreneurship in the 21st century

Christopher J Boudreaux


Putting intangible inputs and global value chains into work: New sources of manufacturing comparative advantage in global markets

Petros Dimas, Yannis Caloghirou, Aggelos Tsakanikas, Nicholas S Vonortas


Long-run patterns in the discovery of the adjacent possible

Josef Taalbi


Regulation as opportunity: proactive GDPR compliance in the US financial services industry

Ruiqing (Sam) Cao and Tobias Kretschmer


SPECIAL SECTION: INNOVATION AND EQUITY: PLACES AND PRACTICES

Innovation and equity: places and practices an introduction to the special section

Dan Breznitz, Jane Gingrich, Amos Zehavi


Prosperous places: processes, policies, and practices

Christof Brandtner, Olav Sorenson, Maryann Feldman


An equity-focused research agenda for workplace surveillance

Dan Breznitz, Karen Levy, Kenneth Lipartito, Amos Zehavi


Workplace governance and labor perceptions of technological risks and benefits*

Jane Gingrich, Nicole Wu, Baobao Zhang


Balancing spatial equalities by place-based inclusive innovation policy: the cases of Israel and Korea

Keun Lee, Jungho Kim, Amos Zehavi


From innovation versus equity to innovation and equity

Walter W Powell

*Editor’s Choice