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    History and the debate over intellectual property

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    Authors
    Peng, Mike
    Ahlstrom, D.
    Carraher, S.
    Shi, W.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Peng, M. and Ahlstrom, D. and Carraher, S. and Shi, W. 2017. History and the debate over intellectual property. Management and Organization Review. 13 (1): pp. 15-38.
    Source Title
    Management and Organization Review
    DOI
    10.1017/mor.2016.53
    ISSN
    1740-8776
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53159
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This article responds to recent calls for organizational research to address larger, more globally relevant questions and to pay attention to history, by analyzing the crucial debate over intellectual property rights (IPR) between the United States and China. Despite the recent US position, the United States has not always been a leading IPR advocate. Rather, it was a leading IPR violator during the nineteenth century. An institution-based view of IPR history suggests that both the US refusal to protect foreign IPR in the nineteenth century and the current Chinese lack of enthusiasm to meet US IPR demands represent rational choices. However, as cost-benefit considerations change institutional transitions are possible. We predict that to the same extent the United States voluntarily agreed to strengthen IPR protection when its economy became sufficiently innovation-driven, China will similarly improve its IPR protection.

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