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    An institution-based view of global IPR history

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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. An institution-based view of global IPR history. Journal of International Business Studies. 48 (7): pp. 893-907.
    Source Title
    Journal of International Business Studies
    DOI
    10.1057/s41267-016-0061-9
    ISSN
    0047-2506
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53505
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Leveraging the use of history to advance international business research, this article focuses on the crucial debate over intellectual property rights (IPR) between the United States and China. Ironically, during the 19th century the United States was not a leading IPR advocate as it is today, but was a leading IPR violator. Developing an institution-based view of IPR history, we identify three underlying theoretical mechanisms that help to explain IPR in the two countries – path dependence, long-term processes, and institutional transitions. We argue that both the US refusal to protect foreign IPR in the 19th century and the current Chinese lack of enthusiasm to meet US IPR demands embody rational responses to their respective situations. However, given long-term processes with intensifying isomorphic pressures, institutional transitions in favor of better IPR protection are quite possible. Finally, going above and beyond these two countries, we draw on the IPR history in over ten other countries to develop a more globally generalizable framework, which in turn contributes to the key question of how history matters.

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