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01.02.2010 | Research Article

Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights in Weak Appropriability Regimes

The Case of de Facto Protection Strategies in China

verfasst von: Ass. Prof. Marcus M. Keupp, PhD Cand. Angela Beckenbauer, Prof. Oliver Gassmann

Erschienen in: Management International Review | Ausgabe 1/2010

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Many emerging economies are characterised by weak appropriability systems and absent legal systems to punish imitators. This places foreign firms’ intellectual property rights at risk, because existing appropriation methods, such as patents or secrecy, cannot function effectively. This concern especially applies to China, the empirical context of this article. Such adverse conditions force managers to devise new strategies to safeguard their firms’ intellectual property rights. Yet no evidence describes whether strategies exist, which forms they take, how they have evolved or how they get implemented.
This article addresses this knowledge gap and explores strategies that managers have developed to achieve de facto protection, despite China’s weak appropriability system. The analysis systematically explores 13 cases of foreign firms with wholly owned subsidiaries in China.
The findings confirm that de facto strategies exist, describe how they work and detail how they were achieved. The findings suggest implications for both managers and academics.

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We use the term intellectual property rights (IPR) in accordance with the definition of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO 2005): a construct that covers both copyrights and industrial property. Copyrights result from literary, artistic, and scientific work; industrial property rights result from inventions, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, commercial names and designations and protect against unfair competition.

We thank an anonymous reviewer for drawing our attention to this paradox.

We thank an anonymous reviewer for this suggestion.

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Titel: Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights in Weak Appropriability Regimes
The Case of de Facto Protection Strategies in China
verfasst von: Ass. Prof. Marcus M. Keupp
PhD Cand. Angela Beckenbauer
Prof. Oliver Gassmann
Publikationsdatum: 01.02.2010
Verlag: SP Gabler Verlag
Erschienen in: Management International Review / Ausgabe 1/2010
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Elektronische ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-009-0020-9

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