Protection without patents: How firms in china earn rents from innovation by 'factual' protection
|
fulltext etc.
|
no fulltext attached
|
|
versione breve
|
In this contribution we analyse how the managers of foreign firms in
China craft strategies to protect their intellectual property rights
(IPR). We show that a 'modernist' perspective would predict IPR
protection by patents, and we show why China's formal legal system
is not capa-ble to provide effective IPR protection. This
contradiction leads to our assumption that man-agers have crafted
'factual' strategies to protect their IPR without using the formal
legal sys-tem. From our analysis of 13 in-depth case studies, we
find that managers have indeed crafted such 'factual' strategies by
their interaction with the societal context of China.
We also find that only a 'micro' perspective on strategy could have
detected this causal pat-tern, whereas a 'modernist' perspective
would have led to erroneous conclusions. The societal context is
identified as an important causal factor that determines the way
managers craft strategy. We also find that the societal context
makes them undergo a process of continual learning that strengthens
their firms' competitive positions within and outside this societal
context. These findings have important implications for future
theory development and pro-vide interesting insights for industry
managers.
|
| |
|
|
tipo
|
papier de conférence (English)
|
| |
|
|
parole chiave
|
Intellectual property rights, appropriability regime, patents, strategy as practice, international management
|
| |
|
|
nome della conferenza
|
Academy of Management 2007 Conference (Philadelphia)
|
|
data della conferenza
|
5-8-2007
|
|
editore dei proceedings
|
AOM 2007 meeting proceedings
|
|
review
|
double-blind review
|
| |
|
|
citation
|
Keupp, M. M. (2007). Protection without patents: How firms in china
earn rents from innovation by 'factual' protection. In AOM 2007
meeting proceedings.
|
| |
|
