 Re-conceptualizing intellectual property regimes in international business research: Foreign-friendliness paradoxes facing MNCs in ChinaPrud’homme, Dan Journal of World Business, 2019, vol. 54, issue 4, 399-419 Abstract: This article seeks to better explain the complex challenges that intellectual property (IP) regimes pose to foreign multinational corporations (MNCs). It draws on in-depth research into the appropriability and entrepreneurial risks as well as transaction costs that China’s IP regime has posed to foreign MNCs to date, and forecasts how these risks and costs may evolve in the future. I find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, IP regimes are not always best conceptualized as either “weak” or “strong”. Instead, I illustrate that complex “foreign-friendliness paradoxes” are possible in IP regimes, show how they evolve, and explain them with a more robust framework than previously available. These findings help re-conceptualize IP regimes in IB research. Keywords: Intellectual property regimes; Risk; Transaction costs; China; Foreign-friendliness paradoxes; International business (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:worbus:v:54:y:2019:i:4:p:399-419 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2019.02.002 Access Statistics for this article Journal of World Business is currently edited by David Collings and Jonathan Doh More articles in Journal of World Business from Elsevier |
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