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Management governance and intellectual property: electronic publishing in the UK.

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posted on 2023-06-08, 09:29 authored by Puay Tang, Nick Von Tunzelmann
Intellectual property issues have been formulated mostly in terms of legal and regulatory aspects. In the case of electronic publishing, as with a number of other technology-based industries, there has been concern on the part of government and international bodies to tighten intellectual property rights (IPRs). On the basis of a survey of smaller electronic publishing firms in the UK, we find that such tightening of IPRs has little support from them. Instead, they voice concern that intensified regulation, whatever it gains for them in revenues, could alter the whole structure of the industry in ways very unfavourable to them. The survey reveals that their main concerns are, instead, directed at the kind of issues portrayed in the recent literature on "dynamic capabilities". In this literature, the extent of replicability is central to the provision of IPRs. We find that policy-makers see electronic publishing as an instance of 'easy replicability', thus warranting tougher IPRs, whereas the industry itself sees replicability as considerably harder, because of dependence on internal capabilities generated within firms. Changes in governance need to relate more closely to management capabilities.

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  • Published

Journal

Journal of Management and Governance

ISSN

13853457

Publisher

Journal of Management and Governance

Issue

4

Volume

4

Page range

299-318

ISBN

1385-3457

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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