Debates on globalization are, quite often, concerned with the tensions between world market and nation-state. It might give a much more realistic picture to include, as a third pole, the global companies with their internal organizational structures, which incorporate quite important aspects of...

Of the diverse factors motivating technological change, one factor that has received increasing attention in the recent past has been the protection of intellectual property rights. Given fairly recent changes in the international policy ethos where a regime of stronger intellectual property...