We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a large sample of Swiss firms. We find that better appropriability conditions at the industry level raise the number of competitors. However, conditional on the given...

This paper argues that the 'structurational tradition' within interpretive information systems has revealed some useful aspects of the organizational implementation and use of ICT, but that usually this has been achieved at the expense of an intuitively convincing account of human motivation....

We welcome the increased emphasis on practice-based theories of knowing as an alternative to the more representational, knowledge-as-object approaches which have characterised many organizational attempts at 'knowledge management' to date. Building on the findings of a short empirical study into...

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a large sample of Swiss firms. We find that better appropriability conditions at the industry level raise the number of competitors. However, conditional on the given industry...

1. Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Rights -- 2. Protection Strategies -- 3. Evaluating and Valuing Patents -- 4. Successful Practices in Commercializing Patents -- 5. Organizing Patent Management -- 6. Patent Management by Industry -- 7. Patent Management in New Technology Environments --...