The major findings of this exploratory research are that a firm’s level of market commitment through future investments will increase in strategically important markets, regardless of high consumer complicity to purchase fake goods; that companies will employ additional anti‐counterfeiting...

Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- The global growth of counterfeit trade -- The supply of counterfeit trade: the problem countries -- Modeling the intellectual property rights environment -- The demand for counterfeit trade: consumer complicity -- The use of anti-piracy...

Walk down any main street in Shanghai, Paris or New York and you will see evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. Everyone has seen or heard of fake Prada bags or Omega watches. But how large is the counterfeit market? It appears that the same numbers have been quoted repeatedly in sources...