This study attempts to find the interplay of cultural factors along with the technological and socioeconomic factors with regard to global diffusion of e-commerce. Many of the past studies on e-commerce diffusion have focused mainly on technological factors, very few studies have considered the...

Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...

Despite the emphasis of international IP treaties, such as the TRIPS Agreement, on common minimum IP standards, considerable diversity exists among developing countries regarding the nature and scope of IP standards, approaches to administration and enforcement, and the responsiveness of...

WIPO and the international unions it administers are essentially and designedly intergovernmental in character, a defining quality that flows through WIPO's governance structure and processes. Yet non-governmental actors – other IGOs and especially international and national NGOs – have at...

This paper analyses the rise of the new order of regulatory capitalism. It starts with an analytical and historical analysis of the relations between capitalism and regulation, and suggests that change in the governance of capitalist economy is best captured by reference to five dimensions: (a)...

Political scientists, sociologists, and economists have all sought to analyze the spread of economic and political liberalism across countries in recent decades. This article documents this diffusion of liberal policies and politics and proposes four distinct theories to explain how the prior...