{"title":"The importance of intellectual property protection to the American research-intensive pharmaceutical industry","authors":"Gerald J. Mossinghoff , Thomas Bombelles","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90005-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90005-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The American research-intensive pharmaceutical industry is the world's most successful and competitive and one of the crown jewels of the U.S. industrial base. Among the principal reasons for its success is an unparalleled commitment to research and development, which in turn yields an impressive array of advanced biomedical therapies. Intellectual property protection is a cornerstone of the industry's existence. Like other industries, such as computer software and audio/video recordings, a major portion of the industry's cost of production is incurred in the development stage, rendering unauthorized copying both easy and profitable. The GATT Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Agreement have set high standards for pharmaceutical and other industries' intellectual property protection. Unfortunately, there will be delays until numerous countries implement these standards. These delays harm both the industry worldwide and individual countries where patent protection would attract investment and stimulate research and development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"31 1","pages":"Pages 38-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90005-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55832828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation and intellectual property protection:","authors":"Emery Simon","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90004-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90004-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Digital commerce does not yet exist in a widely available, commercially viable form. Substantial amounts of innovation will be required to improve and customize existing technology and to create necessary new technologies for the digital marketplace. Recent months have witnessed the establishment of a broad array of new enterprises, joint ventures and business alliances aimed at preparing for a digital future. Driven by consumer demand, this trend will accelerate over the coming years. The author points out that a number of factors will be critical, however, in order for electronically harnessed information to become an established norm. For the software industry, the most important factor is strong protection of intellectual property rights. This is essential to the promotion and development of new applications and services. The author views the emergence of a digital marketplace as dependent on the combined advancements in technological safeguards and encryption techniques, and strong national and international legal safeguards for copyrighted materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"31 1","pages":"Pages 30-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90004-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55832697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protecting intellectual property: Strategies and recommendations to deter counterfeiting and brand piracy in global markets","authors":"Clifford J. Shultz II, Bill Saporito","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90003-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90003-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many provisions articulated in the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements are intended to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). The authors contend that despite these provisions IP pi racy, especially counterfeiting, will continue to be rampant in the foreseeable future. The authors discuss the factors that will continue to make IP piracy problematic and offer proactive solutions to companies interested in protecting IPR should they not have the fullest confidence in the enforcement mechanisms provided by the WTO.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"31 1","pages":"Pages 18-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90003-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55832663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of intellectual property rights on foreign direct investment","authors":"Belay Seyoum","doi":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90006-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90006-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While foreign direct investment (FDI) has been discussed extensively, little research has been undertaken on the nature and direction of the relationship between intellectual property rights protection and FDI. The author uses empirical findings based on a study of 27 countries to support the propositions that the level of intellectual property rights protection is a strong determinant of inward investment and that intellectual property rights have a greater impact on inward investment than many economic policy variables among certain country groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"31 1","pages":"Pages 50-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0022-5428(96)90006-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55832884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The French film industry: A crisis of art and commerce","authors":"Reed Martin","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90001-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90001-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Three decades after “New Wave” directors JeanLuc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer captivated the world with a revolutionary style and an uncompromising vision, the French film industry is in a state of crisis. No longer a dominant cinematic force even in its own country, the proud inventors of filmed entertainment sit aghast as Hollywood siphons millions of francs out of its citizens' pockets and lures away the country's promising young talent. At a time when bold new American directors like Quentin Tarantino, Larry Clark and Tom DiCillo are pushing French film out of the art houses where it once reigned, the audience for foreign language features in the United States is graying and not being replenished. Unless French filmmakers switch reels and begin to make movies that the global marketplace demands, the country that produced classic motion pictures like “L'Année Dernière à Marienbad,” “Jules et Jim” and “Jean de Florette” will become just another ancillary market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 4","pages":"Pages 6-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90001-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Action forums: How general electric and other firms have learned to make better decisions, faster","authors":"John O. Whitney , E.Kirby Warren","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90002-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90002-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As management consultants at GE and other global companies, the authors found that many of the common impediments to good decisions are removed when decision makers and information sources are in the same room at the same time. Action forums are broadly inclusive corporate meetings that involve key players from management, the factory floor and even outside suppliers and customers. The authors maintain that action forums reduce opportunities for vacillation and intrafirm political maneuvering, two major obstacles to swift decision-making in many organizations. Thus, they achieve better decisions, faster; ensure the commitment of those who must implement decisions; and make full use of the power, perspective and wisdom of those at the top of an organization. The results of these experimental forums suggest an important area for further research. While it is difficult to offer precise estimates of the increased efficiency of decisionmaking through action forums, the authors report that companies as far away as Japan are now seeking to develop action-forum approaches for their organizations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 4","pages":"Pages 18-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90002-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index volume 30","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90008-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90008-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 4","pages":"Pages 99-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90008-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137440187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The return of 7-eleven… from Japan: The vanguard program","authors":"Masaaki Kotabe","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90006-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90006-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines how Ito-Yokado Co. Ltd. of Japan, the long-time licensee of the Southland Corporation's 7-Eleven store chain, has come back to the United States to acquire its parent company and has begun to implement the Japanese firm's management techniques at 7-Eleven stores in the United States. While we have been fully aware of the Japanese competitive juggernaut in the consumer durable products industry, we rarely hear about it in services, let alone in retailing. As the Japanese licensee's takeover of the American convenience-store parent company suggests, the next generation of Japanese competition may come unexpectedly from service sectors such as retail business.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 4","pages":"Pages 70-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90006-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British privatization: Evaluating the results","authors":"Alan N. Miller","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90007-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90007-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The 24 studies reviewed here reveal that nine of the 13 primary objectives of the U.K.'s privatization program have substantially been achieved. Privatization has reduced the size and scope of government, reduced political interference in management decisions, freed government funds so they can be used in sectors of the economy other than state-owned businesses, created a free market economy, promoted domestic investment, benefited the economy through higher returns on capital invested in privatized businesses, generated new sources of tax revenue, broadened domestic equity ownership and promoted equity ownership among employees of privatized businesses. Most of the research reviewed concludes that privatization has reduced the government's budget deficit; provided consumers with improved service, better quality, more choices, new products and lower prices; and improved the efficiency and performance of privatized firms. Finally, most of the studies reviewed report mixed results regarding the privatization program's success at reducing government control of business.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 4","pages":"Pages 82-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90007-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It pays to be green","authors":"Giulio M. Gallarotti","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90004-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90004-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The traditional view in management circles about the relationship between the environment and business can best be summed up as pollution pays, pollution prevention doesn't. Notwithstanding the recent proliferation of literature on the benefits of green management, many managers continue to see environmentally sound strategies as detrimental to the principal goals of profitability, maintaining markets, controlling costs and efficient production.</p><p>Such conclusions about the environmental drag on business are based on mistaken assumptions about the incentives businesses encounter. Stricter government regulation of the environment in developed nations changed the equation. There are also many opportunities for managers to profit from environmentally sound strategies that are independent of public pressures. Together, these two types of incentives serve to turn the traditional vision about the incompatibility between good business and the environment on its head: it is becoming increasingly apparent that, indeed, pollution prevention pays while pollution doesn't.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 4","pages":"Pages 38-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90004-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}