"Local, Foreign Firms and Supra-National Institutions: The Pace of Intellectual Property Compliance"

We investigate the variation in developing countries’ rate of compliance with global intellectual property standards. Using old and new institutionalism perspectives, we present a co-evolutionary process of institutional change in innovation systems of these countries, where local firms, advanced country multinational enterprises (AMNEs) and supra-national institutions had differential effects on the institutional change process, in terms of...