Intellectual property rights are fundamental to how economies organize innovation and steer
the diffusion of knowledge. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up …

Research has rarely studied how innovators conduct knowledge search in response to an
increased risk that their original ideas may be imitated (ie, duplicative imitation threat). We …

Purpose This study disentangles the impact of consumers' adoption of mini-program
channels on social media on their purchase behavior in e-marketplaces from a multichannel …

Existing research on protecting digital assets has primarily focused on reducing the threat of
imitation threat via formal strategies (such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks) and …

The continuous strengthening of intellectual property protection has made the analysis of
music intellectual property framework a research hotspot, and also promoted the integration …

Online innovation communities are an important source of innovation for many
organizations. While contributions to such communities are typically made without financial …

The emergence of derivative works in open-license platforms has sparked inquiries
regarding their impact on original works and the platform as a whole. While it is widely …

Abstract Information intermediaries play an increasingly important role in many markets, with
prior research recognizing them as strategic actors rather than mere passive third parties …