Business conflict and global politics: The pharmaceutical industry and the global protection of intellectual property rights
Business conflict and global politics: The pharmaceutical industry and the global protection of intellectual property rights
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商业冲突与全球政治：制药业与全球知识产权保护
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2013
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A. Roemer
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A. Roemer
关于企业在全球治理中的作用，大多数现有的研究都将企业视为一个维斯于国家或非政府组织的团体。本文强调，企业界内部的冲突可能是解释政策结果的一个重要因素。借鉴国际关系中的“商业冲突学派”文献，经济社会学中对市场政治的研究，以及管理研究中对企业政治战略的研究，它发展了治理-竞争力关系的概念，以理论化经济竞争如何转化为政治竞争。本文展示了这样一个分析角度如何增加我们对药品知识产权全球治理的理解。它有助于解释不同行为者在特定时间点参与政治的动机及其促进的政策目标。因此，商业冲突和治理-竞争力关系的概念有助于解释全球医药知识产权治理的议程制定过程。
ABSTRACT Most existing studies on the role of business in global governance conceive of business as one group acting vis-à-vis the state or NGOs. This article highlights that conflicts within the business community can be an important factor to explain policy outcomes. Drawing on the ‘business conflict school’ literature from International Relations, studies on the politics of markets developed in Economic Sociology, and work on corporate political strategy undertaken in Management Studies, it develops the concept of the governance-competitiveness nexus to theorize how economic competition translates into political competition. The article demonstrates how such an analytical angle can add to our understanding of the global governance of intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals. It helps explain the motives of different actors to become politically involved at specific points in time and the policy goals they promoted. Thus, the concepts of business conflict and governance-competitiveness nexus help explain the agenda setting process on global pharmaceutical IP governance.