Ownership and Appropriation

Appropriation Infrastructure: Mediating Appropriation and Production Work

End User Development offers technological flexibility to encourage the appropriation of software applications within specific contexts of use. Appropriation needs to be understood as a phenomenon of many collaborative and creative activities. To support appropriation, we propose integrating communication infrastructure into software application that follows an“easy-to-collaborate”-principle. Su...

Tax Avoidance and Institutional Ownership: Active vs. Passive Ownership

Income tax is one of the most important costs of companies and it is usually considered as a cost that should not be paid. One of the most noticeable and influential factors in tax avoidance is corporate ownership structure. With an emphasis on institutional ownership and its types in this paper, it is attempted to measure the effect of this ownership and its types on corporate tax avoidance. F...

Appropriation and Intellectual Property

A standard rationale for intellectual property is that by awarding a monopoly to innovators the government increases the amount of social surplus appropriated from invention, thereby improving efficiency. Indeed, if an inventor can appropriate the full surplus from his invention the first best will be obtained. We observe that while full appropriation is sufficient for efficiency, it is not nec...

Value Appropriation and Competition Revisited

One of the foundational questions underlying strategy research relates to identifying characteristics of economic situations that enable value appropriation by firms. Recently, MacDonald & Ryall (2004) presented a coalition game based framework within which the mechanism of value appropriation in competitive situations can be formally modeled and analyzed. They subsequently use their formulatio...

Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation