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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE



Forging Global Institutional Homogeneity: Intellectual Property Evolution in Brazil's Software Industry 

Author(s): Artur Eugenio Jacobus, Yeda Swirski de Souza

Citation: Artur Eugenio Jacobus, Yeda Swirski de Souza, (2018)" Forging Global Institutional Homogeneity: Intellectual Property Evolution in Brazil's Software Industry  ," Journal of Management Policy and Practice, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, pp. 56-72

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

​Abstract:

This study analyses to what extent institutional entrepreneurship plays a role in the transformation of a
formal institution such as intellectual property rights. We studied change in Brazilian intellectual
property rights in the 1980’s - 1990’s. We did interviews and document research that were analysed on
their content. The local institutional field, initially protected from external threats by a market reserve
policy, legitimated practices that had been condemned in the global organizational field. We concluded
that multiple and contradictory institutions favoured the emergence of the institutional change and
agency of powerful actors at the centre of the global organizational field.