This paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of opposite copyright lobbies' narratives on scholars' views toward the publishing system. We conduct the empirical analysis by running a large-scale information provision experiment on a representative population of European scholars....

Purpose–The authors attempt to answer the basic questions: How is imitation tied to innovation? This question is addressed in the context of China’s innovation system in the 2000s where Chinese industrial firms simultaneously implement innovation and imitation strategies in their new product...