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Coopetition and coordinated investment: protecting Japanese video games' intellectual property rights

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  • Kenichi Ohkita
  • Mahito Okura

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This paper analyses coopetitive strategies pursued by game software firms faced with the problem of intellectual property rights violation. The most important finding is that although software firms have an incentive to invest in protecting their intellectual property rights, the amount invested without coopetition is lower than optimal. In other words, the situation where software firms cooperate by choosing the amount they invest but compete with quantities is desirable, but this cannot be realised if software firms have the option to voluntarily choose the amount they invest. On this basis, associations which game software firms join in exchange for a membership fee are useful as a mechanism to set an industry standard for investment and to cooperatively make efforts against illegal game software distributors.

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  • Kenichi Ohkita & Mahito Okura, 2014. "Coopetition and coordinated investment: protecting Japanese video games' intellectual property rights," International Journal of Business Environment, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(1), pages 92-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbenv:v:6:y:2014:i:1:p:92-105
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    1. Chiambaretto, Paul & Massé, David & Mirc, Nicola, 2019. "“All for One and One for All?” - Knowledge broker roles in managing tensions of internal coopetition: The Ubisoft case," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(3), pages 584-600.
    2. Patrycja Klimas & Ali Ashraf Ahmadian & Morteza Soltani & Meisam Shahbazi & Ali Hamidizadeh, 2023. "Coopetition, Where Do You Come From? Identification, Categorization, and Configuration of Theoretical Roots of Coopetition," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(1), pages 21582440221, January.
    3. Paul Chiambaretto & David Massé & Nicola Mirc, 2019. "“All for One and One for All?” - Knowledge broker roles in managing tensions of internal coopetition: The Ubisoft case," Post-Print hal-02104540, HAL.

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