the law of prohibition of unfair competition prohibits any deed or action which is against the normal competition in the market. before emergence of special laws for protection of intellectual property rights, including trademarks, such right could be protected either by tort law claims or law of unfair competition. however, the law of prohibition of unfair competition covers a wider area than ...

evaluating the impact of organizational factors andmanagement of deviant workplace behavior is an important issue. it helpsto explain the situation to senior managers in order to plan and makedecision to prevent or mitigate such a behavior. this study evaluates theimpact of organizational factors and management (unfair laws,organizational culture, compensation/ remuneration structure, negative ...

When talking about unfair competition, business ethics has to be involved, which means to judge whether the competition is fair or not is very much ethical debate. And its connotation is also evolving along with the development of social economy, so in this sense, defining “fair competition” or “unfair competition” is very difficult. Therefore, whether it is related to international conventions...

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic industry. The econometric results show that USDOC actions lead to significantly higher AD margins for ...

The controversial provisions in the European Union’s Database Directive have created considerable uncertainty for commercial producers of databases, while recent case law has emasculated much of the Directive. However, researchers and academics must still work in a restrictive copyright environment within Europe. This paper reviews the Directive in the light of two recent UK reports that sugges...