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Authors: Rodolphe Durand,Jean-Philippe Vergne

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

Rodolphe Durand
is the GDF-Suez Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris where he chairs the Strategy department. Recently, he was Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School (2012) and Cambridge University, and Visiting Professor at New York University (2011). His work on the social underpinnings of competitive advantage has received international awards including the R. Scott Award (American Sociological Association, 2005) and the European Academy of Management/Imagination Lab Award for innovative scholarship (2010).

Jean-Philippe Vergne
is a social scientist interested in socially contested organizations. He researches this topic in the context of pirate organizations as well as in today’s global arms industry. His work has received several academic distinctions, including the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award. JP is currently a professor of strategy and organization at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University (Canada).

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1
Introduction
2
What Is Piracy?
3
The Pirate Organization and Territorial Expansion, or Why Capitalists Shouldn’t Hate the State
4
Pirate or Corsair?
5
What Is the Pirate Organization?
6
Where It All Began: The Pirate Organization on the High Seas
7
Why Piracy Is Not Just About Economics
8
The Pirate Organization on the Airwaves
9
The Pirate Organization and the Monopolist
10
The Pirate Organization in Cyberspace
11
Hacking Property Rights
12
Is the Pirate Organization a Fair Competitor?
13
The Pirate Organization and the Building Blocks of Life
14
The Future of the Capitalist State
15
Conclusion: To the Fringes and Back

Notes

Bibliography

About the Authors

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