... when using the Internet and how to eliminate or reduce that risk. Article type: Theoretical with worked example. Keywords: Trade secrets, Legislation, Internet, Strategy, International law. Content Indicators: Research Implications** Practice Implications** Originality** Readability** Management Decision Volume 41 Number 1 2003 pp. 43-47 Copyright (c) MCB University Press ISSN 0025-1747 Introduction Trade secret protection outside the USA is minimal, undeveloped but improving. Substantive and procedural laws vary from country to country, with theories of recovery for wrongful disclosure or misuse ranging from breach of contract to violation of confidentiality laws. Many countries have enacted trade secrets protection laws but enforcement is lacking (MacLaren, 1993). Trade secret law is well developed in the USA, the UK and in most jurisdictions that have the common law system. In civil law jurisdictions, as in most of continental Europe, there are reasonably comprehensive rules governing confidential information. In Asia, since the latter part of the 1980s, international pressure has brought major changes in ...

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