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Abstract | ||
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Software piracy is a problem for the software industry. An estimated world-wide piracy rate of 35%, representing approximately a $31 billion dollar loss in 2004 was reported by the second annual Business Software Alliance (BSA) and International Data Corporation (IDC) piracy study. This high rate shows piracy to be a significant global problem. Both BSA and the Software and Information Industry Association consider the impact of piracy to be a critical issue and have established web links to allow anonymous reporting of software piracy. Deterrents have been welcomed by software producers and others. Equity theory offers a possible explanation of software piracy behavior but no models have been shown to link equity constructs as having a direct influence on software piracy. We investigated the use of equity theory (fairness) as a deterrent to software piracy. Our results identified equity components that significantly influenced equity in the context of software piracy and further indicated that equity significantly influenced software piracy. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1016/j.im.2007.05.002 | Information & Management |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
piracy study,annual business software alliance,equity perception,it ethics,software industry,equity component,ethical behavior,da0101,software producer,software piracy behavior,estimated world-wide piracy rate,equity theory,equity construct,software piracy,piracy,ethics,aa0102,aa0701,aa03,bd0104.01,bb0103 | Corporation,Economics,Business software,Advertising,Equity theory,Software,Equity (finance),Marketing,Software development,Liberian dollar,Information industry | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
44 | 5 | Information & Management |
Citations | PageRank | References |
19 | 0.82 | 13 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| David E. Douglas | 1 | 73 | 7.86 |
| Timothy Paul Cronan | 2 | 333 | 26.61 |
| James D. Behel | 3 | 19 | 0.82 |