Organizational software piracy: an empirical assessment

Mishra, Alok; Akman, İbrahim; Yazici, Ali

doi:10.1080/01449290500483577

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“…Nevertheless, most of the studies were conducted in North America, followed by Asia-Pacific. Studies in the latter accounted for the majority of the studies conducted in developing regions (Mishra, Akman, & Yazici, 2007). As a result, we checked empirical studies to find the geographical regions in which their authors collected primary or secondary data.…”

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“…We can expect significant researcher interest in the individual level focus on the role of the consumer given piracy's behavioral component and the role that individuals play. However, the low count of organizational-level studies (most of which are analysis/non-empirical papers) lends support to the calls for research that indicate that we need to do more to understand how organizations in their role as consumers avoid or commit piracy (Mishra et al, 2007;.…”

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Software Piracy Research: A Cross Disciplinary Longitudinal Literature Survey

Chavarria¹,

Andoh‐Baidoo²,

Midha³

et al. 2016

CAIS

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Few studies have synthesized accumulated scholarly knowledge on software piracy across the disciplines that study this phenomenon. We contribute to understanding the intellectual and social development on software piracy by performing a cross-disciplinary literature search. We used 17 research questions to address five specific areas of inquiry on software piracy research: 1) what makes up software piracy's intellectual substance?, 2) do theoretical contributions on software piracy suggest a cross-disciplinary research community on the topic?, 3) what changes have occurred in software piracy research across the seven measured periods?, 4) what are the top IS journals' publishing patterns on software piracy research?, and 5) who has contributed to software piracy research? To address these questions, we classified 179 software research studies. We found that: 1) over 50 percent of the studies focused on an individual level of analysis, 2) most papers examined software piracy in North America and Asia Pacific regions, although other regions also have major problems, and 3) the distribution of theoretical and methodological contributions show a pattern of leaning towards positivism. The findings point to several research opportunities including expanding research: 1) at organizational levels with particular emphasis on organizations' role as consumers and or intermediaries, 2) in Latin America and Africa, which are areas with high incidence of software piracy, and 3) on approaches beyond positivism.We present a detailed theoretical approach to our review below. First, however, we demonstrate precisely what ethical and legal problems "piracy" refers to in the context of software and business.

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Section: Geographical Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rq14 What Levels Of Analysis Have Scholars Used?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Piracy Research: A Cross Disciplinary Longitudinal Literature Survey

Chavarria¹,

Andoh‐Baidoo²,

Midha³

et al. 2016

CAIS

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“…Another study by Boyce (2011) find that people with Internet may or may not use illegal software, while the internet's speed determines the amount of information that can be retrieved at the same time as higher Internet speeds increase the ease to obtain both legal and illegal software. Use of pirated software also extends to IT professions that have more knowledge on how to pirate and put this software into its organizations, the main reason for this is related to economical and personal attitudes (Mishra et al 2007). Education combined with Access to information can have an important effect on the use of pirated software.…”

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Determinants of worldwide software piracy losses

Gomes

Cerqueira

Alçada-Almeida

2015

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Abstract. This paper studies the determinants of software piracy losses along five major macroeconomic dimensions: Technological, Educational, Institutional, Access to Information and Labor force. The study was conducted based on a large dataset available from 1995 to 2010 and comprising 81 countries. As for the Technological dimension, more patents by residents increases piracy losses while the effect of R&D is the opposite (decreases piracy losses). In terms of the Educational dimension, the results show that more spending on education increase the piracy losses but, at the same time, more schooling years have the contrary effect. Concerning the Institutional dimension, nations with less corruption have lower piracy levels. Regarding the Access to Information, it seems that access to Internet diminishes the losses while the share of Internet broadband subscriptions has no effect. The results also show that, regarding the Labor dimension, employment in services has a deterrent effect while labor force with higher education and youth unemployment increases piracy losses.

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“…Brunei (Rahim et al, 2001), China (Wang et al, 2005), Finland (Siponen and Vartianen, 2005), Hong Kong (Moores and Dhillon, 2000), Saudi Arabia (Al-Jabri and Abdul-Gader, 1997), Singapore (Thong and Yap, 1998), Thailand (Kini et al, 2003), and Turkey (Mishra et al, 2007)), there are very few direct cross-nation comparison studies. Swinyard et al (1990) examined the influence of cultural conceptions of morality on software piracy behaviour in a Singaporean and a US sample.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first focus has been to understand the individual determinants of software piracy by exploring how software piracy varies with demographic factors such as age, and gender, socioeconomic status and frequency of computer use on software piracy intentions and behaviour (Sims, Cheng and Teegen, 1996;Rahim et al, 2000;Hinduja, 2003). The second focus has been to consider the impact of social contextual variables including interpersonal interactions (Glass and Wood, 1996;Tang and Farn 2005), industry sector (Mishra, Akman and Yazici, 2007), organisation culture (Lending and Slaughter 1999) and national culture and legal factors (Al-Jabri and Abdul Gader, 1997;Husted, 2000;Robertson, Gilley, Crittenden and Crittenden, 2008).…”

Section: Software Piracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing software piracy in South Africa and Zambia using social cognitive theory

Thatcher

Matthews

2014

AJOBE

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This study examines cross-national differences in relation to software piracy between a Zambian and a South Africa student sample on components of Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory. The sample was selected based on the vastly different software piracy rates between Zambia (82%) and South Africa (35%) and the fact that software piracy rates are higher amongst student groups. The questionnaire was composed of previously developed scales measuring attitudes, social norms, intentions, incentives, deterrents, self-efficacy, and moral disengagement within the context of software piracy. The sample was gathered from one University in Zambia (N = 69) and one in South Africa (N = 71) in the students' final and penultimate years of study. Statistical differences were found between the two samples on the attitudes and social norms scales, with the South African sample having more positive attitudes and more favourable social norms towards software piracy than the Zambian sample. In terms of the theoretical model, attitudes, social norms and self-efficacy predicted software piracy intentions in both samples.

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Organizational software piracy: an empirical assessment

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Software Piracy Research: A Cross Disciplinary Longitudinal Literature Survey

Software Piracy Research: A Cross Disciplinary Longitudinal Literature Survey

Determinants of worldwide software piracy losses

Comparing software piracy in South Africa and Zambia using social cognitive theory

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