Strategic analysis of corporate software piracy prevention and detection

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 223-252

  Mishra, Birendra K ^a   Raghu, T S ^b   Prasad, Ashutosh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Intellectual property; IT infrastructure; Piracy audit; Software piracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644551591     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327744joce1503_3     Document Type: Review

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