A behavioral model of digital music piracy

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-105

  Gopal, Ram D ^a   Sanders, G Lawrence ^b   Bhattacharjee, Sudip ^a   Agrawal, Manish ^b   Wagner, Suzanne C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b 325 Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

^c NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Digital music; Economics; Ethics; Intellectual property; Piracy; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042571365     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327744joce1402_01     Document Type: Article

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