What motivates software crackers?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-201

  Goode, Sigi ^a,b   Cruise, Sam ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian National Centre for Information Systems Research (NCISR)   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neutralisation; Personal motivation; Social justification; Software piracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646542629     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-005-4709-9     Document Type: Article

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