Ethical decision making in software piracy: Initial development and test of a four-component model

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 167-180

  Moores, Trevor T ^a   Chang, Jerry Cha Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Ethical decision making; Ethical scenarios; Ethics; Gender; Intellectual property rights; Moral reasoning; Morality; Software piracy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGE; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHICAL SCENARIOS; ETHICS; GENDER; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; MORAL REASONING; MORALITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33845728874     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148722     Document Type: Article

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