Pirate or buy? the moderating effect of idolatry

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-93

  Wang, Chia chen ^a   Chen, Chin ta ^a   Yang, Shu chen ^b   Farn, Cheng kiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Idolatry; Music piracy; Social identity theory; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450286356     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0027-y     Document Type: Article

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