DEVELOPING A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF SOFTWARE PIRACY BEHAVIOR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 209-222

  Peace, A Graham ^a   Galletta, Dennis F ^b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY; INDUSTRY GROUPS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REFERENCE DISCIPLINE; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 85138235365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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