Software piracy: an analysis of protection strategies
Management Science
Evaluating ethical decision making and computer use
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Issues and opinion on structural equation modeling
MIS Quarterly
Ethics and information systems: the corporate domain
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Communications of the ACM
International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts
Information Systems Research
Morality and Computers: Attitudes and Differences in Judgments
Information Systems Research
Testing an ethical decision-making theory: the case of softlifting
Journal of Management Information Systems
Preventive and deterrent controls for software piracy
Journal of Management Information Systems
To purchase or to pirate software: an empirical study
Journal of Management Information Systems
Software Piracy in the Workplace: A Model and Empirical Test
Journal of Management Information Systems
Application of complex adaptive systems to pricing of reproducible information goods
Decision Support Systems
Parameters for Software Piracy Research
The Information Society
The Glitch in On-line Advertising: A Study of Click Fraud in Pay-Per-Click Advertising Programs
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
The Glitch in On-line Advertising: A Study of Click Fraud in Pay-Per-Click Advertising Programs
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Factors that influence software piracy: a view from Germany
Communications of the ACM
Journal of Management Information Systems
How to build an appropriate information ethics code for enterprises in Chinese cultural society
Computers in Human Behavior
The impacts of piracy and supply chain contracts on digital music channel performance
Decision Support Systems
Towards a conceptual model of software piracy: from students perspective
International Journal of Business Information Systems
International Journal of Technoethics
Business intelligence success: The roles of BI capabilities and decision environments
Information and Management
Examining Digital Piracy: Self-Control, Punishment, and Self-Efficacy
Information Resources Management Journal
Journal of Global Information Management
Consumer Piracy Risk: Conceptualization and Measurement in Music Sharing
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Same Coin, Different Sides: Differential Impact of Social Learning on Two Facets of Music Piracy
Journal of Management Information Systems
A structured review of IS research on gender and IT
Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
The role of theory in gender and information systems research
Information and Organization
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Software piracy costs the software industry billions of dollars each year. To better understand piracy, we propose a model of ethical decision making that is an adaptation of the four-component model of morality. This model defines four internal processes that result in external moral behavior: recognition, judgment, intention, and behavior. We test our model with a sample of Information Systems students in Hong Kong who provided measures of self-reported behavior regarding levels of buying and using pirated software. Using partial least squares, we investigated the causal pathways of the model and the effects of age and gender. We find that use is determined by buying, buying is determined by intention, and intention is determined by judgment. Although respondents recognized software piracy as an infringement of intellectual property rights, this fact did not affect their judgment of the morality of the act. Significant differences are also found in the ethical decision-making process based on age but only limited differences based on gender. The implications of these results, including the development of a professional ethics program, are discussed.