TY - GEN
T1 - Schools of thought in software piracy research
AU - Gergely, Marton
AU - Srinivasan Rao, V.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The unauthorized copying of computer programs, referred to as software piracy, continues to be a major threat to the security of the digital assets of software publishers. Software piracy has received much attention from researchers, often from different perspectives, or schools of thought. As a first step, we have reviewed the articles on software piracy in Information Systems journals, classified them into major schools of thought, and summarized the findings of each school. We briefly show that a comparison of findings from multiple schools of thought can facilitate triangulation of results. Our comparison also points to the need for further clarification of some issues. In future work, we will include articles published in journals of other disciplines, and develop an integrated view of the software piracy phenomenon to support our efforts to propose a holistic approach to reduce software piracy.
AB - The unauthorized copying of computer programs, referred to as software piracy, continues to be a major threat to the security of the digital assets of software publishers. Software piracy has received much attention from researchers, often from different perspectives, or schools of thought. As a first step, we have reviewed the articles on software piracy in Information Systems journals, classified them into major schools of thought, and summarized the findings of each school. We briefly show that a comparison of findings from multiple schools of thought can facilitate triangulation of results. Our comparison also points to the need for further clarification of some issues. In future work, we will include articles published in journals of other disciplines, and develop an integrated view of the software piracy phenomenon to support our efforts to propose a holistic approach to reduce software piracy.
KW - Intellectual property theft
KW - Software piracy
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893230824
SN - 9781629933948
T3 - 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
SP - 2928
EP - 2936
BT - 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World
T2 - 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013
Y2 - 15 August 2013 through 17 August 2013
ER -