TY - GEN
T1 - Social desirability bias in software piracy research
T2 - 12th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2016
AU - Gergely, Marton
AU - Srinivasan Chino Rao, V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/3/16
Y1 - 2017/3/16
N2 - Social desirability bias (SDB) is the under-or over-reporting of behaviors by a respondent in order to appear more acceptable, or gain the approval of others. The presence of SDB in studies of software piracy behavior has been suspected for long. However, few studies have explicitly addressed this issue in detail. In the current article, results from a set of pilot studies are reported. These pilot studies compare software piracy behavior in experimental studies to responses of intentions to pirate in paper-based scenarios, under equivalent conditions. The comparisons provide valuable preliminary insights into the understanding of SDB in software piracy, and suggest the need to account for SDB research in software piracy studies.
AB - Social desirability bias (SDB) is the under-or over-reporting of behaviors by a respondent in order to appear more acceptable, or gain the approval of others. The presence of SDB in studies of software piracy behavior has been suspected for long. However, few studies have explicitly addressed this issue in detail. In the current article, results from a set of pilot studies are reported. These pilot studies compare software piracy behavior in experimental studies to responses of intentions to pirate in paper-based scenarios, under equivalent conditions. The comparisons provide valuable preliminary insights into the understanding of SDB in software piracy, and suggest the need to account for SDB research in software piracy studies.
KW - Software piracy
KW - information system ethics
KW - social desirability bias
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U2 - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2016.7880052
DO - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2016.7880052
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85017636407
T3 - Proceedings of the 2016 12th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2016
BT - Proceedings of the 2016 12th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 28 November 2016 through 29 November 2016
ER -