Understanding differences in ethical beliefs and behaviors toward software copying: the effects of organization culture

摘要

Unauthorized software copying is believed to be widespread in many organizations today.The annual losses to the software vendors rom software piracy are estimated in the billions of dollars.From the perspective of manaers in organizations,unauthorized software copying means the threat of costly litigation on the one hand,balanced against the reduced expense for additional software if unauthorized copies are used.The incdividual computer user,however,ultimately makes the decision whether or not to attempet to copy protected software.It may be possible to exercise more informed contrl over software copying if there were a more ocmplete understanding of the factors that lead to the decision to copy software.