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Reference
Title: | Organizational Commitment and Ethical Behavior: An Empirical Study of Information System Professionals |
Author: | Effy Oz [Penn State University] |
Source: | Journal of Business Ethics 34, no. 2: 137-142 |
Year: | 2001 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Piracy |
Focus: | Software |
Country/Territory: | United States of America |
Objective: | To examine organisational commitment and ethical behaviour of Information System professionals. |
Sample: | 321 full-time employees taking evening classes at a university (71 of them Information System professionals) |
Methodology: | Voluntary and anonymous questionnaire distributed in class |
Main Findings
Information System professionals are more likely to pirate software than other professionals. However, they are more committed to their organisations than the other professionals surveyed.
[Date Added: Aug 12, 2008 ]