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Reference
Title: | Attitude toward ethical behavior in computer use: a shifting model |
Author: | Lori N K Leonard [University of Tulsa], Timothy Paul Cronan [University of Arkansas] |
Source: | Industrial Management & Data Systems 105, no. 9: 1150-1171 |
Year: | 2005 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Piracy |
Focus: | Software |
Country/Territory: | United States of America |
Objective: | To determine whether environmental factors, moral obligation and awareness of consequences influence an individual's attitude towards ethical behaviour with regards to information systems. |
Sample: | 422 students in computing classes at a Midwestern university |
Methodology: | Survey containing five computing cases |
Main Findings
Moral obligation and consequences were found to influence attitudes consistently. Attitude influences depend on the behaviour in question and on the gender of the individual.
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