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Reference
Title: | Organizational software piracy: an empirical assessment |
Author: | Alok Mishra and Ibrahim Akman [Atilim University], Ali Yazici [TOBB University of Economics and Technology] |
Source: | Behaviour & Information Technology 26, no. 5: 437-444 |
Year: | 2007 |
Details
Subject/Type: | Piracy |
Focus: | Software |
Country/Territory: | Türkiye |
Objective: | To investigate the use of pirated software in organisations from government, private and academic sectors in Turkey. |
Sample: | 162 IT managers from different sectors such as government, private, and academic community |
Methodology: | Questionnaire |
Main Findings
Overall, 23% of respondents admitted that pirated software was used in their organisations. Organisational piracy incidence was at 58% in the government sector, 36% in the academic sector, and 6% in the private sector.
The sector affiliation of an organisation (private, public, academic) was found to have an impact on the use of pirated software, on the reasons for using pirated software, and on the Internet’s effect on piracy within the organisation. Sector did not hay any impact on the type of pirated software or on the type of piracy.
Across all organisational sectors, economical reasons and personal attitudes were the most often invoked reasons for pirating software. System and entertainment software was most often copied.
[Date Added: Oct 22, 2008 ]