This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...

Enterprise Social Software versprechen, Kommunikation im Unternehmen nicht nur effizienter, sondern auch demokratischer zu gestalten. Doch welche Chancen bieten diese Systeme tatsächlich für die Partizipation im Unternehmen? Welche Herausforderungen stellen sich? Welche Handlungsoptionen...

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) institutions. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 99 countries for the period 1994-2010 and the Generalised Method of Moments. The...