The Determinants of Digital Piracy Behaviour in Malaysia

K. C. Ling, Mary Lee Siew Cheng, Cham Kai Sin, Alina Yap May Ling, Zhangchun Li
{"title":"The Determinants of Digital Piracy Behaviour in Malaysia","authors":"K. C. Ling, Mary Lee Siew Cheng, Cham Kai Sin, Alina Yap May Ling, Zhangchun Li","doi":"10.5539/ibr.v16n3p1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The advancement of technology has facilitated sustainable and significant development in supporting digitalisation of business operations, including but not limited to electronic commerce, but also resulting in a significant increase in digital crimes, particularly online piracy. Many consumers seek out pirated content and the majority of them do not perceive it as something that could eventually harm the creative industry or perceive it as a wrong practice. Therefore, the problem of online piracy becomes rampant. This research investigates the direct and indirect relationships between deviant peer associations, perceived benefits, attitude towards digital piracy, subjective norms, self-efficacy, digital piracy intention and actual digital piracy behaviour. A total of 450 samples were gathered via an online self-administered questionnaire survey. The data was evaluated by structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). According to the statistical findings, all of the direct and indirect relationships among the seven variables are significantly supported. This study provides theoretical and managerial implications by demonstrating that digital piracy intention has a significant relationship on actual digital piracy behaviour as well as deviant peer associations have a significant relationship on an individual’s attitude towards digital piracy. This study concludes with some limitations and recommendations for the future digital piracy research.","PeriodicalId":13861,"journal":{"name":"International journal of business research","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of business research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v16n3p1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

The advancement of technology has facilitated sustainable and significant development in supporting digitalisation of business operations, including but not limited to electronic commerce, but also resulting in a significant increase in digital crimes, particularly online piracy. Many consumers seek out pirated content and the majority of them do not perceive it as something that could eventually harm the creative industry or perceive it as a wrong practice. Therefore, the problem of online piracy becomes rampant. This research investigates the direct and indirect relationships between deviant peer associations, perceived benefits, attitude towards digital piracy, subjective norms, self-efficacy, digital piracy intention and actual digital piracy behaviour. A total of 450 samples were gathered via an online self-administered questionnaire survey. The data was evaluated by structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). According to the statistical findings, all of the direct and indirect relationships among the seven variables are significantly supported. This study provides theoretical and managerial implications by demonstrating that digital piracy intention has a significant relationship on actual digital piracy behaviour as well as deviant peer associations have a significant relationship on an individual’s attitude towards digital piracy. This study concludes with some limitations and recommendations for the future digital piracy research.
马来西亚数字盗版行为的决定因素
技术的进步促进了商业运营数字化的可持续和重大发展,包括但不限于电子商务,但也导致数字犯罪,特别是在线盗版的显著增加。许多消费者寻找盗版内容,他们中的大多数人并不认为这最终会损害创意产业,也不认为这是一种错误的做法。因此,网络盗版问题变得猖獗。本研究考察了越轨同伴交往、感知利益、数字盗版态度、主观规范、自我效能感、数字盗版意图与实际数字盗版行为之间的直接和间接关系。通过在线自我管理问卷调查共收集了450个样本。采用结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)和社会科学统计软件包(SPSS)对数据进行评估。根据统计结果,七个变量之间的直接和间接关系都得到了显著支持。本研究通过证明数字盗版意图对实际数字盗版行为有显著关系,以及越轨同伴协会对个人对数字盗版的态度有显著关系,提供了理论和管理意义。本研究总结了一些局限性和对未来数字盗版研究的建议。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
自引率
0.00%
发文量
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信