Piracy of digital products: A critical review of the theoretical literature

M Peitz, P Waelbroeck - Information Economics and Policy, 2006 - Elsevier
Digital products can be copied at almost no cost and are subject to non-commercial copying
by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality …

The economics of copyright in the digital age

C Peukert, M Windisch - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Intellectual property rights are fundamental to how economies organize innovation and steer
the diffusion of knowledge. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up …

Digital innovations: Embedding in organizations

F Wiesböck, T Hess - Electronic Markets, 2020 - Springer
In the digital era, organizations can use digital technologies to develop new digital products
and services, business processes, or business models. These so-called digital innovations …

Protecting their digital assets: The use of formal & informal appropriability strategies by App developers

M Miric, KJ Boudreau, LB Jeppesen - Research Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Innovators and entrepreneurs develo** products and competing “on top” of digital
platforms face different conditions than do those in more traditional industries. In this paper …

Factors that influence the intention to pirate software and media

TP Cronan, S Al-Rafee - Journal of business ethics, 2008 - Springer
This study focuses on one of the newer forms of software piracy, known as digital piracy, and
uses the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a framework to attempt to determine factors …

The dual role of IT capabilities in the development of digital products and services

F Wiesböck, T Hess, J Spanjol - Information & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Past research on the business value of information technologies (IT) has demonstrated the
positive contribution of IT capabilities (IT-C) to product innovation performance. However …

Managing piracy: Pricing and sampling strategies for digital experience goods in vertically segmented markets

RK Chellappa, S Shivendu - Information Systems Research, 2005 - pubsonline.informs.org
Digital goods lend themselves to versioning but also suffer from piracy losses. This paper
develops a pricing model for digital experience goods in a segmented market and explores …

The relationship between ownership and possession: observations from the context of digital virtual goods

RD Watkins, J Denegri-Knott… - Journal of Marketing …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This theoretical article highlights limitations in the current trend towards dichotomising full
ownership and access-based consumption by recognising a broader, more complex array of …

Research note—when is versioning optimal for information goods?

HK Bhargava, V Choudhary - Management Science, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper provides insights about when versioning is an optimal strategy for information
goods. Our characterization of this class of goods is that variable costs are invariant with …

Does piracy lead to product abandonment or stimulate new product development?: Evidence from mobile platform‐based developer firms

M Miric, LB Jeppesen - Strategic Management Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary With the growth of digital platforms, understanding the role of
property rights on those platforms has become increasingly important. Digital piracy, the …