Empirical Analysis of Software Piracy in Asia (Japan VS. Vietnam): An Exploratory Study

Literature Review

Software piracy behaviors have been studied for decades in various fields ranging from social science to business and information systems in attempts to both clarify its contributive elements and impact on business and economics, and suggest effective curving methods (see TABLE 1). Those empirical research studies have included many dependent variables, such as economic factors (e.g. per capita GDP/GNP, income level and inequality, and high prices of software); demographic factors (e.g. age, education, and gender); cultural factors (e.g. collectivistic vs. individualistic society); and environmental factors (e.g., authority enforcement, availability of pirated software, degree of IT infrastructure, and government governance and laws).