Information Ethics Enforcement Empirical Model: A Case of the Real Estate Industry of South Africa
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https://doi.org/10.51137/wrp.ijarbm.613Keywords:
Information Ethics, Information Ethics Enforcement, Real Estate Industry, Property Practitioners Firms, Intellectual PropertyAbstract
The real estate industry is a career pathway, source of wealth and store of value for people around the world. It creates jobs, develops the economy, reduces inequalities, eradicating poverty and addresses social ills. The South African real estate industry contributes 22% to the country’s real value added and 76% to capital stock outside of machinery and transport. However, the South African real estate industry has inefficient Information Technology (IT) systems that lead to delayed issuing of fidelity fund certificates. The industry reports challenges of unethical, unregistered and non-complying real estate firms. These instances of unethical behaviours surrounding information are termed information ethics. This research aimed to establish systems and processes that are used by real estate firms to enforce information ethics and associated challenges. Ultimately, the research aimed to introduce an information ethics enforcement model. The research was quantitative in nature and web-based questionnaire was used to collect primary data. The research found that real estate firms are enforcing information ethics using twenty-three systems and processes. The research found five challenges associated with the enforcement of information ethics. The systems, processes and challenges of information ethics constituted five independent factors that influence information ethics enforcement in the empirical model.
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