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The Social Antecedents of Password Sharing: Why Do People Share Passwords?

Robert Murimi et al.

Journal of Applied Business and Economics2026https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v28i1.8089article
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Password sharing leads to significant revenue losses for subscription-service providers. This paper uses social exchange theory to study how social relationships affect users’ intentions to share passwords. From a sample of 425 individual users of subscription-based platforms, we found that perceived status was a significant predictor of password-sharing intentions: users with lower perceived social status were more likely to share their passwords with those of higher perceived social status. These findings indicate that password-sharing intentions may be more indicative of a power differential among users rather than being an exchange mechanism.

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@article{robert2026,
  title        = {{The Social Antecedents of Password Sharing: Why Do People Share Passwords?}},
  author       = {Robert Murimi et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Applied Business and Economics},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v28i1.8089},
}

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0.50

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F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
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R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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