Sanction severity and employees’ information security policy compliance: Investigating mediating, moderating, and control variables

Chen, Xiaofeng; Wu, Dazhong; Chen, Liqiang; Teng, Joe

doi:10.1016/j.im.2018.05.011

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“…This study used two steps to detect CMV. First, this study followed Bagozzi, Yi, and Phillips (1991) and Chen et al (2018)'s research to test for potential CMV in our data. Table 4 shows that the correlations among all constructs in the present study are less than the suggested threshold of 0.9.…”

Section: Common Methods Variance and Multicollinearity Checkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Zhang

Xie²,

Dong

2020

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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This study explores the relationship between positive emotions and protection-motivated behaviours by focusing on the mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderating role of information security awareness. Based on a sample of 215 full-time employees from various organizations in China, the results of hierarchical regression and moderated path analysis indicate that positive emotions positively influence protection-motivated behaviours, and self-efficacy partially mediates this relationship. In addition, information security awareness has a positive moderating effect on the relationships between positive emotions and self-efficacy and between self-efficacy and protectionmotivated behaviours. Furthermore, the findings show that information security awareness has a positive moderating effect on the mediating effect of self-efficacy between positive emotions and protection-motivated behaviours. The theoretical and practical implications of these results, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.

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Section: Common Methods Variance and Multicollinearity Checkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Zhang

Xie²,

Dong

2020

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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“…Previous studies showed that there is a gap in existing literature in terms of the differences between men and women in deterrence (Carmichael, 2004;Chen, Wu, Chen, & Teng, 2018). The need for further research investigating gender differences between employees' information systems security behavioural intention has been identified in previous studies (Chen et al, 2018;Gratian, Bandi, Cukier, Dykstra, & Ginther, 2018;Hadlington, 2018). Previous studies investigated gender differences in employees' cybersecurity behaviour (e.g.…”

Section: Gender and Byod Employee Security Behaviour Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies investigated gender differences in employees' cybersecurity behaviour (e.g. Akman & Mishra, 2010;Ifinedo, 2014;Ifinedo, 2016;Foth, 2016;Anwar et al, 2017;McCormac et al, 2017;Mamonov & Benbunan-Fich, 2018;Hadlington, 2018;Gratian et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2018). Nevertheless, despite the literature being rich in studies investigating employees' information security behaviour, there is a gap in the literature in three areas.…”

Section: Gender and Byod Employee Security Behaviour Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, it focuses on companies' ability to act against that threat (threat appraisal and coping appraisal, respectively). The theory illustrates that humans are more motivated to be protective when they are aware of the existence of the threat, the level of the threat and the consequences (Chen et al, 2018). The theory integrates five main factors: perceived risk vulnerability, severity of the adverse consequences, perceived response efficacy, perceived self-efficacy and response cost.…”

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“…Similar to PMT, the GDT has been used as a theoretical foundation in information security research and it is rooted to fear appeal (Chen et al, 2018). The theory suggests that when a fear appeal in the form of policy is presented to individuals, they will evaluate the advantages and risks of violating the rules outlined in the fear appeal (Chen et al, 2018;Jacobs, 2010). The theory focuses on two main aspects of sanctions including the severity of sanctions and the certainty of sanctions (Merhi & Ahluwalia, 2019).…”

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Considering information security and personalization paradoxes, this paper investigates the optimal information security investments of a firm and purchasing decisions of consumers with different privacy concerns in online personalization. It is found that consumers and firm tend to fall into a prisoner's dilemma in Nash equilibrium. To improve security investment efficiency and boost personalization consumption, firm‐led Stackelberg game and firm‐led Stackelberg game with punishment mechanism are proposed and analyzed. The results indicate that the security information measures firm take in advance can effectively increase the waverers' willingness to purchase personalized products. Government punishment helps to facilitate a win‐win situation but does not work when proportion of wavers in the market is very small. Furthermore, the responses of equilibrium strategies and payoffs to related characteristics are discussed numerically. Finally, some managerial insights are recommended to firms who provide personalized products for making proper security investment and to government departments for formulating security punishment policies.

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Sanction severity and employees’ information security policy compliance: Investigating mediating, moderating, and control variables

Cited by 70 publications

References 65 publications

Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Employees’ behavioural intention to smartphone security: A gender-based, cross-national study

Information security investment and purchase decision for personalized products

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