Out of fear or desire? Toward a better understanding of employees' motivation to follow IS security policies

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Information Manager (The)

• Publication date

  2011-10-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Psychology, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.im.2011.07.002
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Neutralization: New Insights into the Problem of Employee Systems Security Policy Violations

  2010cited by this paper
• User Awareness of Security Countermeasures and Its Impact on Information Systems Misuse: A Deterrence Approach

  2009cited by this paper
• The value of value congruence.

  2009cited by this paper
• Estimating the market impact of security breach announcements on firm values

  2009cited by this paper
• Protection motivation and deterrence: a framework for security policy compliance in organisations

  2009cited by this paper
• Behavioral and policy issues in information systems security: the insider threat

  2009cited by this paper
• Information security management standards: Problems and solutions

  2009cited by this paper
• Specifying Formative Constructs in Information Systems Research

  2007cited by this paper
• Assimilation of enterprise systems: the effect of institutional pressures and the mediating role of top management

  2007cited by this paper
• Psychological perspectives on legitimacy and legitimation.

  2006cited by this paper
• Can Businesses Effectively Regulate Employee Conduct? The Antecedents of Rule Following in Work Settings

  2005influential reference
• An integrative model of computer abuse based on social control and general deterrence theories

  2004cited by this paper
• An integrative study of information systems security effectiveness

  2003cited by this paper

• Does Leadership Approach Matter? Examining Behavioral Influences of Leaders on Employees’ Information Security Compliance

  2025cites this paper
• Beyond Deterrence: A Systematic Review of the Role of Autonomous Motivation in Organizational Security Behavior Studies

  2025cites this paper
• A structured review of insider cybersecurity behaviour studies

  2025cites this paper
• LAURA: A Framework for Assessing the Usability of IT Security Policies Based on Learnability, Actionability, Understandability, Relevance, and Abstraction

  2025cites this paper
• The effect of basic psychological needs on employees’ behavioral intention to protect industrial technology in high-tech firms

  2025cites this paper
• Addressing organisational, individual and technological aspects and challenges in information security management: applying a framework in workplace and teleworking

  2025cites this paper
• Uncovering the Relationship Between Employee Emotions and Occupational Well-Being During Economic Crises

  2024cites this paper
• Psychological explanations for analysts' herding behavior: A study on the impact of information cascades and reputational concerns

  2024cites this paper
• Six Board Roles for Information Security Governance

  2024cites this paper
• Focusing on the fundamentals? An investigation of the relationship between corporate social irresponsibility and data breach risk

  2024cites this paper
• Human-Centered Cybersecurity Revisited: From Enemies to Partners

  2024cites this paper
• Fostering information security compliance as organizational citizenship behavior

  2024cites this paper
• The influence of organizational values on employee attitude and information security behavior: the mediating role of psychological capital

  2023cites this paper
• The direct and indirect effect of organizational justice on employee intention to comply with information security policy: The case of Ethiopian banks

  2023cites this paper
• Antecedents of Compliance Intention and Its Impact on Waste Separation Behavior: Based on Rational Choice Theory and Deterrence Theory

  2023influential citation
• Personal and Contextual Predictors of Information Security Policy Compliance: Evidence from a Low-Fidelity Simulation

  2023cites this paper
• A comparative evaluation of behavioral security motives: Protection, intrinsic, and identity motivations

  2023cites this paper
• What are the trend and core knowledge of information security? A citation and co-citation analysis

  2023cites this paper
• Is cybersecurity research missing a trick? Integrating insights from the psychology of habit into research and practice

  2023cites this paper
• Top secret: Integrating 20 years of research on secrecy

  2023cites this paper
• Restaurant worker food safety and sanitation compliance behavior in times of crisis: an investigation of transactional leadership behavior effectiveness

  2023cites this paper
• Employees' in-role and extra-role information security behaviors from the P-E fit perspective

  2023cites this paper
• Addressing Organisational, Individual and Technological Aspects and Challenges in Information Security Management: Applying a Framework for a Case Study

  2023influential citation
• Work Values, Travel Satisfaction, and Organizational Injustice as Antecedents of Corporate Travel Policy Compliance

  2023cites this paper
• From forceful compliance to motivated endorsement: effects of gamification on policy compliance during COVID-19

  2023cites this paper
• ‘What a waste of time’: An examination of cybersecurity legitimacy

  2023cites this paper
• The Impact of Penalty on Residents’ Waste Separation Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model

  2023cites this paper
• The role of ethical climates in employee information security policy violations

  2023cites this paper
• Where authorities fail and experts excel: Influencing internet users' compliance intentions

  2023cites this paper
• An Investigation of Employees’ Intention to Comply with Information Security System—A Mixed Approach Based on Regression Analysis and fsQCA

  2022cites this paper
• Do Leadership Styles Influence Employee Information Systems Security Intention? A Study of the Banking Industry

  2022cites this paper
• An analysis of fear factors predicting enterprise social media use in an era of communication visibility

  2022cites this paper
• Moving beyond cyber security awareness and training to engendering security knowledge sharing

  2022cites this paper
• Bring Your Own Device Information Security Policy Compliance Framework: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis (2017–2022)

  2022cites this paper
• Cyber–Information Security Compliance and Violation Behaviour in Organisations: A Systematic Review

  2022cites this paper
• Association between stress and information security policy non-compliance behavior: A meta-analysis

  2022cites this paper
• Do desire, anxiety and personal innovativeness impact the adoption of IoT devices?

  2022cites this paper
• Exploring Personal and Environmental Factors that Can Reduce Nonmalicious Information Security Violations

  2022cites this paper
• Cyber supply chain risk management and performance in industry 4.0 era: information system security practices in Malaysia

  2022influential citation
• The influence of familiarity with Information Technology on the effects of deterrence

  2022cites this paper
• The Study to Reinforce IS Related Motivation of Employee: A Perspective on IS Related Awareness and Person-organization fit

  2022cites this paper
• Understanding individual differences: factors affecting secure computer behaviour

  2021cites this paper
• Fear Assessment in Information Security Dialog Box based on Hybrid Kansei Engineering and KJ Method

  2021cites this paper
• Social Controls and Bonds of Public Information Consumer on Sustainable Utilization and Provision for Computing

  2021cites this paper
• The moderating effect of abusive supervision on information security policy compliance: Evidence from the hospitality industry

  2021cites this paper
• Voluntary and Instrumental Information Security Policy Compliance: An Integrated View of Prosocial Motivation, Self-Regulation and Deterrence

  2021cites this paper
• The role of self-efficacy on the adoption of information systems security innovations: a meta-analysis assessment

  2021influential citation
• Assessing information security behaviour: a self-determination theory perspective

  2021cites this paper
• Theorizing the Behavioral Effects of Control Complementarity in Security Control Portfolios

  2021cites this paper
• Bibliometric Analysis of Trends in Theory-related Policy Publications

  2021cites this paper
• Deterrence and leadership factors: Which are important for information security policy compliance in the hotel industry

  2021cites this paper
• Rhetorical appeals and legitimacy perceptions: How to induce Rhetorical appeals and legitimacy perceptions: How to induce information security policy compliance information security policy compliance

  2021cites this paper
• Information Security Policy Compliance - Eliciting Requirements for a Computerized Software to support Value-Based Compliance Analysis

  2021cites this paper
• Impact of negative emotions on violations of information security policy and possible mitigations

  2021cites this paper
• Paths to the Light and Dark Sides of Human Nature: A Meta-analysis of the Prosocial Benefits of Autonomy and the Antisocial Costs of Control

  2021cites this paper
• Information Security Behavior and Information Security Policy Compliance: A Systematic Literature Review for Identifying the Transformation Process from Noncompliance to Compliance

  2021cites this paper
• Exploring the Influence of Direct and Indirect Factors on Information Security Policy Compliance: A Systematic Literature Review

  2021cites this paper
• Value conflicts and information security – a mixed-methods study in high-risk industry

  2021cites this paper
• Toward a Unified View of Dynamic Information Security Behaviors

  2021cites this paper
• How Control Configurations and Enactments Shape Legitimacy How Control Configurations and Enactments Shape Legitimacy Perceptions and Compliance Intentions in IS Development Perceptions and Compliance Intentions in IS Development Projects Projects

  2020influential citation
• The role of deterrability for the effect of multi-level sanctions on information security policy compliance: Results of a multigroup analysis

  2020cites this paper
• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION SECURITY BEHAVIOR AND SATISFACTION DEGREE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS AND THE MEDIATION EFFECT OF TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

  2020cites this paper
• EFFECTS OF SANCTION ON THE MENTALITY OF INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY COMPLIANCE

  2020cites this paper
• Information Security Compliance Behaviour of Supply Chain Stakeholders

  2020cites this paper
• A real-world information security performance assessment using a multidimensional socio-technical approach

  2020cites this paper
• Organizational Citizenship Behavior Regarding Security: Leadership Approach Perspective

  2020influential citation
• Factors Influencing Information Security Policy Compliance Behavior

  2020cites this paper
• A Study on the Mitigation of Information Security Avoid Behavior: From Goal Setting, Justice, Trust perspective

  2020cites this paper
• A meta-analysis of the deterrence theory in security-compliant and security-risk behaviors

  2020cites this paper
• Student Compliance Intention Model for Continued Usage of E-Learning in University

  2020cites this paper
• Too Good to Be True: Firm Social Performance and the Risk of Data Breach

  2020cites this paper
• Toward a stage theory of the development of employees' information security behavior

  2020cites this paper
• Information security policies’ compliance: a perspective for higher education institutions

  2020cites this paper
• Information Systems Security Leadership: An Empirical Study of Behavioral Influences of Leaders on Employees’ Security Compliance

  2020influential citation
• The hunt for computerized support in information security policy management

  2020cites this paper
• The Cultural Foundation of Information Security Behavior: Developing a Cultural Fit Framework for Information Security Behavior Control

  2020cites this paper
• Peers matter: The moderating role of social influence on information security policy compliance

  2020influential citation
• Cyber-Resiliency for Digital Enterprises: A Strategic Leadership Perspective

  2020cites this paper
• Simulation Games Platform for Unintentional Perpetrator Attack Vector Identification

  2020cites this paper
• Cleaner production practices at company level enhance the desire of employees to have a significant positive impact on society through work

  2020cites this paper
• The effects of bidder factors on online bidding strategies: A motivation-opportunity-ability (MOA) model

  2020cites this paper
• The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment in Information Security Compliance Intentions

  2020influential citation
• A Study on Mitigation of Information Security Related Work Stress

  2020cites this paper
• Exploring the role of intrinsic motivation in ISSP compliance: enterprise digital rights management system case

  2020cites this paper
• Technology-Mediated Control Legitimacy in the Gig Economy: Conceptualization and Nomological Network

  2020cites this paper
• 2 Fast 2 Secure: A Case Study of Post-Breach Security Changes

  2019cites this paper
• Policy compliance and deterrence mechanism in the sharing economy

  2019cites this paper
• Deterrent effects of punishment and training on insider security threats: a field experiment on phishing attacks

  2019cites this paper
• The Theory of Planned Behavior and Information Security Policy Compliance

  2019cites this paper
• Information security policy noncompliance: An integrative social influence model

  2019cites this paper
• Information security management framework for small and medium enterprise

  2019cites this paper
• Building an Information Security Awareness Program for a Bank: Case from Ethiopia

  2019cites this paper
• The effects of moral disengagement and organizational ethical climate on insiders' information security policy violation behavior

  2019cites this paper
• Encouraging recycling among households in Malaysia: Does deterrence matter?

  2019cites this paper
• End user nonmalicious, counterproductive computer security behaviors: concept, development, and validation of an instrument

  2019cites this paper
• Information Security Policy Compliance

  2019cites this paper
• Deterrence and Prevention-based Model to Mitigate Information Security Insider Threats in Organisations

  2019influential citation
• Violators versus non-violators of information security measures in organizations—A study of distinguishing factors

  2019cites this paper
• Safeguarding the Information Systems in an Organization through Different Technologies, Policies, and Actions

  2019cites this paper
• The Impact of Awareness of Being Monitored on Computer Usage Policy Compliance: An Agency View

  2019cites this paper