Information and Computer Security: Volume 26 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Fredrik Karlsson, Ella Kolkowska, Marianne Törner

Strategic value alignment for information security management: a critical success factor analysis

Cindy Zhiling Tu, Yufei Yuan, Norm Archer, Catherine E. Connelly

Effective information security management is a strategic issue for organizations to safeguard their information resources. Strategic value alignment is a proactive approach to…

Escalation of commitment as an antecedent to noncompliance with information security policy

Miranda Kajtazi, Hasan Cavusoglu, Izak Benbasat, Darek Haftor

This study aims to identify antecedents to noncompliance behavior influenced by decision contexts where investments in time, effort and resources are devoted to a task – referred…

Reconciling value-based objectives for security and identity management

Kane J. Smith, Gurpreet Dhillon, Karin Hedström

In this paper, using values of individuals in a Swedish health-care organization, electronic identity management objectives related to security are defined.

Perceptions of organizational culture and value conflicts in information security management

Martin Karlsson, Thomas Denk, Joachim Åström

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of value conflicts between information security and other organizational values among white-collar workers. Further…

Information security policies and value conflict in multinational companies

Alper Yayla, Yu Lei

The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges multinational companies face during the diffusion of their information security policies. Parent companies use these policies as…

Value conflicts and non-compliance: Attitudes to whistleblowing in Swedish organisations

Joakim Berndtsson, Peter Johansson, Martin Karlsson

The purpose of the study is to explore potential value conflicts between information security work and whistleblowing activities by analysing attitudes to whistleblowing among…