Culture and cyber security: How cultural tightness-looseness moderates the effects of threat and coping appraisals on mobile cyber hygiene

• Main Author: HOE, Kok Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Cultural; Tightness; Cyber; Hygiene; Protection; Motivation; China; Business Administration, Management, and Operations; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/357; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1354&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With increasing adoption of smartphone for mobile-commerce and increasing incidents of cyber breaches, it is timely to investigate how the weakest link in this security chain, human, can be strengthened. To date, there has been a gap in research examining the impact of culture on protection motivati...