Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 311-324Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2015.2432117
Keywords
Decisional control; image discrepancy; information privacy concern; online social networks; peer disclosure; social network overlap
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71302041, 71172038, 71232008]
- Ministry of Education [13YJC630008]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WN1323005]
- Shanghai Pujiang Program [13PJC021]
- Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning
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In online social networks, because one's private information can be co-owned and disclosed by peers, a new type of privacy concern, i.e., information privacy concern about peer disclosure (IPCPD), looms large. Should a member of an online social network be offered decision control to veto ex-ante the disclosure of his/her information by peers? There has been no theoretical research on the effectiveness of decisional control to alleviate such a privacy concern. Drawing on the communication privacy management perspective and the impression management theory, this study proposes a three-way interaction effect among three important antecedents of IPCPD: 1) decisional control; 2) image discrepancy (i.e., the degree to which the disclosed information portrays an unfavorable image of the disclosed person); and 3) social network overlap between the disclosed person and the discloser. Our experimental study reveals significant findings. When image discrepancy is low, decisional control is helpful only when the social network overlap between the disclosed one and the discloser is low. When image discrepancy is high, decisional control is helpful only when the social network overlap between the disclosed one and the discloser is high. This study contributes to a theory of privacy concern about peer disclosure in the context of online social networks.
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