Theses and Dissertations
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5150-0556
Advisor
Warkentin, Merrill
Committee Member
Marett, Kent
Committee Member
Nehme, Alaa
Committee Member
Paul, Chinju
Committee Member
Landers, Myles
Date of Degree
5-16-2025
Original embargo terms
Embargo 2 years
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
Major
Business Administration (Business Information Systems)
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Business
Department
Department of Management and Information Systems
Abstract
This research conceptualizes and explores employees’ unethical but pro-organizational behavior in the information security context, specifically examining how employees may engage in deviant security behaviors to benefit their organization after a data breach. This study challenges the traditional focus on self-benefitting information security policy violations. By integrating protection motivation theory and the person-situation interactionist framework, this study investigates how individuals’ appraisals and their interactions with social appraisal influence unethical but pro-organizational security behavior. This paper provides a theoretical contribution to protection motivation theory by exploring the role of social appraisal and juxtaposing it with individuals’ appraisal. Additionally, we contribute to the information security literature by addressing the previously under explored phenomenon of unethical but pro-organizational security behavior.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Sumin, "Don’t take sides against the family: The role of social appraisal in unethical but pro-organizational security behavior after data breach" (2025). Theses and Dissertations. 6517.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/6517
