Information privacy and correlates: an empirical attempt to bridge and distinguish privacy-related concepts

• Published in: European journal of information systems Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 295 - 316
• Main Authors: Dinev, Tamara, Xu, Heng, Smith, Jeff H, Hart, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis 01.05.2013; Palgrave Macmillan UK; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Anonymity; Business and Management; Business Information Systems; confidentiality; control; Efficient markets; Information control; Information systems; Information Systems and Communication Service; Information theory; Innovation/Technology Management; Literature reviews; Management information systems; Marketing; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Politics; Privacy; Research Article; risk; secrecy; Studies; Subject fields; privacy; anonymity; control; risk; secrecy; confidentiality

Privacy is one of the few concepts that has been studied across many disciplines, but is still difficult to grasp. The current understanding of privacy is largely fragmented and discipline-dependent. This study develops and tests a framework of information privacy and its correlates, the latter ofte...