Legal and Privacy Concerns of BYOD Adoption

authored by: Kenan Degirmenci, Michael H. Breitner, Ferry Nolte, Jens Passlick
Abstract: We investigate legal concerns in privacy calculus, which are currently not given enough attention in privacy research. Legal aspects can lead to liability issues in various information systems scenarios such as bring your own device (BYOD) in the workplace. To analyze the impact of legal concerns in privacy calculus, we conducted a quantitative study by surveying 542 employees from three countries: United States, Germany, and South Korea. Building on our research model to test our hypothesized relationships, structural equation modeling was employed. Our findings provide recommendations for multinational organizations to mitigate legal concerns in privacy calculus. A comparison of the three countries reveals that employees from the United States and South Korea place greater emphasis on legal concerns compared to German employees. We develop an understanding of employees’ concerns with liability issues, and how these affect their privacy calculus in a BYOD context.
Organisation(s): Institute of Computer Science for Business Administration
External Organisation(s): Queensland University of Technology
Continental AG
VHV Vereinigte Hannoversche Versicherung a.G.
Type: Article
Journal: Journal of Computer Information Systems
Volume: 65
Pages: 64-75
No. of pages: 12
ISSN: 0887-4417
Publication date: 2025
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Information Systems, Education, Computer Networks and Communications
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1080/08874417.2023.2259346 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

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title = "Legal and Privacy Concerns of BYOD Adoption",
abstract = "We investigate legal concerns in privacy calculus, which are currently not given enough attention in privacy research. Legal aspects can lead to liability issues in various information systems scenarios such as bring your own device (BYOD) in the workplace. To analyze the impact of legal concerns in privacy calculus, we conducted a quantitative study by surveying 542 employees from three countries: United States, Germany, and South Korea. Building on our research model to test our hypothesized relationships, structural equation modeling was employed. Our findings provide recommendations for multinational organizations to mitigate legal concerns in privacy calculus. A comparison of the three countries reveals that employees from the United States and South Korea place greater emphasis on legal concerns compared to German employees. We develop an understanding of employees{\textquoteright} concerns with liability issues, and how these affect their privacy calculus in a BYOD context.",
keywords = "Bring your own device, BYOD, IT consumerization, legal concerns, privacy calculus",
author = "Kenan Degirmenci and Breitner, {Michael H.} and Ferry Nolte and Jens Passlick",
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