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Identity theft: An exploratory study with implications for marketers

Eric M . Eisenstein
- 01 Nov 2008 - 
- Vol. 61, Iss: 11, pp 1160-1172
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The authors used a system dynamics model to explore policy options dealing with identity theft and to provide implications for marketers, concluding that the current approach to combating identity theft will not work and that inexpensive security freezes could be effective, because they result in a nonlinear reduction in identity theft that is similar to the "herd immunity" seen in epidemiology.
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This article is published in Journal of Business Research.The article was published on 2008-11-01. It has received 36 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Identity theft.

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TL;DR: This study examines two types of coping behaviors to fight identity theft, and reveals that both conventional coping and technological coping are effective to defend against identity theft.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a two-dimensional online identity theft scale that measures individual differences in consumers' proneness to feel negative emotions in relation to shopping online, specifically, the fear that others may illicitly use their identifying details.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the 2009 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice (SCPC) to study the effect of identity theft incidents on adoption and usage patterns for nine different payment instruments in the U.S.
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