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Situational ethics
About: Situational ethics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4023 publications have been published within this topic receiving 145379 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that there is a unique interplay between linguistic salience and perceptual salience both in production and comprehension, and the role of perceptual and linguistic saliency involves a relation between prominence of entities in a ranking, and preference of a choice among alternatives among alternatives.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: This work examines the appropriateness of extending situational crime prevention theory, a theory developed in the criminal justice domain to address physical crime, to the digital realm and suggests that situational crime Prevention theory may offer new insights into improving IS security effectiveness by reducing the criminal's anticipated rewards from the crime.
Abstract: Information is an intangible organizational asset of enormous value in the information age. Information systems (IS) security technologies play an important role in protecting that information from unauthorized disclosure, modification, and use. As such, the factors that influence the effectiveness of IS security strategies need to be understood. The existing theory base for studying IS security effectiveness is limited to three major perspectives since the mid-1980s: Straub’s extension of general deterrence theory (1987, 1990); an argument for balanced technical, formal, and informal controls by Dhillon and colleagues (1999, 2001, 2004); and various hacker motivation taxonomies developed during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Our goal is to expand the range of the theoretical lens that can be used to understand IS security effectiveness. Towards this goal, we examine the appropriateness of extending situational crime prevention theory, a theory developed in the criminal justice domain to address physical crime, to the digital realm. Our conceptual analysis suggests that situational crime prevention theory may offer new insights into improving IS security effectiveness by reducing the criminal’s anticipated rewards from the crime.
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