State of the information privacy literature: Where are we now and where should we go?

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 977-988

  Pavlou, Paul A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information privacy; Information privacy concerns; Personal information

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

INFORMATION AGE; INFORMATION PRIVACY; INFORMATION PRIVACY CONCERNS; IS RESEARCHES; MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES; PERSONAL INFORMATION; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 81355132819     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41409969     Document Type: Review

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