The digitization of healthcare: Boundary risks, emotion, and consumer willingness to disclose personal health information

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 469-490

  Anderson, Catherine L ^a   Agarwal, Ritu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication privacy management; Emotion; Empathy gap; Healthcare; Privacy calculus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865072497     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1100.0335     Document Type: Article

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