Measuring severity of internet abuse in the workplace: Creation of a thurstone scale

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4865-4872

  Claybaugh, Craig C ^a   Nazareth, Derek L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet abuse; Severity of abuse; Thurstone scale

Indexed keywords

SEVERITY OF ABUSE; THURSTONE SCALE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INTERNET;

EID: 84870385640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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