An empirical study of a behavioral decision model with moderated effects for long-range security initiatives

Security Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-32

  Workman, Michael ^a  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral decision making; biases in security decision making; security behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872435557     PISSN: 09551662     EISSN: 17434645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sj.2011.31     Document Type: Article

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