Reflecting on the "Dark side" of information technology use

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-118

  D'Arcy, John ^a   Gupta, Ashish ^b   Tarafdar, Monideepa ^c   Turel, Ofir ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark side; Information overload addiction; Interruptions; Misuse; Security; Technostress

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DARK SIDE; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INTERRUPTIONS; MISUSE; SECURITY; TECHNOSTRESS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84911903641     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03505     Document Type: Article

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