Cleaning house: The impact of information technology monitoring on employee theft and productivity

Management Science

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2299-2319

  Pierce, Lamar ^a   Snow, Daniel C ^b   McAfee, Andrew ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime prevention; Information systems; IT policy and management; Judicial legal; Marketing; Organizational studies; Personnel; Productivity; Sales force; Service operations

Indexed keywords

CRIME; DIGITAL STORAGE; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARKETING; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY;

CRIME PREVENTION; IT POLICY AND MANAGEMENTS; JUDICIAL/LEGAL; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; SALES FORCE; SERVICE OPERATIONS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84930949990     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2103     Document Type: Article

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