Organizational Privacy Strategy: Four Quadrants of Strategic Responses to Information Privacy and Security Threats

Parks, Rachida; Wigand, Rolf T.

doi:10.1080/15536548.2014.974435

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“…Privacy strategy of an organization forms an important component of how it assures PII entrusted upon them. In their study based on privacy responses and proactiveness typology of organizational privacy strategy, Parks and Wigand (2014) identified that organizational environments impact the strategies required to respond to privacy threats. The organizational environment constitutes of institutional pressures and organizational strategy types.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Besides external pressures, organizations face other problems while deciding on their privacy strategy. These are the “entrepreneurial problem”, “engineering problem” and the “administrative problem” (Parks and Wigand, 2014). The entrepreneurial problem pertains to product market domain definition, the engineering problem pertains to technologies and processes in relationship with the entrepreneurial problem and the administrative problem pertains to how the strategies are implemented.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Along the dimensions of resistance and proactiveness the strategies can be outlined across four quadrants (Parks and Wigand, 2014). In Quadrant I is the conformist strategy where the organization adopts acquiescence compromise strategy on resistance dimension and reactor defender approach on proactiveness dimension.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Parks and Wigand (2014) define the privacy strategy along the dimensions of proactiveness and resistance. On the basis of these dimensions, they suggest that organizations may shift between conformist, entrepreneur, transformer or defender strategies.…”

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Strategy for privacy assurance in offshoring arrangements

Sharma

Kaushik

2017

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Purpose Offshoring is a common practice to operationalize global business strategies. Data protection and privacy assurance are major concerns in such international arrangements. This paper aims to examine the strategy adopted to ensure privacy assurance in offshoring arrangements. Design/methodology/approach This is a literature review to understand privacy assurance strategies adopted in offshoring arrangements and an exploratory case study of captive offshoring arrangement with onshore location in Canada and offshoring locations in India and Philippines. A comparative analysis of the privacy laws and privacy principles of Canada, Philippines and India has been done. Findings It was found that at the time of migration of process or work to the offshore location, organizations follow a conformist privacy strategy; however, once in business as usual mode, they follow entrepreneur privacy strategy. Privacy impact assessment (PIA) was found to be an important element in resolving the “administrative problem” of an offshoring organization’s privacy assurance strategy. Research limitations/implications The core privacy principles are outlined in the PIA templates; however, the current templates are designed to meet the conformist strategy and may need to be revised to include the cultural aspects, training, audit and information security requirements to plan and deliver on the entrepreneur strategy. Practical implications Offshoring organizations can benefit by planning for entrepreneur privacy assurance strategy at the inception stage. Enhancements to PIA templates to facilitate the same have been suggested. Originality/value Privacy assurance strategy followed by organizations while offshoring has been examined. This paper suggests extending the PIA process so that it covers privacy assurance requirements in offshoring arrangements. The learnings can be used in managing privacy assurance requirements in similar multi-country offshore arrangements.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Strategy for privacy assurance in offshoring arrangements

Sharma

Kaushik

2017

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“…How a firm reacts to the challenge depends on many factors, including the following: its goals; its culture; how it implements its strategies; the degree to which it is affected by its social networks; whether it is proactive or reactive in its response to external pressures; how much information it collects; whether it collects information to spur internal innovation or better understand customers; its perception about how much its customers value privacy; how and to what extent it invests in information technology; and how it puts its privacy activities in place and the outcomes it desires from these activities (Chan & Greenaway, 2005;Greenaway & Chan, 2013;Parks & Wigand, 2014). However, fundamentally a firm can see privacy as a threat to be dealt with or as an opportunity to be taken.…”

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A Review of Information Privacy and Its Importance to Consumers and Organizations

Pelteret

Ophoff

2016

InformingSciJ

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The privacy of personal information is an important area of focus in today's electronic world, where information can so easily be captured, stored, and shared. In recent years it has regularly featured as a topic in news media and has become the target of legislation around the world. Multidisciplinary privacy research has been conducted for decades, yet privacy remains a complex subject that still provides fertile ground for further investigation. This article provides a narrative overview of the nature of information privacy, describing the complexities and challenges that consumers and organizations face when making decisions about it, in order to demonstrate its importance to both groups. Based on this work, we present a transdisciplinary view of information privacy research linking the consumer and organization. It illustrates areas of concern for consumers and organizations together with the factors that influence the decisions they make about information privacy. By providing such a view we hope to encourage further crossdisciplinary research into this highly pertinent area.

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A Framework System Using Word Mover’s Distance Text Similarity Algorithm for Assessing Privacy Policy Compliance

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Chua

2021

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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Organizational Privacy Strategy: Four Quadrants of Strategic Responses to Information Privacy and Security Threats

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Strategy for privacy assurance in offshoring arrangements

Strategy for privacy assurance in offshoring arrangements

A Review of Information Privacy and Its Importance to Consumers and Organizations

A Framework System Using Word Mover’s Distance Text Similarity Algorithm for Assessing Privacy Policy Compliance

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