文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Information Privacy Concern About Peer Disclosure in Online Social Networks

作者：Chen, Jin[1];Ping, Jerry Wenjie[2];Xu, Yunjie (Calvin)[3];Tan, Bernard C. Y.[4]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Standard Chartered Bank, Marina Bay Financial Ctr, Singapore 018981, Singapore;[3]Fudan Univ, Sch Management, Dept Informat Management & Informat Syst, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China;[4]Natl Univ Singapore, Sch Comp, Dept Informat Syst, Singapore 117418, Singapore

年份：2015

卷号：62

期号：3

起止页码：311

外文期刊名：IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

收录：;EI(收录号：20152300925581);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000358207000002)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000358207000002)】；

基金：Manuscript received September 29, 2013; revised August 8, 2014 and February 27, 2015; accepted May 3, 2015. Date of publication June 1, 2015; date of current version July 15, 2015. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71302041, Grant 71172038, and Grant 71232008; by the Ministry of Education Project of Youth Fund of Humanities and Social Sciences under Grant 13YJC630008; by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant WN1323005; by the Shanghai Pujiang Program under Grant 13PJC021; and by the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning. Review of this manuscript was arranged by Department Editor T. Ravichandran. (Corresponding author: Yunjie Xu.)

语种：英文

外文关键词：Decisional control; image discrepancy; information privacy concern; online social networks; peer disclosure; social network overlap

摘要：In online social networks, because one's private information can be co-owned and disclosed by peers, a new type of privacy concern, i.e., information privacy concern about peer disclosure (IPCPD), looms large. Should a member of an online social network be offered decision control to veto ex-ante the disclosure of his/her information by peers? There has been no theoretical research on the effectiveness of decisional control to alleviate such a privacy concern. Drawing on the communication privacy management perspective and the impression management theory, this study proposes a three-way interaction effect among three important antecedents of IPCPD: 1) decisional control; 2) image discrepancy (i.e., the degree to which the disclosed information portrays an unfavorable image of the disclosed person); and 3) social network overlap between the disclosed person and the discloser. Our experimental study reveals significant findings. When image discrepancy is low, decisional control is helpful only when the social network overlap between the disclosed one and the discloser is low. When image discrepancy is high, decisional control is helpful only when the social network overlap between the disclosed one and the discloser is high. This study contributes to a theory of privacy concern about peer disclosure in the context of online social networks.