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标题：Information Technology, Privacy, and Power within Organizations: a view from Boundary Theory and Social Exchange perspectives
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作者：Jeffrey M. Stanton ; Kathryn R. Stam
期刊名称：Surveillance & Society
印刷版ISSN：1477-7487
出版年度：2002
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：152-190
出版社：Surveillance Studies Network
摘要：Over recent years, information technology has played an increasingly important role in the monitoring and surveillance of worker behavior in organizations. In this article, we take the position that managers, workers, and information technology professionals alike see worker-related information as a valuable organizational resource and that processes of social exchange influence how this information resource is controlled. These suppositions are woven together by joining two theories, information boundary theory, a motivational framework for examining privacy at work, and social exchange theory, which provides a perspective on social networks and social power. After discussing these two frameworks and how they might be interlaced, we analyze a corpus of semi-structured interviews with 119 managers, employees, and IT professionals that explored questions of privacy, motivation, and power in six not-for-profit organizations that were undergoing technology-driven change with potential for increased monitoring and surveillance.