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标题：Acceptance of Smart Electronic Monitoring at Work as a Result of a Privacy Calculus Decision
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作者：Evgenia Princi ; Nicole C. Krämer
期刊名称：Informatics
电子版ISSN：2227-9709
出版年度：2019
卷号：6
期号：3
页码：40-58
DOI：10.3390/informatics6030040
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Smart technology in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) that extensively gathers user data in order to provide full functioning has become ubiquitous in our everyday life. At the workplace, individual’s privacy is especially threatened by the deployment of smart monitoring technology due to unbalanced power relations. In this work we argue that employees’ acceptance of smart monitoring systems can be predicted based on privacy calculus considerations and trust. Therefore, in an online experiment (N = 661) we examined employees’ acceptance of a smart emergency detection system, depending on the rescue value of the system and whether the system’s tracking is privacy-invading or privacy-preserving. We hypothesized that trust in the employer, perceived benefits and risks serve as predictors of system acceptance. Moreover, the moderating effect of privacy concerns is analyzed.
关键词：IoT technology; electronic monitoring at work; privacy calculus; privacy concerns; smart technology; trust IoT technology ; electronic monitoring at work ; privacy calculus ; privacy concerns ; smart technology ; trust