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Dr. jie tang
Beijing University of Posts and Communications

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Journal article
Published: 30 July 2021 in Information
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Personal information has been likened to “golden data”, which companies have chased using every means possible. Via mobile apps, the incidents of compulsory authorization and excessive data collection have evoked privacy concerns and strong repercussions among app users. This manuscript proposes a privacy boundary management model, which elaborates how such users can demarcate and regulate their privacy boundaries. The survey data came from 453 users who authorized certain operations through mobile apps. The partial least squares (PLS) analysis method was used to validate the instrument and the proposed model. Results indicate that information relevance and transparency play a significant role in shaping app users’ control–risk perceptions, while government regulation is more effective than industry self-discipline in promoting the formation of privacy boundaries. Unsurprisingly, privacy risk control perceptions significantly affect users’ privacy concerns and trust beliefs, which are two vital factors that ultimately influence their willingness to authorize. The implications of conducting a thorough inquiry into app users’ willingness to authorize their privacy information are far-reaching. In relation to this, app vendors should probe into the privacy-relevant beliefs of their users and enact effective privacy practices to intercept the economic and reputational damages induced by improper information collection. More significantly, a comprehensive understanding of users’ willingness to authorize their information can serve as an essential reference for relevant regulatory bodies to formulate reasonable privacy protection policies in the future.

ACS Style

Jie Tang; Bin Zhang; Umair Akram. What Drives Authorization in Mobile Applications? A Perspective of Privacy Boundary Management. Information 2021, 12, 311 .

AMA Style

Jie Tang, Bin Zhang, Umair Akram. What Drives Authorization in Mobile Applications? A Perspective of Privacy Boundary Management. Information. 2021; 12 (8):311.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Jie Tang; Bin Zhang; Umair Akram. 2021. "What Drives Authorization in Mobile Applications? A Perspective of Privacy Boundary Management." Information 12, no. 8: 311.

Earlycite article
Published: 13 August 2020 in Journal of Enterprise Information Management
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PurposeMobile Applications (App) privacy has become a prominent social problem. Compared with privacy concerns, this study examines a relatively novel concept of privacy fatigue and explores its effect on the users’ intention to disclose their personal information via mobile Apps. In addition, the personality traits are proposed as antecedents that will induce the personal perception of privacy fatigue and privacy concerns differently.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 426 respondents. Structure equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe findings describe that App users’ intention toward personal information disclosure is determined by privacy fatigue and privacy concerns, but the former has a greater impact. With minor exceptions, the two factors are also influenced by different personality traits. Specifically, neuroticism has positive effects on privacy fatigue, but agreeableness and extraversion have presented the opposite results on the two variables.Practical implicationsThis research is very scarce to examine the joint effects of privacy fatigue, privacy concerns and personality traits on App users’ disclosing intention. In doing so, these results will be of benefit to App providers and platform managers and can be the basis for a variety of follow-up studies.Originality/valueWhile previous research just focuses on privacy concerns, this study explores the critical roles of privacy fatigue and opens up a new avenue of emotion-attitude analysis that can further increase the specificity and richness of users’ privacy research. Additionally, implications for personality traits as antecedents in the impact of App users’ privacy emotions and attitudes are discussed.

ACS Style

Jie Tang; Umair Akram; Wenjing Shi. Why people need privacy? The role of privacy fatigue in app users' intention to disclose privacy: based on personality traits. Journal of Enterprise Information Management 2020, ahead-of-p, 1 .

AMA Style

Jie Tang, Umair Akram, Wenjing Shi. Why people need privacy? The role of privacy fatigue in app users' intention to disclose privacy: based on personality traits. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. 2020; ahead-of-p (ahead-of-p):1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Jie Tang; Umair Akram; Wenjing Shi. 2020. "Why people need privacy? The role of privacy fatigue in app users' intention to disclose privacy: based on personality traits." Journal of Enterprise Information Management ahead-of-p, no. ahead-of-p: 1.

Earlycite article
Published: 16 December 2019 in Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the facilitating and inhibitory factors on paid app downloading intentions based on an integrated valence theory, considering two social environmental factors and two intermediate variables: perceived value and perceived trust. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on the integrated valence theory. After collecting users’ data, partial least square analysis is used to examine the main driving and constraining factors for users to download paid apps in Apple mobile devices. Findings The empirical results show that mediated through perceived value, perceived usefulness and perceived compatibility are the absolute positive factors that affect user’s willingness to purchase apps, whereas perceived cost is the main barrier for users to do so. Social environment where the users are in also plays an important role in their purchase intentions. Practical implications This study hopes to offer guidance to paid app developers and general app markets, and to help expand the consumer group, make the purchase experience more efficient and promote the development of paid app market. Originality/value The finding not only enriches the adoption theory of mobile apps from the perspective of valence theory, but also provides pricing and functional suggestions for platform suppliers and software developers of paid apps.

ACS Style

Jie Tang; Bin Zhang; Umair Akram. User willingness to purchase applications on mobile intelligent devices: evidence from app store. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 2019, 32, 1629 -1649.

AMA Style

Jie Tang, Bin Zhang, Umair Akram. User willingness to purchase applications on mobile intelligent devices: evidence from app store. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics. 2019; 32 (8):1629-1649.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Jie Tang; Bin Zhang; Umair Akram. 2019. "User willingness to purchase applications on mobile intelligent devices: evidence from app store." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 32, no. 8: 1629-1649.