An online experiment (n=1,897) was carried out to understand how data disclosure practices in ubiquitous surveillance affect users' privacy concerns. Information about the identity and intentions of a data collector was manipulated in hypothetical surveillance scenarios. Privacy concerns were found to differ across the scenarios and moderated by knowledge about the collector's identity and inte...

We study a dynamic voluntary disclosure setting where the manager’s information and firm’s value evolve over time. The manager is not limited in her opportunities, but costly. results show that discloses even if this leads to price decrease current period. absorbs drop order increase option of withholding future. That is, by disclosing today, can improve continuation value. provide number novel...

This paper presents a model for representing personal information and group information. This model is expressed by using an ontology, and allows us to represent the information in terms of privacy protection. Therefore the control of disclosing or concealing the information can be achieved based on this model. We also describe an access method to personal and group information. It combines thi...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires companies it regulates to include disclosures about the board’s role in risk oversight annual proxy statement shareholders. SEC does not mandate specific content or actions that boards should perform as part of their responsibilities, leaving nature activities extent those discretion reporting entity. This study examines whether these c...

Laissez-faire leadership has received much less attention than have the 3 transactional leadership dimensions of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). However, laissez-faire leadership has shown strong negative relationships with various leadership criteria, and the absence of leadership (laissez-faire leadership) may be just as important as is the presence of other types of leadershi...

The managers of the valuable resources held by museums, archives and libraries compile descriptions of their holdings both so that they can administer and control those resources more effectively and in order to enhance access to those resources by disclosing information about their existence and availability to potential users. The channels through which resource managers provide that informat...

Is economics a science or a theology? Nelson sensibly argues that economists are a priestly class; they issue authoritative (scientific) blessings upon the marketplace. The bishops of this class are the mathematicians, who convert ideology into “science”. This essay, in contrast, argues that mathematics has more to do with internal competition between economists than with politics or religion. ...

BACKGROUND Proponents of consumer genetic tests claim that the information can positively impact health behaviors and aid in chronic disease prevention. However, the effects of disclosing genetic information on dietary intake behavior are not clear. METHODS A double-blinded, parallel group, 2:1 online randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine the short- and long-term effects of d...