What Do Systems Users Have to Fear? Using Fear Appeals to Engender Threats and Fear that Motivate Protective Security Behaviors

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"Cargo Cult" science in traditional organization and information systems survey research: A case for using nontraditional methods of data collection, including Mechanical Turk and online panels (2016, background): “…in which Likert-type-scale paper or electronic surveys were distributed to a small number of organizations, and such studies have consequently been warmly embraced and offered a straightforward path to publication (Boss et al., 2015; D'Arcy et al., 2009; Hsu et al., 2015; Moody & Galletta, 2015).”
The Impact of Organizational Commitment on Insiders’ Motivation to Protect Organizational Information Assets (2015, methodology): “To assess H13, we followed [9] and divided the respondents based on their median scores on affective organizational commitment so that those below the median (a score of 5) were placed in the “low” group (n = 182) and those at or above the median were placed in the “high” group (n = 198).”