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A General, But Readily Adaptable Model Of Information System Risk, Steven Alter, Susan A. Sherer
A General, But Readily Adaptable Model Of Information System Risk, Steven Alter, Susan A. Sherer
Business Analytics and Information Systems
This article is the first of two whose goal is to advance the discussion of IS risk by addressing limitations of the current IS risk literature. These limitations include:
- inconsistent or unclear definitions of risk,
- limited applicability of risk models,
- frequent omission of the temporal nature of risk, and
- lack of an easily communicated organizing framework for risk factors.
This article presents a general, but broadly adaptable model of system-related risk. The companion article, Volume 14, Article 2[Sherer and Alter, 2004] focuses on IS risk factors and how these factors can be organized.
This article starts by identifying criteria for …