Effects of data breaches from user-generated content: A corporate reputation analysis

Ilenia Confente, Giorgia Giusi Siciliano, Barbara Gaudenzi and Matthias Eickhoff

European Management Journal, 2019, vol. 37, issue 4, 492-504

Abstract: A threat for a growing number of firms in various industries is the occurrence of different breaches of sensitive corporate data. These critical events represent vulnerability for firms' corporate reputations, whose multiple dimensions are affected by customers negative perceptions in various ways. Further, in the Industry 4.0 era, the redundancy of scandals on social media can exacerbate negative effects. This paper reports an investigation into the effects of data breaches on corporate reputation dimensions. In this context, the study conducted latent Dirichlet allocation analysis on social media user-generated content (UGC) for a sample of 35 firms in nine industries that suffered a data breach incident between 2013 and 2016. Incidents have been categorized into three categories: “intentional and internal,” “unintentional and internal,” and “intentional and external” data breaches. The aim of the study was to discover how reputational dimensions changed after these critical events and to identify the differences among the types of data breaches.

Keywords: Corporate reputation; Data breach; User-generated content; Latent Dirichlet allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2019.01.007

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