An Institutional Perspective on Cybercrimes

Nir Kshetri

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Global Cybercrime Industry, 2010, pp 57-74 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are persuasive arguments for thinking that institutional processes have enormous power to explain cyberattacks. This chapter examines how macro- and micro-level institutions provide regulative, normative, and cognitive legitimacy to hackers’, organizations’, and governments’ actions that facilitate or hinder cyberattacks. More specifically, we analyze institutions at supra-national, national, professional, industry, organizational, informal network, and intra-organizational levels in terms of their impacts on cyberinfrastructure, network, and computer attacks.

Keywords: Institutions; Cyberattack; Neoinstitutionalism; Isomorphism; Political cognitive effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11522-6_3

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