Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as reversed IT adoption: Insights into managers' coping strategies.

ABSTRACT: The adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), initiated by employees, refers to the provision and use of personal mobile devices and applications for both private and business purposes. This bottom-up phenomenon, not initiated by managers, corresponds to a reversed IT adoption logic that simultaneously entails business opportunities and threats. Managers are thus confronted with this unchosen BYOD usage by employees and consequently adopt different coping strategies. This research aims to investigate the adaptation strategies embraced by managers to cope with the BYOD phenomenon. To this end, we operationalized the coping model of user adaptation (CMUA) in the organizational decision-making context to conduct a survey addressing 337 top managers. Our main results indicate that the impact o

SUBMITTER: Barlette Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484736 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature