Paper Type
Short
Paper Number
PACIS2025-1503
Description
Organizations embed themselves in digital technology collaboration networks to access external digital technology resources, enabling them to navigate the intense competition of the digital era. Grounded in embeddedness theory, this study explores how structural embeddedness (i.e., organization’s central position) influences cybersecurity risks within digital technology collaboration networks, moderated by relational embeddedness (i.e., direct and indirect tie asymmetry). By emphasizing dual mechanisms of benefits and costs, this study posits an inverted U-shaped relationship between an organization’s central position and its cybersecurity risks. Notably, direct tie asymmetry amplifies both benefits and costs, while indirect tie asymmetry enhances benefits while mitigating costs within digital technology collaboration networks. Consequently, both factors flatten the inverted U-shaped curve, but they shift the turning point in opposite directions. This study will offer valuable insights for firms identifying and managing cybersecurity risks in digital technology collaboration networks, thereby promoting sustainable digital technology collaboration.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Aihui; Zhang, Yini; and Feng, Nan, "The Dual Impact of Digital Technology Collaboration Network on Cybersecurity Risk: From the Perspective of Embeddedness" (2025). PACIS 2025 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2025/security/security/1
The Dual Impact of Digital Technology Collaboration Network on Cybersecurity Risk: From the Perspective of Embeddedness
Organizations embed themselves in digital technology collaboration networks to access external digital technology resources, enabling them to navigate the intense competition of the digital era. Grounded in embeddedness theory, this study explores how structural embeddedness (i.e., organization’s central position) influences cybersecurity risks within digital technology collaboration networks, moderated by relational embeddedness (i.e., direct and indirect tie asymmetry). By emphasizing dual mechanisms of benefits and costs, this study posits an inverted U-shaped relationship between an organization’s central position and its cybersecurity risks. Notably, direct tie asymmetry amplifies both benefits and costs, while indirect tie asymmetry enhances benefits while mitigating costs within digital technology collaboration networks. Consequently, both factors flatten the inverted U-shaped curve, but they shift the turning point in opposite directions. This study will offer valuable insights for firms identifying and managing cybersecurity risks in digital technology collaboration networks, thereby promoting sustainable digital technology collaboration.
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