Distinguished Professor France Belanger, Virginia Tech
7th November 2024, 10am
DigiSAS Lab, UTS has invited Professor France Belanger to conduct an online research seminar for academia and industry participants on the timely topic of “Achieving Organisational Privacy Agility & Resiliency”.
Join us at: https://zoom.uts.edu.au/j/87333505059
Abstract
The continuous challenges organizations face in navigating the intricate landscape of information privacy amid evolving regulatory frameworks, dynamic consumer preferences, and technological disruptions underscore the complex nature of organizational functioning, including privacy. While acknowledging data privacy’s strategic significance, its effective and strategic implementation is still limited, with many organizations following a compliance-focused approach. Organizations must recognize the need for agility and resilience in the face of privacy disruptions. Based on our detailed analyses of interviews with 18 privacy leaders from around the world, we develop a model of organizational privacy agility and resilience that suggest a synergetic combination of effective privacy leadership, robust privacy systems, and a mature privacy culture are needed to achieve organizational privacy agility and resilience. We discuss how organizations can adapt and endure in an ever-evolving landscape of data privacy by responding to digital opportunities and absorbing privacy-related shocks. Our model contributes novel insights to the under-researched domain of organizational information privacy literature, providing a guiding framework for effectively implementing strategic privacy initiatives. For practitioners, it offers a tool to convey the challenges and goals associated with organizational privacy, fostering a deeper understanding of privacy management and its implications. Ultimately, it serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners alike, enhancing comprehension of how organizations can successfully navigate the multifaceted terrain of privacy management.
Speaker Bio:
France Bélanger, PhD, is Eminent Scholar and University Distinguished Professor, R. B. Pamplin Professor, and Tom & Daisy Byrd Senior Faculty Fellow in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. She is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. France’s research focuses on digital interactions between individuals, businesses, and governments and the related cybersecurity and privacy issues. She is widely published in leading journals, including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal for Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and many others. She is ranked in several most cited author lists and received several international research awards, including the 2020 Lifetime Academic Achievement Award from the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management. In 2022, Woxsen University (India) honored her academic career by funding the France Bélanger Chair in Information Systems. She has served as Senior or Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, among others. She is on the Distinguished Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Information Management. Her work has been funded for more than US$1.5 million by agencies, institutes, corporations, and research centers, including the National Science Foundation. She was named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 2006 (Portugal), Erskine Fellow in 2009 (New Zealand), KoMePol-IT Fellow in 2017 (Germany), and Visiting Professorial Fellow 2020-2022 (Australia). In 2022, she co-launched an outreach program called ‘Voices of Privacy’ to educate society about information privacy issues and solutions.
