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Spreadsheets: risk from the shadow

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  • Lazar Raković
  • Marton Sakal
  • Stojanka Dakić
  • Jovica Đurković

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The aim of the paper was to look into the degree of awareness among end users of the existence of spreadsheet risks. A systematic overview of literature resulted in identifying research questions, to which answers were given by analysing data gathered by means of a field survey. The research included 161 respondents. Despite the opinion that spreadsheets are very important for performing their tasks to a significant extent, the respondents think that their use is not combined to a significant extent with risks such as errors, credibility, security, data abuse, and poor analysis that may result in making wrong decisions, lack of version control, inadequate qualifications of users, lack of spreadsheet development guidelines, loss of data, breach of legal regulations, and unauthorised access to data. The majority of organisations where the respondents are employed do not possess defined spreadsheet risk management strategies, nor have adopted standards and rules for spreadsheet use.

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  • Lazar Raković & Marton Sakal & Stojanka Dakić & Jovica Đurković, 2022. "Spreadsheets: risk from the shadow," International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 41(1), pages 1-19.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:41:y:2022:i:1:p:1-19
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    spreadsheet; risk; shadow IT.;
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