IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/74891.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Bring your own device philosophy from the user's perspective: an empirical investigation

Author

Listed:
  • Chountalas, Panos
  • Karagiorgos, Athanasios

Abstract

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a new trend topic, the IT management has to deal with. It enables the employees to use their own smart phones, tablets or other IT devices for business purposes (i.e. to access corporate applications or manage corporate data). Today, there is a considerable increase in organizations adopting the BYOD philosophy and consequently the debate about the costs, gains and risks is in full swing. The purpose of this study is to provide insights into the use of the BYOD philosophy, in terms of its perceived benefits and threats. To attain our goal, an empirical investigation was conducted of 156 BYOD’s users. The results of this study indicate that BYOD is considered as a fairly innovative philosophy that brings some substantial benefits, such as an increase on both the mobility and flexibility at work. On the other hand, upon the use of BYOD, employees seem to be highly concerned about the privacy of their data. They are also afraid that they will be forced to work beyond their normal working hours. Since BYOD's use was typically perceived as non-complex, most employees stated that they were attracted by organizations that adopt the BYOD philosophy. This indicates that, as far as the employees are concerned, the BYOD's benefits outperform the threats.

Suggested Citation

  • Chountalas, Panos & Karagiorgos, Athanasios, 2015. "Bring your own device philosophy from the user's perspective: an empirical investigation," MPRA Paper 74891, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:74891
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/74891/1/MPRA_paper_74891.pdf
    File Function: original version
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/81800/1/MPRA_paper_81800.pdf
    File Function: revised version
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jennifer Imazeki, 2014. "Bring-Your-Own-Device: Turning Cell Phones into Forces for Good," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(3), pages 240-250, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Wolfe, Marketa Halova, 2020. "Integrating data analysis into an introductory macroeconomics course," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 33(C).
    2. Johnson, Marianne & Meder, Martin E., 2024. "Twenty-three years of teaching economics with technology," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 45(C).
    3. Martha L. Olney, 2016. "Explaining "In the Aggregate" Concepts with Clickers," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 1(2), pages 71-90, December.
    4. Jones, Michael D. & Baltzersen, Max, 2017. "Using twitter for economics business case discussions in large lectures," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 26(C), pages 14-18.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Bring Your Own Device (BYOD); IT management; mobile marketing; innovativeness; flexibility at work; privacy of data.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M15 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - IT Management

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:74891. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joachim Winter (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/vfmunde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.