An optimal coupling incentive mechanism concerning insider's compliance behavior towards marine information security policy

Abstract

It is widely agreed that the insider's noncompliance to the marine information security policies has brought about a major security problem in the organizational context. Previous research has stressed the potential of remunerative control, i.e., reward, to better understand this problem. Few studies have been devoted to the exploration of the coupling incentive mechanism of tangible and intangible rewards that would induce insider's compliance behavior towards the marine information security policy. In the present study, we address this research gap by proposing a theoretical model that explains the optimal coupling incentive mechanism of these two different types of remunerative control. Our findings have delivered insightful implications for practice and research on how to improve the marine information security policy compliance in a more subtle way.