Risk of Cyberattacks Arising from Strategic Alliances with Big Tech

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lee, Jong Seok
• 署名单位: University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0742-1222
• DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2025.2520176
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 859-893
• 关键词: RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; information-systems resources; Security investments; Intangible assets; EMPIRICAL-TEST; CAPABILITY; management; TECHNOLOGY; spillovers; COOPERATION

摘要

This research theorizes and documents for the first time a cyber risk that may arise from strategic alliances with Big Tech, a grouping of the most dominant companies in the information technology industry. This research proposes that alliances with Big Tech tend to involve leveraging and integrating Big Tech's innovative technological capabilities into a focal firm's data management, operations, products, or services. This process can be understood as an inter-organizational system of systems integration and is presented as a mechanism that makes focal firms vulnerable to external cyberattacks. In addition, this research theorizes and shows that the effect of strategic alliances with Big Tech on the risk of cyberattacks is not linear; instead, it increases up to a certain point and then starts decreasing. Finally, this research suggests that intangible asset intensity strengthens the relationship between strategic alliances with Big Tech and the risk of cyberattacks. The findings of this research provide timely and important insights into cyber risks arising from strategic alliances centered on integrating systems and technologies across partner firms' boundaries.