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Abstract
The ability to use mobile technologies anywhere and anytime has driven an important dark side known in this article as Mobile Technology Addiction (MTA). Here, we extend insights on this phenomenon by building on S–O-R theory and focusing on stimuli (flow and telepresence), organisms (mobile technology addiction), and responses (risky behaviours). This study conceptualised the moderating role of use-regulation between MTA and risky behaviours. Based on a study in the unique context of a developing country, this study adopted a stratified random sampling technique. The questionnaire was deployed through online and offline survey methods to select 528 participants from a developing country in which most internet interactions are done via mobile devices. It was found that MTA drives risky behaviours, but IS use-regulation minimises this effect. The findings provide important implications for theory and practice.
期刊介绍：
The interdisciplinary interfaces of Information Systems (IS) are fast emerging as defining areas of research and development in IS. These developments are largely due to the transformation of Information Technology (IT) towards networked worlds and its effects on global communications and economies. While these developments are shaping the way information is used in all forms of human enterprise, they are also setting the tone and pace of information systems of the future. The major advances in IT such as client/server systems, the Internet and the desktop/multimedia computing revolution, for example, have led to numerous important vistas of research and development with considerable practical impact and academic significance. While the industry seeks to develop high performance IS/IT solutions to a variety of contemporary information support needs, academia looks to extend the reach of IS technology into new application domains. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) aims to provide a common forum of dissemination of frontline industrial developments of substantial academic value and pioneering academic research of significant practical impact.
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