The Role of Strong Cultures to Information Security Management: A Goal Setting Perspective

The aim of this research is to investigate the role of strong organizational cultures in setting information systems security goals. In doing so, it explores and discusses the concept of strong culture within three financial organizations with different social organizational structures and seeks to demonstrate the importance of having a strong culture in setting efficiently information security goals. The determinants of a strong organizational culture are also discussed. This research contributes to interpretive information systems research with the study of strong culture and goal setting in a security management context and its grounding within an interpretive epistemology. Complete Research Paper