Cultivating proactive information security behavior and individual creativity: The role of human relations culture and IT use governance

This study developed the concept of proactive information security behavior and examined its connections with individual creativity and two organizational context factors: human relations culture (values and beliefs that promote participation and autonomy in decision-making) and IT use governance. Reliability and validity of this construct were tested with survey data. Findings of this study support its positive relationship with individual creativity, human relations culture, and IT use governance, and show partial mediation effects of individual creativity on the relationships between human relations culture and IT use governance, and proactive information security behavior. Theoretical and practice implications are discussed.