The effects of voluntary GDPR adoption and the readability of privacy statements on customers’ information disclosure intention and trust

Dr Yibo Zhang joined the faculty of the Farmer School of Business in the fall semester of 2018. His teaching interests include accounting information systems, managerial accounting and financial accounting. Dr Zhang’s primary research interest is judgment and decision making in accounting information systems. Special areas of interest include: digital annual reports, social media, dashboard presentations in auditing and cloud computing. Dr Zhang earned the PhD Degree from Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy at the University of South Florida, and he is a CPA (Texas), CMA and SAP Certified Associate.

Dr Tawei Wang received the PhD Degree from Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University in 2009. His research interests are information security management and IT management. His papers have appeared in several leading journals, including Information Systems Research, Accounting Horizons, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Management, Information Systems Journal, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Information Systems, among others. He mainly teaches analytics and data mining and has been invited by universities and conferences around the world to discuss curriculum design and teaching strategies. He was Speaker and Facilitator at a Chief Audit Executive Roundtable about Analytics hosted by the Institute of Internal Auditors. He was also selected to be the KPMG James Marwick Professor in Residence in 2018.

Dr Carol Hsu is Distinguished Professor in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Tongji University. She holds the PhD Degree in information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her current research interest focuses on the organizational and behavioral issues related to IS security policy implementation. Her work has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and others. She currently serves as Senior Editor at the Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Information Systems Journal, as an Associate Editor at Information & Management, and on the editorial board of the Journal of the AIS, and the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.