Managing cyber-attacks – The construction and organization of corporate digital responsibility in Swedish companies

The project wants to understand the social construction and organisation of digital responsibility of digitally active companies.

To this end, it does not longer view organisations as recipients of societal expectations and regulations or victims of cyber-attacks. It perceives them as creators of digital responsibility.

This theoretical shift is important to overcome a static approach to the digital responsibility of companies and to develop a process approach in which organisations can learn from the (un)intended consequences of digital (non-)responsibility and develop a proactive attitude towards digital demands.

The core project team consists of a project leader and a participating researcher from business administration but also a doctoral student from business informatics.

A reference group established alongside the project involves other disciplines and secures the perspective of further national and international stakeholders.

Between 2022 and 2024, the project uses a mix method approach which combines expert interviews about cyber-accidents, a qualitative multi-case study with quantitative data from a survey among digitally active companies in Sweden.