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The Fear of Losing the Business

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Abstract

The individual fears around digital transformation also carry the danger of expanding into institutional fears, as managers and decision makers struggle with how changes will affect the flow of business. This can result in further willful blindness, and can stem from some very long-held assumptions.

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    The Queensbury Rules were originally drafted as a code of conduct for the sport of boxing in the mid-1800s but is also used as an idiom to describe standard rules of polite or acceptable behavior. It would be naïve to expect cybercriminals to follow them.

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Prentice, S. (2022). The Fear of Losing the Business. In: The Future of Workplace Fear. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8101-7_11

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