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The Status Quo of Neurophysiology in Organizational Technostress Research: A Review of Studies Published from 1978 to 2015

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We report on the status quo of neurophysiology in organizational technostress research, showing how neurophysiological tools have been applied in technostress studies with a focus on the organizational level of analysis. Based on a review of research published in peer-reviewed journals, we found that neurophysiological tools have seen relatively frequent application, particularly in early technostress studies (1970–1990s), but have since then been on the decline. We also found that contemporary organizational technostress research relies heavily on survey-based approaches to study the nature, causes, and effects of this phenomenon, almost completely neglecting prior successful applications of neurophysiological tools.

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Notes

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    Google Scholar search of the term “technostress” on 02/13/2015. Note though that we did not formulate the requirement that a publication must have at least five citations to be included in our study (see [18]).

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    Though the measurement of hormones and related biological substances (D) could be subsumed in category (C) as another source of physiological data, we created an own category for this data source due to differences in the underlying research methodology (for details, see a recent paper by Riedl et al. [33]).

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    Thomas Fischer & René Riedl

  2. University of Linz, Linz, Austria

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  3. University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

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Fischer, T., Riedl, R. (2015). The Status Quo of Neurophysiology in Organizational Technostress Research: A Review of Studies Published from 1978 to 2015. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18702-0_2

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