France BelangerTilahun Muluneh2025-02-082025-02-082017-02-01https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4137Nowadays, it becomes clear that information systems security (ISS) is one of the most important issues that organizations need to focus on. Despite huge investments made by companies to keep their information systems (IS) safe, there are many ISS breaches that infiltrate companies’ systems and consequently, these cost their reputation, affect customers’ confidence, and bring huge financial losses. Ethiopian companies are not immune to the ISS problem and there are some signs of ISS breaches. The ISS literature suggests that almost all investments in ISS related issues are for technological solutions. However, this type of solutions alone does not work well, and according to some researchers, there is one significant element that has been given very little attention, the human factor. Most of the ISS breaches are caused by employees who are the legitimate users of organizations’ IS. So “how can we counter the illegal action of our own employees?” is the main agenda this research tries to address. Many researchers advocate the use of deterrence mechanisms to decrease the employees’ noncompliance problem. Despite these findings, there is a lot of research output that reported the inability of the deterrent countermeasures alone to protect IS from security breaches. And more importantly, some researchers point out that different cultures require different ISS interventions. Interestingly, in the last decade, some researchers have studied how culture can influence people’s intention towards ISSP (information systems security policy) compliance. However, most of the current ISS (information systems security) studies assume that deterrent countermeasures’ effect is uniform across countries and culture. This situation identifies a gap that needs to be bridged, and this study address the issue by raising the question “To what extent, if any, national culture moderates the influence of formal iv sanctions, perceived benefits, moral beliefs, and shame on employees’ intention to violate ISSP?” We use survey method to collect data and SPSS Amos to conduct SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) based data analysis. Finally, we get results that show the moderating impact of national culture on the influence of formal sanctions, perceived benefits, moral beliefs, and shame on employees’ intention to violate ISSP.enGeneral Deterrence Theory (GDT)Information Systems Security (ISS)Information Systems Security Policy (ISSP)Intention to Violate ISSPInsidersNational CultureRational Choice Theory (RCT).Thesis