News
REPRICON closing conference held
The closing conference of the Consumer Resilience to Online Privacy Violation (REPRICON) research project, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, was held on November 24, 2023, at the Institute of the Economics, Zagreb.
As was announced earlier, REPRICON book was presented during the conference, and it is now available online for download on our website HERE.
More detailed information on the closing conference is available HERE.
REPRICON research project e-book presentation
On Friday, November 24, 2023, at 10 a.m., the closing conference related to the Consumer Resilience to Online Privacy Violation (REPRICON) research project will be held at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb.
The REPRICON project is a four-year project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, whose aim was to examine the resilience of internet users after they had experienced a violation of their privacy online.
The results of REPRICON research, conducted at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, will be presented by the head of the research project, Jelena Budak, PhD, who will also present an electronic book about the project on that occasion.
The conference will host notable lecturers and experts dealing with related topics of consumer resilience, data protection, and digital piracy. The issue of privacy protection and security online will be addressed from different aspects as part of the panel discussion.
You can find more details about the conference and the panelists in the attached program.
Jelena Budak holds an invited lecture at the 9th REDETE conference
REPRICON team member Jelena Budak held an invited lecture at the 9th REDETE conference in Ancona, taking place from September 15 -16, 2022. At the lecture under the title "Consumer online behavior in the European digital agenda context: should we rely on a privacy paradox?", she presented her paper co-authored with Edo Rajh. Presentation of the paper is available at this link.
Paper presented at the conference “FEB Zagreb 2022, 13th International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business”
A paper by Bruno Škrinjarić, Jelena Budak and Edo Rajh, Consumers’ Attitudes Change in Response to Privacy Violation Online Incident, was presented at the conference “FEB Zagreb 2022, 13th International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business” held online and in Dubrovnik on June 1 - 6, 2022. Presentation of the paper is available here.
Paper written as part of the REPRICON project presented at CPDP conference
Bruno Škrinjarić, member of the team on the project "Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON", presented research results at the conference "Computers, Privacy and Data protection - CPDP2022", held in Brussels on May 25, 2022. He presented the paper under the title 'Citizens resilience to online privacy violation and use of digital public services' that was written as part of the REPRICON project and in co-authorship with Sunčana Slijepčević and Edo Rajh.
REPRICON team publishes paper in EIZ Working Papers
REPRICON team members, Bruno Škrinjarić, Jelena Budak and Edo Rajh, published the working paper "Change of consumers’ attitudes in response to an online privacy violation incident" in the latest edition of EIZ Working Papers.The paper examines consumers’ attitudes towards the Internet and consumer behavior after they had experienced an online privacy violation incident. This issue is assessed by applying the concept of resilience and coping strategies in reaction to stress. The focus of this empirical research is change in consumers’ attitudes and behavior online. Our analysis is performed on a survey data collected from Croatian Internet users who had experienced online privacy violation. The model was estimated by OLS and order probit method.
The publication can be accessed at the Institute's website here.
Paper written as part of REPRICON project presented at REDETE conference
Project manager of the “Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON” project Jelena Budak held a presentation on September 3, 2021 as part of the keynotes plenary discussion at the Researching Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies - REDETE Conference in Niš. She presented the paper “Resilience to Online Privacy Violation: The Role of Socio-Demographic Attributes”, written as part of the REPRICON project.
You can access the presentation here.
REPRICON team publishes paper in EIZ Working Papers
Jelena Budak, the project manager of the “Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON” project, and research associates Edo Rajh, Sunčana Slijepčević and Bruno Škrinjarić published the working paper “Theoretical concepts of consumer resilience to online privacy violation” in the latest edition of EIZ Working Papers.
The working paper aims to elaborate the theoretical concepts that might be applied in the research of consumer resilience to online privacy violation, a new and unexplored aspect of consumer behavior in the digital environment. It contributes to the privacy resilience debate and lays the groundwork for developing a conceptual model of online consumer resilience that would explore how individual behavior is affected after online privacy violation occurrence.
This working paper was made as a part of REPRICON project, funded by Croatian Science Foundation and you can access it at the Institute's website here.
Kick-off meeting for the “Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON” project held
On January 31, 2020 the Institute of Economics, Zagreb (EIZ) hosted a kick-off meeting for the “Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON” project. The project is funded by Croatian Science Foundation.
Jelena Budak, project manager, and research associates Edo Rajh, Bruno Škrinjarić, Sunčana Slijepčević, Zvjezdan Penezić and Šime Lugović attended the meeting.
After a brief introduction, an agreement was reached on the dynamics of implementation of the activities planned in the first year of the project.
The meeting marked the official start of the implementation of the activities at the "Consumer Resistance to Online Privacy Breach - REPRICON" project.
Implementation of the project "Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON" started
On January 3, 2020, the Institute of Economics, Zagreb started with the implementation of the project "Consumer resilience to online privacy violation - REPRICON". The project was awarded at the end of 2019 and is financially supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the call "Research projects, IP-2019-04". The project will run until January 2, 2024.
You can read more about the project at this link.