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The technological construction of reality (2024)
Book
Demetis, D. S., & Angell, I. (2024). The technological construction of reality. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101199

This visionary book delves into the world-shaping abilities of modern technology, outlining the potential future transformations that it may impose. By drawing from a range of scholarly insights, Dionysios S. Demetis and Ian O. Angell explore how tec... Read More about The technological construction of reality.

Cybercrime: Understanding the Current State of Literature and Issues Facing CISOs (2024)
Journal Article
Ferreira, C., Park, A., Kietzmann, J., Demetis, D., Flostrand, A., Mccarthy, I., Pitt, L., & Dabirian, A. (2024). Cybercrime: Understanding the Current State of Literature and Issues Facing CISOs. IT Professional, 26(2), 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2024.3375571

The meteoric rise in cybercrime in recent years has resulted in renewed efforts to stem the potential negative effects of these nefarious activities. In this context, the role of the chief information security officer (CISO) has become one of strateg... Read More about Cybercrime: Understanding the Current State of Literature and Issues Facing CISOs.

Value Sinks: A Process Theory of Corruption Risk during Complex Organizing (2023)
Journal Article
Hazy, J. K., Lichtenstein, B., Demetis, D. S., Backström, T., & Dooley, K. J. (2023). Value Sinks: A Process Theory of Corruption Risk during Complex Organizing. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 27(3), 319-350

Theories and studies of corruption typically focus on individual ethics and agency problems in organizations. In this paper, we use concepts from complexity science to propose a process theory that describes how corruption risk emerges from condition... Read More about Value Sinks: A Process Theory of Corruption Risk during Complex Organizing.

Organised crime - the cyber dimension (2023)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. (2023). Organised crime - the cyber dimension. In B. Rider (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Organised Crime (177-194). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201369.00014

This chapter reviews a few critical technological developments and reflects both on their trajectory and on the opportunities they harbour for novel forms of cyber-enabled criminality. While the future of organised crime remains forever out of grasp,... Read More about Organised crime - the cyber dimension.

House of Cards: developing KPIs for monitoring cybersecurity awareness (CSA) (2023)
Journal Article
Alshammari, M. M., & Demetis, D. S. (2023). House of Cards: developing KPIs for monitoring cybersecurity awareness (CSA). Journal of Information Systems Security, 19(2), 133-161

Non-malicious insider threats continue to pose a significant concern to an organisation’s cybersecurity defence strategy, yet organisations still struggle to contain such insider threats. A critical pillar for doing so rests on the development and mo... Read More about House of Cards: developing KPIs for monitoring cybersecurity awareness (CSA).

Interoperability: Our exciting and terrifying Web3 future (2022)
Journal Article
Park, A., Wilson, M., Robson, K., Demetis, D., & Kietzmann, J. (2022). Interoperability: Our exciting and terrifying Web3 future. Business Horizons, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.10.005

This article introduces the next major generational evolution of the web: Web3. We review the fundamental evolution of the internet and the web over the past three decades, including a brief presentation of the publications in Business Horizons that... Read More about Interoperability: Our exciting and terrifying Web3 future.

The Big Interview: How Money Laundering Works (2021)
Journal Article
Demetis, D. (2021). The Big Interview: How Money Laundering Works. Itnow, 63(3), 41-43. https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwab083

How and why do cyber criminals hide their money's source? Dr Dionysios Demetis, Senior Lecturer in Management Systems at Hull University, explains.

Hello Quantum! How Quantum Computing Will Change the World (2021)
Journal Article
Kietzmann, J., Demetis, D. S., Eriksson, T., & Dabirian, A. (2021). Hello Quantum! How Quantum Computing Will Change the World. IT Professional, 23(4), 106-111. https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2021.3086917

Re-thinking de-risking: a systems theoretical approach (2021)
Journal Article
Tambe, N., & Demetis, D. (in press). Re-thinking de-risking: a systems theoretical approach. Journal of Money Laundering Control, https://doi.org/10.1108/JMLC-04-2021-0030

Purpose: This paper aims to explain the de-risking phenomenon through Luhmann’s risk/danger model and demonstrate that de-risking should be facilitated and encouraged. Design/methodology/approach: The paper applies Luhmann’s system theory and more sp... Read More about Re-thinking de-risking: a systems theoretical approach.

Online child sexual exploitation: a new MIS challenge (2021)
Journal Article
Demetis, D. S., & Kietzmann, J. (2021). Online child sexual exploitation: a new MIS challenge. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 22(1), 5-40. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00652

© 2021, Association for Information Systems. All rights reserved. This paper deals with the difficult yet increasingly important MIS phenomenon of online child sexual exploitation (online CSE). Through the use of secondary and publicly available data... Read More about Online child sexual exploitation: a new MIS challenge.