Dr Dionysios Demetis

Dr Dionysios Demetis

Reader in Management Systems

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • Hull University Business School

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Summary

Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Reader in management systems at the Hull University Business School.

He is also Vice-Chair of the Humber Business Resilience Forum which promotes a secure Humber region by enhancing the cybersecurity of its businesses.

Dr Demetis holds a PhD on anti-money laundering and information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He is the author of two books and numerous other publications while his research on anti-money laundering has been featured in the United Nations bibliography and received funding from the European Commission. He is a Senior Editor at the Journal of Information Systems Security.

He has received a best paper award from the 4* listed Journal of the Association for Information Systems and a Best Publication Award from the Senior Scholars of AIS.

Recent outputs

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Book

The technological construction of reality

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

Book Chapter

Organised crime - the cyber dimension

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

Journal Article

The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership

Flostrand, A., Park, A., Demetis, D., Kietzmann, J., Pitt, L., & McCarthy, I. (2025). The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership. MIT Sloan Management Review, 66(3),

Cybercrime: Understanding the Current State of Literature and Issues Facing CISOs

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

Value Sinks: A Process Theory of Corruption Risk during Complex Organizing

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

Research interests

Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Systems Theory, 2nd order cybernetics

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Sponsorship - Systems thinking

Funder

DEFRA

Grant

£13,222.00

Started

1 October 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

Thinking beyond the can': Mainstreaming UK beans in healthy meals (BeanMeals)

Funder

BBSRC Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Counc

Grant

£227,723.00

Started

5 April 2022

Status

Complete

Project

Understanding Boundary Judgment Dilemmas in Global Food Security Projects

Funder

University of Oxford

Grant

£15,200.00

Started

1 August 2018

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

KTP R4 2022-23 Adopting a Circular Economy Business Model for Resource Efficiency in ICT industry (ACE4ICT)

Funder

Innovate UK

Grant

£89,238.00

Started

3 July 2023

Status

Ongoing

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Demetis welcomes applications in - Anti-money laundering - Information systems (including cybersecurity from a social science perspective) Current PhD supervisions - Mohammad Al Shammari - Nadia K. Samara - Noemi Tambe

Awards and prizes

AIS Best Information Systems Publication Award

2022

Best Paper Award - Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)

2021

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