Gurpreet Dhillon

Dr Gurpreet Dhillon BSc (Hons), MBA, MSc (Econ), PhD (MIS) is a MIS professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics (University of London). His research interests lie at the interface of strategic management and IS/IT use. The application domain of his research has covered information security, computer crime and fraud. In recent years he has also been studying the causes of IT failures within organizations. His research has been widely published in numerous journals including Communications of the ACM, Computers & Security, European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of End User Computing, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Topics in Health Information Management, Health Management Research among others. He is the author of the book 'Managing information system security' (Macmillan, 1997). He also serves as Vice President Publications for the Information Resources Management Association.

Publications

From Adoption to Routinization of B2B e-Commerce: Understanding Patterns across Europe
Tiago Oliveira, Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2016. 21 pages.
The authors present an in depth understanding of B2B e-commerce adoption and routinization across Europe. The research was informed by the technology, organization, and...
From Adoption to Routinization of B2B e-Commerce: Understanding Patterns Across Europe
Tiago Oliveira, Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2015. 20 pages.
The authors present an in depth understanding of B2B e-commerce adoption and routinization across Europe. The research was informed by the technology, organization, and...
Disassociations in Security Policy Lifecycles
Michael Lapke, Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2015. 16 pages.
Continued high profile security breaches indicate that Information Systems Security remains a significant problem within organizations. The authors argue that one of the major...
The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act on Information Security
Sushma Mishra, Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2008. 16 pages.
This chapter discusses the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act on corporate information security governance practices. The resultant regulatory intervention forces a company to...
The Clinical Information System: A Case of Misleading Design Decisions
Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2006. 15 pages.
The case study described in this chapter concerns the introduction of a new computer based integrated Clinical Information System (CIS) into a British National Health Services...
The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act on Information Security
Gurpreet Dhillon, Sushma Mishra. © 2006. 18 pages.
This chapter discusses the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act on corporate information security governance practices. The resultant regulatory intervention forces a company to...
Integrating Digital Signatures with Relational Databases: Issues and Organizational Implications
Randal Reid, Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2003. 10 pages.
This paper explores the nature and scope of integration of digital signatures with relational databases, such as integration is essential if Internet commerce is to succeed....
Internet Privacy: Interpreting Key Issues
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, Trevor T. Moores. © 2003. 10 pages.
The phenomenal growth in Internet commerce in recent years has brought privacy concerns to the fore. Although privacy as a concept has been well understood with respect to brick...
Chaos Theory as a Framework for Studying Information Systems
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, John Ward. © 2003. 18 pages.
This paper introduces Chaos Theory as a means of studying information systems. It argues that Chaos Theory, combined with new techniques for discovering patterns in complex...
Social Responsibility in the Information Age: Issues and Controversies
Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2002. 282 pages.
Within the book Social Responsibility in the Information Age: Issues and Controversies , the term “society” refers to the world at large, nations, cultures within nations, and...
Chaos Theory as a Framework for Studying Information Systems
Gurpreet Dhillon, John Ward. © 2002. 13 pages.
This paper introduces Chaos Theory as a means of studying information systems. It argues that Chaos Theory, combined with new techniques for discovering patterns in complex...
The Problem of Networked Organizations in India: A Case Study
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, Trevor T. Moores, Ray Hackney. © 2002. 9 pages.
We present a potential misalignment that many emerging economies may face with respect to the advent of networked organizations. We argue that although it may seem that networked...
Internet Privacy: Interpreting Key Issues
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, Trevor T. Moores. © 2002. 9 pages.
The phenomenal growth in Internet commerce in recent years has brought privacy concerns to the fore. Although privacy as a concept has been well understood with respect to brick...
Understanding Social Responsibility Issues in the Information Age
Gurpreet S. Dhillon. © 2002. 11 pages.
So, you are taking a trip and have booked your flight, paid your bills, bought a travel insurance and made hotel bookings–all without talking to a single person. Of course, you...
Internet Privacy: Interpreting Key Issues
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, Trevor T. Moores. © 2002. 9 pages.
The Internet has transformed the way in which goods are bought and sold. Forrester Research predicts retail sales on the Internet to grow from less than 1% in 1999 to 6% by 2003....
Privacy and the Internet: The Case of the DoubleClick, Inc.
Scott Chapman, Gurpreet S. Dhillon. © 2002. 14 pages.
With the advent of the Internet, a number of issues have surfaced that are affecting our society positively, negatively and confusingly at breakneck speeds. The issues...
Aspects of a Viable Social Responsibility Program in the Information Age
Gurpreet S. Dhillon. © 2002. 7 pages.
Various chapters in this book have addressed a broad range of social responsibility issues. In many ways, each chapter has identified a category of social responsibility concerns...
Information Security Management: Global Challenges in the New Millennium
Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2001. 364 pages.
Information security is moving much higher up the agenda of corporate concerns. The pitfalls lying in wait of corporate information are legion. If information is our most...
Internet Privacy: Interpreting Key Issues
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, Trevor T. Moores. © 2001. 5 pages.
The phenomenal growth in Internet commerce in recent years has brought privacy concerns to the fore. Although privacy as a concept has been well understood with respect to brick...
The Emergence of Networked Organizations in India: A Misalignment of Interests?
Gurpreet Dhillon, Trevor Moores, Ray Hackney. © 2001. 6 pages.
We present a potential misalignment that many emerging economies may face with respect to the advent of networked organisations. We argue that although it may seem that networked...
Challenges in Managing Information Security in the New Millennium
Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2001. 8 pages.
In the past decade two developments have brought information security management issues to the fore. First has been the increased dependence of organizations on information and...
Principles for Managing Information Security in the New Millennium
Gurpreet Dhillon. © 2001. 5 pages.
This chapter sketches out three classes of principles. Following a brief description of the class, each principle is elaborated and suggestions made thereof as to its...
Strategic Information Systems Planning: Perspectives on the Role of the “End User” Revisited
Ray Hackney, John Kawalek, Gurpreet Dhillon. © 1999. 10 pages.
Discussions on the formulation and implementation of strategic information systems and associated planning (SISP) has focused attention on the importance of the utilisation of...
The Clinical Information System: A Case of Misleading Design Decisions
Gurpreet Dhillon. © 1997. 13 pages.
The case study described in this chapter concerns the introduction of a new computer based integrated Clinical Information System (CIS) into a British National Health Services...