Hasan Cavusoglu

Hasan Cavusoglu, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of MIS

Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C.
V6T 1Z2



 

Hasan Cavusoglu is an assistant professor of MIS in Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He has a B.S. degree from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey).

CV  

 


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TEACHING  

Courses that I teach:


BAIT 510, Managing Business Information Technology Projects (MBA)

BAIT 511, Managing Information Technology (MBA)

BAIT 511.30x, Managing Information Technology (Part-time MBA)

BAIT 580A-B, Special Topics in MIS (Economics of IS) (Ph.D. Seminar)

COMM 438, Management of Information Systems (Undergraduate)

COMM 636, MIS Workshop [often co-organized with Carson Woo or Andrew Burton Jones] (Graduate)
 

RESEARCH  

 


IS Economics:

  • Analyzing the value of IT investments
  • Economic analysis of the value of customization and versioning
  • Cost- benefit analysis of information security


IS Policy:

  • Analyzing the impact of vulnerability disclosure
  • When to release and distribute software patches

Research Funding:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC): Using information security awareness to manage the human aspect of information security ($98,655 total).  2008 – 2011.
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC): Information Security Program as the driver of information security performance: An Empirical Investigation ($72,580 total). 2006-2009.
  • NET Institute (Summer Research Grant): Assessing the Value of Network Security Technologies (US$ 3,000 total). Summer 2007.
  • Some other grants from Sauder School of Business, HSS, and UBC/SSHRC.

Published Papers:

  • Bulgurcu, B., Cavusoglu, H., Benbasat, I. (Conditionally Accepted –Oct 2009).  Information Security Policy Compliance: An Empirical Study of Rationality-Based Beliefs and Information Security Awareness. Management Information Systems Quarterly.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Hu, N., Li, Y., Ma, D. (Conditionally Accepted - August 2009). Information Technology Diffusion with Influentials, Imitators, and Opponents: Model and Preliminary Evidence. Journal of Management Information Systems.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Raghunathan, S., Cavusoglu, H.  (2009). Configuration of and Interaction between Information Security Technologies: The Case of Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems. Information Systems Research, 20 (2), June, pp. 198-217.
  • Al-Natour, S., Cavusoglu, H.  (2009). The Strategic Knowledge-based Dependency Diagrams: A Tool for Analyzing Strategic Knowledge Dependencies for the Purposes of Understanding and Communicating. 10 (2-3), Sep., pp. 103-121.  Information Technology and Management (ITM)
  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Zhang, J. (2008). Security Patch Management: Share the Burden or Share the Damage? Management Science, 54(4), 657 - 670.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Raghunathan, S. (2007). Efficiency of Vulnerability Disclosure Mechanisms to Disseminate Vulnerability Knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 33(3), 171 - 185.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Raghunathan, S. (2007). Selecting a Customization Strategy Under Competition: Mass Customization, Targeted Mass Customization, and Product Proliferation. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 54(1), 12 - 28.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Raghunathan, S. (2004). Economics of IT Security Management: Four Improvements to Current Security Practices. Communications of the AlS, 14(article 3)

Completed Papers:

  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Raghunathan, S. Value of Postponement and Information Sharing Strategies in a Two-Level Supply Chain.
  • Tan, C., Thiele, V., Cavusoglu, H., Lim, E. . Delegating Decisional Rights for Investment Projects: Lifting the Curse of Unwarranted Escalation? [SSRN]
  • Banker, R., Cavusoglu, H., Kumar, N. Investments in Technology and Value Appropriation.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Son, J., Benbasat, I. Information Security Control Resources in Organizations: A Multidimensional View and Their Key Drivers.
  • Cavusoglu, H.  Making Sound Security Investment Decisions.


Recent Conference/Workshop:

  • Bulgurcu, B., Cavusoglu, H., Benbasat, I. (Forthcoming). Quality and Fairness of an Information Security Policy as Antecedents of Employees’ Security Engagement in the Workplace:  An Empirical Investigation. 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2010). Koloa, Hawaii. Jan 5-8, 2010.
  • Bulgurcu, B., Cavusoglu, H., Benbasat, I. (2009). Roles of Information Security Awareness and Perceived Fairness In Information Security. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2009. San Diego, California.
  • Bulgurcu, B., Cavusoglu, H., Benbasat, I. (2009). Effects of Individual and Organization Based Beliefs and the Moderating Role of Work Experience on Insiders’ Good Security Behavior. Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Software Security Process. Vancouver, Canada. August 29-31, 2009.
  • Bulgurcu, B., Cavusoglu, H., Benbasat, I. (2009). The Moderating Role of Work Experince: How does it Change the Impact of Employees' Individual and Organizational Beliefs to Comply with the Information Security Policy? 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California, August 6 - 9, 2009.
  • Bulgurcu, B., Cavusoglu, H., Benbasat, I. (2008). Analysis of Perceived Burden of Compliance: The Role of Fairness, Awareness, and Facilitating Conditions. Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Paris, France.
  • Cavusoglu, H., Cavusoglu, H., Son, J., and Benbasat, I. (2008). What Drive Organizations to Invest in Information Security Controls? How Do Investments Improve Information Security Performance? Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2008, Paris, France.

 

SERVICE  

 

Review:

  • refereed for Management Science, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of MIS, etc.
  • refereed for conferences and workshops.
  • referred for granting agencies (such as SSHRC)

Conference/Workshop:

  • served as discussant in conferences and workshops (such as ICIS and WISE)
  • served as PC in conferences and workshops (such as WITS)
  • served as a track chair in conferences and workshops (such as MCIS)
  • served as a session chair in conferences and workshops (such WISE)

Media Citations/ Appearances:

  • Print Media: National Post, Globe and Mail, Financial Post, Maclean’s Magazine, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, The Province Newspaper, Ottawa Citizen, Metro, Brantford Expositor.
  • TV: CBC, CBC News World, Global TV.
  • Radio: CBC Radio One
  • Internet: Canada.com, Yahoo.ca, darkreading.com, TSN.ca, 680News.com, 940News.com, 1130News.com, Axcess News, CanadaEast.com, CanadianBusiness.com, Canoe.ca, Yahoo.ca, Msn.ca, CBC.ca, CKTB, CKFR, and CFTKTV, CTV.ca, 940 News, 570 News.

 

Graduate Students  

 

  • Supervisor, Burcu Bulgurcu (PhD)- [2008-current]
  • Committee Member, Landon Kleis (PhD)- [2004-current]
  • Supervisor, Burcu Bulgurcu (MSc) [2006-2008]
  • Committee Member, Young Eun Lee (PhD) [2002-2007]
  • Committee Member/Co-supervisor, Hui Duan (MSc) [2004-2006]
  • Principal Supervisor, Ed Egan (MSc) [2003-2006]

 

 

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