A Model is a Map: Reimagining the Placement-Layering-Integration Model
A Model is a Map: Reimagining the Placement-Layering-Integration Model
James Higgs Stephen Flowerday Dionysios Demetis Wray Bradley Yi Ting Chua Andrew Morin a The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAb Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USAc The University of Hull, Hull, UKJames Higgs, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University. He obtained his BCom and MCom from Rhodes University, South Africa, majoring in Information Systems. James received his PhD from the University of Tulsa in the School of Cyber Studies. His dissertation, titled “Money Laundering in Online Video Gaming”, explored the intersection of money laundering, cybercrime and the online video gaming ecosystem. James’s research interests include money laundering and financial crime, behavioral and economic cybersecurity, criminology and social deviance, responsible design, and the philosophical foundations of research methodologies.Stephen Flowerday, is a professor of Information Systems at Augusta University. His research interests focus on the management, behavioral, and human aspects of cybersecurity and cybercrime. A British Computer Society Fellow and Association for Information Systems Member, he serves as Associate Editor for several journals, and he secured competitive research funding for his research.Dr. Dionysios Demetis, is an Associate Professor at Hull University Business School (UK) and a Visiting Professor at Texas A&M University (USA). He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics on Anti-Money Laundering and Information Systems. He is the co-chair to the Annual Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (currently in its 25th year) and a regular contributor to the Economic Crime Symposium at Cambridge University. For his work on cybercrime he has received the Best Paper Award by the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and the Best Publication Award from the Association of Information Systems and its Senior Scholars. He is the author of numerous journal publications and three books. His latest monograph is entitled The Technological Construction of Reality (co-authored with Ian Angell) and published worldwide by Edward Elgar.Professor Wray Bradley, has practiced as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New York, Ohio, and Colorado. He has also practiced as an attorney in Ohio and Colorado. He is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and is a former arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting (JFIA) and the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research (JFAR). He teaches graduate courses in fraud detection and prevention, and forensic accounting. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in taxation.Dr. Yi Ting Chua, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Cyber Studies at the University of Tulsa (TU). She received her PhD in criminal justice from Michigan State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the computer science department at the University of Cambridge. Her research centers around the role of the Internet in criminal offending and is shaped primarily by the increasing role of technology and cyberspace in criminal and deviant behaviors. Her work has appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence and the Journal of Computer Security. In November 2024, she received the Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Cybercrime.Andrew Morin, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the School of Cyber Studies. His research focuses on the economics of information security, cryptocurrency market manipulations, and cost-informed cyber security of critical infrastructure. Current research efforts include: (1) evaluating the goal congruence of cyber security personnel at various levels within an organization, (2) identifying decentralized cryptocurrency market manipulations, and (3) constructing cost-informed methods of standing up secure smart installations. Dr. Morin has published opinions for the Tulsa World newspaper, been invited to speak to non-profit organizations about the risks of AI and cryptocurrencies, and is an Energy Fellow with the Collins College of Business’ Center for Energy Studies. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from The University of Tulsa, and earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico.