Robert Willison

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Robert Willison is a scholar working on Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Willison has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Information Systems, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Robert Willison's work include Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (23 papers), Information and Cyber Security (19 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 papers). Robert Willison is often cited by papers focused on Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (23 papers), Information and Cyber Security (19 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 papers). Robert Willison collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Robert Willison's co-authors include Merrill Warkentin, Mikko Siponen, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tamara Dinev, Allen C. Johnston, James Backhouse, Anthony Vance, Richard Baskerville, Raffaele Filieri and Ray Paternoster and has published in prestigious journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information & Management and Information Systems Research.

In The Last Decade

Robert Willison

26 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Beyond Deterrence: An Expanded View of Employee Computer Abuse1

2013 359 citations Robert Willison, Merrill Warkentin MIS Quarterly profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Willison United Kingdom	15	1.3k	691	397	183	130	27	1.7k
Anat Hovav South Korea	17	1.6k 1.2×	659 1.0×	558 1.4×	248 1.4×	188 1.4×	59	2.2k
Spyros Kokolakis Greece	18	926 0.7×	904 1.3×	293 0.7×	255 1.4×	120 0.9×	43	1.7k
Agata McCormac Australia	16	1.1k 0.9×	456 0.7×	369 0.9×	81 0.4×	33 0.3×	36	1.3k
Kathryn Parsons Australia	17	1.1k 0.8×	505 0.7×	350 0.9×	79 0.4×	30 0.2×	42	1.4k
James Backhouse United Kingdom	14	836 0.6×	417 0.6×	293 0.7×	121 0.7×	254 2.0×	44	1.2k
M. Adam Mahmood United States	13	590 0.4×	364 0.5×	241 0.6×	294 1.6×	118 0.9×	33	1.1k
Jordan Shropshire United States	13	541 0.4×	268 0.4×	191 0.5×	127 0.7×	46 0.4×	46	852
Maria Karyda Greece	17	684 0.5×	281 0.4×	277 0.7×	76 0.4×	92 0.7×	41	900
Amela Karahasanović Norway	14	654 0.5×	324 0.5×	116 0.3×	147 0.8×	66 0.5×	34	1.3k
Aggeliki Tsohou Greece	15	412 0.3×	274 0.4×	164 0.4×	85 0.5×	60 0.5×	54	715

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Galletta, Dennis F., Gregory D. Moody, Paul Benjamin Lowry, et al.. (2025). Balancing Fear and Confidence: A Strategic Approach to Mitigating Human Risk in Cybersecurity. MIS Quarterly Executive. 1–15.

Willison, Robert, et al.. (2018). A Tale of Two Deterrents: Considering the Role of Absolute and Restrictive Deterrence to Inspire New Directions in Behavioral and Organizational Security Research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1187–1216. 31 indexed citations

Willison, Robert & Paul Benjamin Lowry. (2018). Disentangling the Motivations for Organizational Insider Computer Abuse through the Rational Choice and Life Course Perspectives. ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 49(SI). 81–102. 8 indexed citations

Lowry, Paul Benjamin, Tamara Dinev, & Robert Willison. (2017). Why security and privacy research lies at the centre of the information systems (IS) artefact: proposing a bold research agenda. European Journal of Information Systems. 26(6). 546–563. 137 indexed citations

Willison, Robert, Merrill Warkentin, & Allen C. Johnston. (2016). Examining employee computer abuse intentions: insights from justice, deterrence and neutralization perspectives. Information Systems Journal. 28(2). 266–293. 119 indexed citations

Willison, Robert & Merrill Warkentin. (2013). Beyond Deterrence: An Expanded View of Employee Computer Abuse1. MIS Quarterly. 37(1). 1–20. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

Siponen, Mikko, Anthony Vance, & Robert Willison. (2012). New insights into the problem of software piracy: The effects of neutralization, shame, and moral beliefs. Information & Management. 49(7-8). 334–341. 99 indexed citations

Warkentin, Merrill, Robert Willison, & Allen C. Johnston. (2011). The Role of Perceptions of Organizational Injustice and Techniques of Neutralization in Forming Computer Abuse Intentions. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 8 indexed citations

Siponen, Mikko, Anthony Vance, & Robert Willison. (2010). New Insights for an Old Problem: Explaining Software Piracy through Neutralization Theory. CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School). 59. 1–10. 10 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert & Merrill Warkentin. (2010). The expanded security action cycle: a temporal analysis. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 1 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert & Merrill Warkentin. (2009). Motivations for employee computer crime: understanding and addressing workplace disgruntlement through the application of organisational justice. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 16 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert & Mikko Siponen. (2009). Overcoming the insider: reducing employee crime through Situational Crime Prevention. CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School). 79 indexed citations

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Siponen, Mikko & Robert Willison. (2009). Information security management standards: Problems and solutions. Information & Management. 46(5). 267–270. 197 indexed citations

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Siponen, Mikko, Robert Willison, & Richard Baskerville. (2008). Power and practice in information systems security research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 26. 33 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert. (2008). Applying situational crime prevention to the information systems context. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 23. 169–192. 2 indexed citations

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Siponen, Mikko & Robert Willison. (2007). A Critical Assessment of IS Security Research between 1990-2004. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1551–1559. 49 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert. (2006). Understanding the offender/environment dynamic for computer crimes. Information Technology and People. 19(2). 170–186. 37 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert. (2006). Understanding the perpetration of employee computer crime in the organisational context. Information and Organization. 16(4). 304–324. 82 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert. (2005). Considering the Offender: Addressing the Procedural Stages of Computer Crime in an Organisational Context. 3 indexed citations

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Willison, Robert. (2004). Understanding the offender/environment dynamic for computer crimes: assessing the feasibility of applying criminological theory to the IS security context. 3. 10 pp.–10 pp.. 12 indexed citations

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