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Department of CIS

Dr. Dawn Medlin
Chair
2103 Raley Hall
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: (828) 262-2411
Fax: (828) 262-6190
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Walker College of Business CIS Faculty

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Joseph A. Cazier, Ph.D.


Assistant Professor, CIS
Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs and Research

Ph.D., Arizona State University
M.B.A., Brigham Young University
B.S., Washington State University

Joseph A. Cazier completed a Ph.D. at Arizona State University in information systems. Joseph has a keen interest in information ethics, trust and security and conducts research in this area. He is also very interested in international technology issues, has lived in Europe and South America and is bilingual (English/Spanish).

Prior to joining Appalachian, Joseph was an instructor at Arizona State University, instructor at Stevens-Henager College, data analyst for W. M. Mercer Consulting, research scientist for Monsanto, general manager for Envirogrow, and supervisor for Cazier Enterprises.

Recent Publications

Funded Research Projects

Dotson, M. J., Dave, D. S., and Cazier, J. A. (2007-2009) An Investigation of the Factors that Impact the Attraction and Retention of Nurses in Rural North Carolina. Northwest Area Health Education Center of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. $99,300.

Scholarly Books

Cazier, J. A. (2006). Value Congruence and Trust Online: Their Impact on Privacy and Price Premiums, Youngstown, New York 14174-0350:  Cambria Press. (Also listed at http://www.amazon.com/Value-Congruence-Trust-Online-Premiums/dp/1934043028/)

Refereed Journal Articles

Sheridan, M. J., Cazier, J. A., & May, D. B. (accepted, 2009) "Leisure, Wine and The Internet: Exploring The Factors That Impact The Purchase Of Wine Online". Revised and resubmitted to International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing.

Cazier, J. A., Jensen, A. S., & Dave, D. S. (in press, 2009).  “Securing The Residual Information Supply Chain: How Consumer Perceptions of Information Risk Affect Adoption Of Residual RFID Technologies”. Communications of the Association for Information Systems.

Cazier, J. A., Medlin, B. D., & Durfee, A. V. (in press, 2009).  “Investigating Task Completion for a Complicated Online Travel Search”. Information Technology and Tourism.

Dave, D. S., Cazier, J. A., & Jensen, A. S. (2008).  “The Challenges in Adopting Residual RFID Technologies in the Business Environment: A Consumer Segmentation Approach”. International Journal of Business Environment, 2 (2), 242-257.

Jensen, A. S., Cazier, J. A., & Dave, D. S. (2008).  “Mitigating Consumer Perceptions of Privacy and Security Risks with the Use of Residual RFID Technologies through Governmental Trust”. Journal of Information Systems Security, 4 (1), 41-66.

Medlin, B. D., Cazier, J. A., & Foulk, D. P. (2008).  “Analyzing the Vulnerability of U.S. Hospitals to Social Engineering Attacks: How Many of Your Employees Would Share Their Password?”. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, 2 (3), 71-83.

Wilson, E. V., Dobrzykowski, D. D., & Cazier, J. A. (2008).  “The Influence of Media Trust and Internet Trust on Privacy-Risking Uses of E-Health”. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, 2 (3), 84-97.

Cazier, J. A. (2007).  “A Framework and Guide for Understanding the Creation of Consumer Trust”. Journal of International Technology and Information Management, 16 (2), 45-56.

Cazier, J. A., Wilson, E. V., & Medlin, B. D. (2007).  “The Role of Privacy Risk in IT Acceptance: An Empirical Study”. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, 1 (2), 61-73.

Cazier, J. A. (2007).  “Projecting Values Online: An E-Tailing Goldmine?” International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, 1 (3), 217-235.

Medlin, B. D. & Cazier, J. A. (2007).  “An Empirical Investigation: Health Care Employee Passwords and Their Crack Times In Relationship to HIPAA Security Standards”. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, 2 (3), 39-48.

Cazier, J. A., Shao, B. B. , & St. Louis, R. D. (2007).  “Sharing Information and Building Trust through Value Congruence”. Information Systems Frontiers, 9, 515-529.

Durfee, A., Medlin, B. D., & Cazier, J. A. (2007).  “User Characteristics for Overcoming Bias and Intrigue in Travel Searches”. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 4 (1), 76-91.

Cazier, J. A. & Medlin, B. D. (2006).  “How Secure is Your Password? An Analysis of E-Commerce Passwords”. Journal of Information Systems Security, 2 (3), 68-81.

Cazier, J. A. & Medlin, B. D. (2006). “How Secure is Your Information System? An Investigation into Actual Healthcare Worker Password Practices”. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 3 (8), 1-7.

Cazier, J. A. & Medlin, B. D. (2006).  “Password Security: An Empirical Investigation Into E-Commerce Passwords and Their Crack Times” (Reprint). EDPACS - the EDP Audit, Control, and Security Newsletter, 34 (5), 1-14.

Cazier, J. A. & Medlin, B. D. (2006).  “Password Security: An Empirical Investigation into E-Commerce Passwords and their Crack Times”. Information Systems Security: the (ISC)2 Journal, 15 (6), 45-55.

Cazier, J. A., Shao, B. B. M., & St. Louis, R. D. (2006).  “E-Business Differentiation through Value-Based Trust”. Information & Management, 43, 718-727.

Medlin, B. D. & Cazier, J. A. (2005).  “An Investigative Study: Consumer Password Choices on an E-Commerce Site”. Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 1 (4), 33-52.

Refereed Book Chapters

Please note that these are all refereed research based academic book chapters more akin to a journal article then a chapter in a textbook.

Cazier, J. A., Wilson, E. V., & Medlin, B. D. (in press, 2009). “The Impact of Privacy Risk Harm (RH) and Risk Likelihood (RL) on IT Acceptance: An Examination of a Student Information System”. In Hamid R. Nemanti (Ed.) Techniques and Applications for Advanced Information Privacy and Security: Emerging Organizational, Ethical and Human Issues.

Cazier, J. A. & LaBrie, R. C. (2008). “Ethical Dilemmas in Data Mining and Warehousing” (Reprint). In John Wang (Ed.) Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, (pp. 2841 - 2849). Hershey, PA 17033:  Information Science Reference.

Botelho, C. M. & Cazier, J. A. (2008). “Guarding Corporate Data from Social Engineering Attacks”. In Jatinder N.D. Gupta and Sushil Sharma (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance, (pp. 423-432). Hershey, PA 17033:  Idea-Group, August 2008, ISBN 978-59904-855-0.

Medlin, B. D., Cazier, J. A., & Dave, D. S. (2007). “Password Security Issues on an E-Commerce Site” (Reprint). In Hamid R. Nemanti (Ed.) Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, (pp. 3133-3141). Hershey, PA 17033:  Idea Group Reference.

Cazier, J. A. & LaBrie, R. C. (2007). “Ethical Dilemmas in Data Mining and Warehousing”. In Marian Quigley (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security, (pp. 221-228). Hershey, New York:  Information Science Reference.

Medlin, B. D., Cazier, J. A. , & Dave, D. (2006). “Password Security Issues On An E-Commerce Site”. In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A (Ed.) Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce, (pp. 902 - 907). Hershey Pennsylvania, USA:  Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).