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Dan Pienta

Daniel Pienta

Assistant Professor and Neel Corporate Governance Center Research Fellow

Phone 865-974-1753

Email dpienta@utk.edu

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Location Room - 618, Haslam Business Building

Department:

Accounting & Information Management

Center:

Neel Corporate Governance Center

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Biography

Daniel A. Pienta is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Management and a research fellow of the Neel Corporate Governance Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include information security and privacy. Before entering academia, he consulted some of the largest U.S. financial institutions on due diligence and cybersecurity. Pienta earned his Ph.D. from Clemson University, MBA from Cleveland State University and B.A. from The Ohio State University. He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His research has appeared in numerous premier information systems journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

Expertise:

Board of Directors, Compensation, Cybersecurity, Executive Characteristics, Regulatory Oversight, Sustainability

Education:

2019 College of Business, Clemson University, Ph.D., Business Administration

2014 Monte Ahuja College of Business, Cleveland State University, M.B.A., Information Systems Technology

1999 The Ohio State University, B.S., Financial Management

Awards/Honors
  • 2023 Scholarship Excellence Summer Support Award
  • 2022 Baylor University Early Career Research Award Nominee
  • PACIS 2022 Best Associate Editor, IT Innovation, Adoption, and Diffusion Track
  • ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow – San Francisco, California (2018)
  • AMCIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow – Mid Stage, Boston, Massachusetts (2017)
  • AMCIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow – Late Stage, New Orleans, Louisiana (2018)
  • MISQ Reviewer Workshop – San Francisco, California (2018)
  • Alpha Chi Omega, Baylor University, Impactful Professor Recognition (2019)