Nancy Lankton

Nancy Lankton is the Associate Dean of Accreditation and Strategic Initiatives at the Lewis College of Business at Marshall University. She received her PhD from Arizona State University in 2000 from the Department of Accounting and is a certified public accountant (CPA) and certified information systems auditor (CISA). She teaches topics such as accounting information systems, information security and controls, and management control systems. Her research investigates trust in strategic and emerging technologies, online privacy behaviors, and information technology governance. Nancy publishes in a variety of high-quality academic journals, including Information Systems Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Information Systems, and others. She is currently an associate editor at the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and is a board member for the West Virginia Society of CPAs.

Education

• PhD, Arizona State University, 2000
• MS, Information Systems, Arizona State University, 1997
• MBA, Arizona State University, 1993
• BS, Accounting, Arizona State University, 1985

Employee Awards and Honors

• WVSCPA Teaching Award, May 2018
• Kermit E. McGinnis Distinguished Professor, Lewis College of Business, 2015 to 2017
• Outstanding Faculty Award, College of Business, Marshall University, May 2012
• Outstanding Research Award, College of Business, Marshall University, May 2011

Selected Publications

• Lankton, N. K., Price, J., & Karim, M. A. (in press). Cybersecurity breaches and i information technology governance roles in audit committee charters. Journal of Information Systems, forthcoming.
• Lankton, N., McKnight, D. H., & Tripp, J. F. (2020). Understanding the antecedents and outcomes of Facebook privacy behaviors: An integrated model. IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, 67(3), 697-711.
• Lankton, N., Stivason, C., & Gurung, A. (2019). Information protection behaviors: Morality and organizational criticality. Information and Computer Security, 27(3), 468-488.
• Mosrie, N., & Lankton, N. K. (2019). Opinion: FASB proposal jeopardizes health care entity financing. Journal of Accountancy.
• Price, J., & Lankton, N. (2018). A framework and guidelines for assessing and developing board-level information technology committee charters. Journal of Information Systems, 32(1), 109-129.
• Lankton, N., McKnight, D. H., & Tripp, J. F. (2017). Facebook privacy management strategies: A cluster analysis of user privacy behaviors. Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 149-163.
• McKnight, D. H., Lankton, N. K., Nicolaou, A., & Price, J. (2017). Distinguishing the effects of B2B information quality, system quality, and service outcome quality on trust and distrust. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 26(2), 118-141.