Bruce Dehning is
originally from Longmont, Colorado. He lived
in the Longmont/Boulder area from 1965 until 1997 when he moved to New
Hampshire with his wife Katerina and daughter Katerina. They were joined in New Hampshire by their
daughter Michaela in 1998. They moved to
California in 2002 so that Bruce could be closer to his new job at Chapman
University. Soon after their arrival in
California they got a puppy named Lilly, and more recently a cat named Indie.
Bruce Dehning is an Associate Professor of
Accounting Information Systems at Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics. He holds a B.S. in Finance, an M.S. in
Accounting, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the Leeds School of Business at the
University of Colorado. Professor
Dehning is a Past-President of the Information Systems Section of the American
Accounting Association and served as Associate
Dean of the Argyros School of Business and
Economics at Chapman from 2008 to 2011. He spent a
sabbatical semester at the University of Technology,
Sydney in 2012, received a Commemorative Medal for merits towards the development of the Faculty of
Management and Economics of Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic in 2010, was chosen as Faculty
Member of the Year by Alpha Kappa Psi at Chapman
in 2010, served as an associate editor of the
International Journal of Accounting
Information Systems 2007-2010, received the American Accounting Association
Information Systems Section Notable Contributions to the Literature Award in
2006, was named a Fulbright Scholar to teach in the Czech
Republic in 2005, was awarded the Wang-Fradkin
Professorship at Chapman University in 2004, and the Virginia Paul Dee Professorship at the University
of New Hampshire in 2001. He has
twenty three total publications, including three premier
publications and eight impact factor publications. He is the sixth most
cited scholar in Accounting Information Systems, being cited more than 1,400
times. He has presented papers at
numerous prestigious national and international conferences, and his research
has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems,
Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems,
International Journal of Accounting
Information Systems, Information and
Management, and other academic journals. Outside of academia he spent time in the
insurance industry and as an accounting information systems consultant for
small businesses.