Note: This resource was last updated in December 2022. Some links may be outdated.

(Growing) List of scholars working on blockchain-related studies in the field of management and adjacent fields (e.g., finance, law, information system). Feel free to suggest any edits by emailing me.

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Management

  • Liang Chen

    • Chen, Liang, Tony W. Tong, Shaoqin Tang, and Nianchen Han. "Governance and Design of Digital Platforms: A Review and Future Research Directions on a Meta-Organization." Journal of Management 48, no. 1 (January 2022): 147–84.

  • Yan Chen

    • Chen, Yan, Igor Pereira, and Pankaj C. Patel. "Decentralized Governance of Digital Platforms." Journal of Management, April 30, 2020.

  • Quinn DuPont

    • DuPont, Quinn. "Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A History and Ethnography of 'The DAO,' a Failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization." In Bitcoin and Beyond, 157–77. Routledge, 2017.

  • Hanna Halaburda

    • Halaburda, Hanna, and Christoph Mueller-Bloch. "Toward a Multidimensional Conceptualization of Decentralization in Blockchain Governance." Academy of Management Discoveries 6, no. 4 (December 2020): 712–14.

  • Vivianna F. He

  • Ying-Ying Hsieh

    • Hsieh, Ying-Ying, and Jp Vergne. "The Future of the Web? The Coordination and Early-Stage Growth of Decentralized Platforms." Strategic Management Journal, August 2022.
    • Hsieh, Ying-Ying, Jean-Philippe Vergne, Philip Anderson, Karim Lakhani, and Markus Reitzig. "Bitcoin and the Rise of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations." Journal of Organization Design 7, no. 1 (November 2018): 14.

  • Alex Murray

    • Murray, Alex, Dennie Kim, and Jordan Combs. "The Promise of a Decentralized Internet: What Is Web3 and How Can Firms Prepare?" Business Horizons, June 2022.
    • Murray, Alex, Scott Kuban, Matthew Josefy, and Jonathan Anderson. "Contracting in the Smart Era: The Implications of Blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Contracting and Corporate Governance." Academy of Management Perspectives, April 2019.

  • Fabrice Lumineau

    • Lumineau, Fabrice, Wenqian Wang, and Oliver Schilke. "Blockchain Governance—A New Way of Organizing Collaborations?" Organization Science 32, no. 2 (2020): 500–521.

  • Daniel Obermeier

    • Obermeier, Daniel, and Joachim Henkel. "Provable Transactions: Exploring the Boundaries of Trust in Smart Contracts on Blockchains." Academy of Management Proceedings 2020, no. 1 (July 2020): 20156.

  • Joana Pereira

    • Pereira, Joana, M. Mahdi Tavalaei, and Hakan Ozalp. "Blockchain-Based Platforms: Decentralized Infrastructures and Its Boundary Conditions." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 146 (September 2019): 94–102.

  • Enrico Rossi

    • Rossi, Enrico, and Carsten Sørensen. "The Meaning of De/Centralization: A Theoretical Review, Towards a Conceptual Framing." SSRN, May 2022.

  • Carlos Santana

    • Santana, Carlos, and Laura Albareda. "Blockchain and the Emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): An Integrative Model and Research Agenda." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 182 (September 2022): 121806.

  • JP (Jean-Philippe) Vergne

    • Vergne, Jean-Philippe. "Decentralized vs. Distributed Organization: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and the Future of the Digital Platform." Organizational Theory, October 2020.

Adjacent Fields

  • Eric Alston (Colorado)

    • Alston, Eric, Wilson Law, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Martin Weiss. "Blockchain Networks as Constitutional and Competitive Polycentric Orders." Journal of Institutional Economics 18, no. 5 (2022): 707–23.

  • Primavera De Filippi

    • De Filippi, Primavera, and Samer Hassan. "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Glossary of Distributed Technologies," 2020.
    • De Filippi, Primavera, and Benjamin Loveluck. "The Invisible Politics of Bitcoin: Governance Crisis of a Decentralized Infrastructure." SSRN, 2016.

  • Kelsie Nabben

    • Nabben, Kelsie. "Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) as Data Trusts." SSRN, December 2021.

  • Richard Red

  • Nathan Schneider

    • Schneider, Nathan. "Decentralization: An Incomplete Ambition." Journal of Cultural Economy 12, no. 4 (June 2019): 265–85.

  • Joshua Tan

  • Michael Zargham

    • Zargham, Michael, and Kelsie Nabben. "Aligning 'Decentralized Autonomous Organization' to Precedents in Cybernetics." SSRN, April 2022.