# Blockchain Scholars


**Series**: Archive
**Date**: December 2022


> Scholars studying blockchain governance, DAOs, and decentralized platforms across management, law, finance, and information systems.


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&gt; **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 Some links may be outdated.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](mailto:xule.lin@imperial.ac.uk).

See this list in [table view at Airtable](https://airtable.com/shrtzKsnRrlZvLxbP).

## Management

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

- **Yan Chen**
  - Chen, Yan, Igor Pereira, and Pankaj C. Patel. &quot;Decentralized Governance of Digital Platforms.&quot; *Journal of Management*, April 30, 2020.

- **Quinn DuPont**
  - DuPont, Quinn. &quot;Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A History and Ethnography of &#39;The DAO,&#39; a Failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization.&quot; In Bitcoin and Beyond, 157–77. Routledge, 2017.

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

- **Vivianna F. He**
  - [Challenges for the New DAO&#39;ism](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vivianna-f-he-05a41625_dao-governance-openscience-activity-6967471840566853632-UMrs)

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

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

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

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

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

- **Enrico Rossi**
  - Rossi, Enrico, and Carsten Sørensen. &quot;The Meaning of De/Centralization: A Theoretical Review, Towards a Conceptual Framing.&quot; SSRN, May 2022.

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

- **JP (Jean-Philippe) Vergne**
  - Vergne, Jean-Philippe. &quot;Decentralized vs. Distributed Organization: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and the Future of the Digital Platform.&quot; Organizational Theory, October 2020.

## Adjacent Fields

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

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

- **Kelsie Nabben**
  - Nabben, Kelsie. &quot;Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) as Data Trusts.&quot; SSRN, December 2021.

- **Richard Red**
  - [Crypto Governance Research](https://www.blockcommons.red/crypto-governance-research/overviews/)

- **Nathan Schneider**
  - Schneider, Nathan. &quot;Decentralization: An Incomplete Ambition.&quot; Journal of Cultural Economy 12, no. 4 (June 2019): 265–85.

- **Joshua Tan**
  - [Exploring DAOs as a New Kind of Institution](https://medium.com/commonsstack/exploring-daos-as-a-new-kind-of-institution-8103e6b156d4)

- **Michael Zargham**
  - Zargham, Michael, and Kelsie Nabben. &quot;Aligning &#39;Decentralized Autonomous Organization&#39; to Precedents in Cybernetics.&quot; SSRN, April 2022.


