Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization CTO

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to two blockchain-focused events at this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, aimed at scholars interested in digital governance, decentralization, platform studies, and emerging socio-technical infrastructures.

🔷 Event #1: Symposium
The Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Blockchain Platforms: Beyond Decentralization and Algorithms
Session #15697
📅 Tuesday, July 29, 2025
🕒 1:45–3:15 PM (CEST)
📍 Bella Center, Meeting Room 137/138

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together researchers exploring blockchain-based innovations through institutional theory, cultural dynamics, and organizational logics.

Presenters:
🔹 Yunjung Pak (University of Alberta) — Configurational analysis of governance resilience
🔹 Nina-Birte Schirrmacher (University of Sydney), Michel Avital (Copenhagen Business School), Johannes Rude Jensen, Omri Ross (University of Copenhagen) — Accountability in DAOs
🔹 Gianlorenzo Meggio (Aarhus University) & Agnieszka Radziwon (University of Southern Denmark) — Category stigma formation in blockchain voting
🔹 Paula Ungureanu, Carlotta Cochis (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) —  Constructing a technology logic through multimodal prefiguration and hype in Blockchain for Good

Discussants:
Victoria Lemieux (University of British Columbia) & Alex Murray (University of Oregon)
 
Together, we’ll explore:
◾ How cultural narratives and institutional contexts shape blockchain governance
◾ What new forms of organizational accountability are emerging in the context of decentralized organizations
◾ How academics can negatively affect the social evaluation of an emerging technology and outmarket it
◾ How hypes about emergent digital technologies are shaped by actors’ efforts to navigate multiple logics to pursue the promise of social disruption

🤝 Event #2: Networking Reception
Blockchain in Academia Reception: 3rd Edition
📅 Sunday, July 27, 2025
🕔 5:00–6:30 PM (CEST)
📍 Bella Center, Foyer 3-A
🎉 Light refreshments provided

Join us for an informal gathering of blockchain scholars across AOM divisions. This reception offers a space for conversation, connection, and exploration of emerging research on blockchain, DAOs, digital governance, and decentralized technologies.
Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGE8obWtOVZVq9mSd_5KdzUJttnZLavaKIi0D2iG28bnRX0A/viewform

Both events are open to all AOM attendees.

We look forward to seeing many of you in Copenhagen!

Warm regards,
Gianlorenzo Meggio (Aarhus University)

Yunjung Pak (University of Alberta)

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Gianlorenzo Meggio

PostDoc, Aarhus University
Research Affiliate, UC Berkeley
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