Alex Murray

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Degree History:

PhD, University of Washington, 2018
MS, University of Virginia, 2012
BS, University of Alabama, 2011

Previous Academic Positions:

Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich, 2018-2019

Professional Leadership Positions:

Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Review

Research/Teaching Awards:

Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Review, 2022
Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review, 2022
Outstanding Faculty in Entrepreneurship, Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, 2022
Best Reviewer Award, Journal of Business Venturing, 2021
Most Developmental Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Review, 2021
Translational Research Grant, Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, 2020
COVID-19 Impact Grant Award, 2020
New Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, 2019

Bio:

Alex Murray's research focuses on developing theoretical frameworks to explain how entrepreneurs mobilize resources from distributed resource providers and how distributed resource providers use novel technologies to coordinate resource allocations. He addresses empirical and theoretical puzzles stemming from the technologically-driven phenomena of crowdfunding, blockchain-based firms, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Theoretically, he contributes to the literatures on organizational theory, strategy, and entrepreneurship by unpacking how entrepreneurs obtain and maintain support from many distributed resource providers over time. Methodologically, he complements inductive field-based approaches with statistical analyses to develop novel insights and advance existing theories in intriguing ways.

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Technology Entrepreneurship
Venture Finance
Resource Mobilization
Decentralized Governance
Distributed Ledger Technology
Crowdfunding

Journal Articles

Murray, Alex, Dennie Kim, and Jordan Combs. "The Promise of a Decentralized Internet: What is Web 3.0 and How Can Firms Prepare?" Business Horizons, forthcoming. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.06.002.
June 2022
Murray, Alex, and Greg Fisher. "When More is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures." Organization Science, forthcoming.
November 2021
Murray, Alex, Jen Rhymer, and David G. Sirmon. "Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations." Academy of Management Review 46, no. 3: 552-571. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2019.0186.
July 2021
Hallen, Benjamin L., Jason P. Davis, and Alex Murray. "Entrepreneurial Network Evolution: Explicating the Structural Localism and Agentic Network Change Distinction." Academy of Management Annals 14, no. 2: 1067-1102. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2018.0063.
July 2020
Murray, Alex, Suresh Kotha, and Greg Fisher. "Community-Based Resource Mobilization: How Entrepreneurs Acquire Resources from Distributed Non-Professionals via Crowdfunding." Organization Science, 31, no. 4: 960-989. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1339.
July 2020
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, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2018.0066.
April 2019

Cases

Huang, Laura, Maximilian Enthoven, Alex Murray, and Erik Hofmann. "modum.io (B): Bidding Farewell to Crypto." Harvard Business School Case N9-421-068.
January 2021
Huang, Laura, Dominik Roeck, Alex Murray, and Erik Hofmann. "modum.io: Funding a Blockchain-based Start-up’s Supply Chain Solution." Harvard Business School Case N9-420-006.
January 2020
Murray, Alex, and Suresh Kotha. "Kickstarter: Using Crowdfunding to Launch a New Board Game." In Strategic Management, edited by F. T. Rothaermel. Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw-Hill.
January 2020

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Alex Murray

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Bio:

UO Business: The Magazine, Fall 2021

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UO Business: The Magazine, Fall 2020

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