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

Bio:

Alex Murray's research focuses on developing theoretical frameworks to explain how entrepreneurs and organizations mobilize resources, enroll initial stakeholders, and coordinate activities. He is particularly interested in empirical and theoretical puzzles stemming from the technologically-driven phenomena of decentralized organizations, disintermediated markets, and distributed online communities. His projects are based in a range of contexts including crowdfunding, multi-sided platforms, blockchain-based firms, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

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Research Interests

Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Technology Entrepreneurship
Venture Finance
Social Entrepreneurship
Resource Mobilization

Journal Articles

Murray, Alex, Suresh Kotha, and Greg Fisher. "Community-Based Resource Mobilization: How Entrepreneurs Acquire Resources from Distributed Non-Professionals via Crowdfunding." Organization Science, forthcoming.
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.

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