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Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
linxule@imperial.ac.uk | linxule.com

Education

• Imperial College Business School, 2019 - 2025 (Expected)
  • PhD Student, Management and Entrepreneurship
• University of Chicago, 2018 - 2019
• University of Notre Dame, 2011 - 2016

Research Interests

Organizational Design, Decentralized Governance, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Grounded Theory, Theory Building, Neural Topic Modeling, Large Language Models

Published and Accepted Works

Commons and Tokens — Governance Modes in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Lin, Xule. 2021. “Commons and Tokens — Governance Modes in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).” Academy of Management Proceedings 2021 (1): 16429.

ASQ Interview - Ter Wal, Criscuolo, McEvily and Salter (2020). Dual Networking: How Collaborators Network in Their Quest for Innovation

Lin, Xule, and Scholz, Nadine. “Ter Wal, Criscuolo, McEvily and Salter (2020). Dual Networking: How Collaborators Network in Their Quest for Innovation.” The ASQ Blog, June 26, 2021.

Works in Progress

• Lin, X., Hsieh, Y-Y., & Autio, E. (2024). Tokens’ dual role in DAOs: Enabling collective governance and shaping outcomes [Manuscript in preparation]
• Lin, X., Hsieh, Y-Y., & Autio, E. (2024). How do algorithmic and social governance drive governance adaptations in decentralized organizations? [Manuscript in preparation]
  • Nominee, 2023 SMS Annual Conference Research Methods Paper Prize
    • Nominee, 2023 SMS Annual Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize
• Lin, X., & Corley, K. (2024). Preserving researcher agency when adding AI tools to a grounded theory study: Introducing scalable inductive grounded NLP approach (SIGNA) [Manuscript under review].
  • OpenAI’s Researcher Access Program, 2024
  • Google Cloud Research Credits program, 2023
• Adjovu, C., & Lin, X. (2024). Distributed governance score framework [Manuscript in preparation].
  • This project was generously funded through the Governance Research Round organized by Gitcoin and administered by Metagov.

Grants, Fellowship, Awards

• OpenAI’s Researcher Access Program
• Google Cloud Research Credits program
  • Award GCP19980904
• Gitcoin Grants
  • Round 19, Governance Research Round by Metagov, 2023
• Radical Exchange Foundation
  • Scholarship, UnConference, “Exploring Digital Identity for Decentralized Societies”, 2022
  • Student Scholarship, Ideas and Research Track, 2019

Professional Activities

• Organizer
  • Web3 Decentralization: Blockchain Technologies’ Impact on Modern Organizational Governance, Panel Symposium, AOM 2023
    • Co-chair: Magnus van Haaren and Wenqian Wang
    • Panelists: Ethan Bernstein, Hanna Halaburda, Ying-Ying Hsieh, Alex Murray, Joana Pereira, Jean-Philippe Vergne
• Member
  • Organizational Design Community
  • London Qualitative Community
  • Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA)
  • Academy of Management, OMT, ENT, and TIM Divisions
  • Strategic Management Society
• Reviewer
  • Strategic Management Society Annual Conference
  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting. OMT, ENT, and TIM Divisions
  • Academy of Management Discoveries, Special Research Forum (SRF) on “The Human Side of the Future of Work: Understanding the Role People Play in Shaping a Changing World”, 2022
• Volunteer
  • Student Representative, Decentralization in Organization (DiO) Conference, 2023 & 2024
  • PhD Representative, Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA), 2021 – Present
  • Student Volunteer, SMS 42nd Annual Conference London, 2022
  • MRes Social Chair, Doctoral Student Staff Committee, Imperial College Business School, 2019 – 2020
  • International Ambassador, Notre Dame International Office, University of Notre Dame, 2012-2016
• Research Assistant
  • Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, 2018 – 2019

Select Presentations

• 2023
  • SEI Research Day, Imperial College Business School, London
  • Methods Reading Group, Imperial College Business School, London
  • SMS Annual Meeting
  • University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS) Paper Development Workshop
• 2022
  • UK FinTech Academic Network (UKFAN), London
  • SEI Research Day, Bayes Business School, London
• 2021
  • AOM Annual Meeting

Teaching Experience

• Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
    • Systematic Reviews, 2023 (Demonstrate tools to conduct systematic reviews)
    • Strategic Management, 2022-2023
    • Innovation and Strategy in FinTech, 2022-2024
  • Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
    • Partnerships and Passive Activities, 2015
    • International Taxation, 2016

Industry Experience

• Ernst & Young, Chicago, IL
  • Staff, 2016 - 2018
• Café Tatum Break, Xiamen
  • Co-founder, Manager, 2013 - 2014
• Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital & Care Network, Chicago, IL
  • Summer Intern with Extended Services Department, 2012
• Firefly in Action (萤火虫在行动), Lhasa & Xiamen
  • Co-Founder, 2008-2010

References

• Erkko Autio, FBA, Professor, Chair in Technology Venturing, Imperial College Business School
  • Co-founder, wicked acceleration labs
  • Co-founder, Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute
  • Co-author, Global Entrepreneurship Index and EU Regional Entrepreneurship Index
  • erkko.autio@imperial.ac.uk
• Ying-Ying Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School
  • Associate Centre Director of the Center for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering , Imperial College London
  • y.hsieh@imperial.ac.uk