Agnes Yang

I am expected to graduate with my PhD in 2025 and will be starting my career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee. 🍊

My dissertation explores how emerging technologies shape governance and market practices through disintermediation. Specifically, my dissertation consists of two streams: (i) how blockchain technologies enable new forms of organizing and decision-making; (ii) how they mitigate gender and racial biases in traditional marketplaces, by eliminating intermediaries such as management authorities and art galleries.

By exploring the potential and limitations of blockchain technologies, I aim to guide organizations and marketplaces toward better adoption of decentralized systems suited to their objectives.

My dissertation consists of three essays, which are on:

1. The role of token ownership in DAO* governance: A job market paper
2. Community-managed governance, learned from everyday community discourse in DAOs
3. How disintermediation enabled by NFT** market may help mitigate the gender- and racial- sales disparity in art market.

* DAO: decentralized autonomous organization, ** NFT: non-fungible token