MUELLER-BLOCH Christoph

Christoph Mueller-Bloch is an Assistant Professor at ESSEC Business School. His research is primarily concerned with information systems governance and coordination, in particular in the context of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and Communications of the ACM. He holds a Ph.D. from the IT University of Copenhagen.

• 2020 : Doctor of Philosophy, Other, Information Systems and Decision Sciences (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• 2017 : Master of Science, Business Administration and Information Systems (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
• 2014 : Bachelor of Science, Business administration (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2021 - Present : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2020 - 2021 : Postdoctoral Researcher (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• 2019 : Visiting Scholar (New York University, United States of America)

• 2021 : AIS Impact Award

• BAKOS, Y., MUELLER-BLOCH, C. and HALABURDA, H. (2021). When Permissioned Blockchains Deliver More Decentralization Than Permissionless. Communications of the ACM, 64(2), pp. 20-22.
• HALABURDA, H. and MUELLER-BLOCH, C. (2020). Toward a Multidimensional Conceptualization of Decentralization in Blockchain Governance: Commentary on “Two Sides of the Same Coin? Decentralized versus Proprietary Blockchains and the Performance of Digital Currencies” by Cennamo, Marchesi, and Meyer. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(4), pp. 712-714.
• ROSSI, M., MUELLER-BLOCH, C., THATCHER, J.B. and BECK, R. (2019). Blockchain Research in Information Systems: Current Trends and an Inclusive Future Research Agenda. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(9), pp. 1390-1405.
• BECK, R., MUELLER-BLOCH, C. and KING, J.L. (2018). Governance in the Blockchain Economy: A Framework and Research Agenda. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 19(10), pp. 1020-1034.

• APPLEGATE, L., MUELLER-BLOCH, C. and BECK, R. (2017). Deutsche Bank: Pursuing Blockchain Opportunities (A). Harvard Business School, pp. 1-13.
• APPLEGATE, L., MUELLER-BLOCH, C. and BECK, R. (2017). Deutsche Bank: Pursuing Blockchain Opportunities (B). Harvard Business School, pp. 1-2.

• MUELLER-BLOCH, C. (2022). Are cryptocurrencies over? Not so fast. ESSEC Knowledge.
• HALABURDA, H. and MUELLER-BLOCH, C. (2019). Will We Realize Blockchain’s Promise of Decentralization? Harvard Business Review (online).