Dr. Florian Spychiger

Dr. Florian Spychiger

ZHAW School of Management and Law
Institute for Organizational Viability
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 42 38
florian.spychiger@zhaw.ch

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Senior Researcher & Dozent Dezentrale Autonome Organisationen & Blockchain

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Dezentralisierte Autonome Organisationen
Anreizsysteme in Blockchains
Blockchain Governance
Agentbasierte Modelle

Lehrtätigkeit

Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung

Berufserfahrung

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Dezentrale Autonome Organisationen & Blockchain
ZHAW
02 / 2019 - 02 / 2025
Management Associate
UZH Blockchain Center
08 / 2020 - 08 / 2023
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent SCM & Blockchain
ZHAW
02 / 2018 - 01 / 2019
Werkstudent Prozessautomatisierung
Vontobel
09 / 2015 - 07 / 2017
Praktikum Investment Research
SG Analytics, Pune, India
01 / 2015 - 07 / 2015

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

Doktor der Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Universität Zürich
02 / 2019 - 09 / 2023
MSc UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance / Finanzwissenschaft
ETH Zürich / Universität Zürich
09 / 2015 - 04 / 2019
BSc Volkswirtschaft / Volkswirtschaft
Universität Bern
09 / 2010 - 09 / 2014

Weiterbildung

CAS in Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW School of Management and Law
08 / 2023
Funding for Science and Innovation Projects and Fellowships
Universität Zürich
05 / 2020
Project design and grant proposal writing
Universität Zürich
03 / 2020
Design thinking
Universität Zürich
10 / 2019
Project Management for Researchers
ZHAW School of Management and Law
07 / 2019
Cambridge Proficiency C2
Universität Cambridge
11 / 2011

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6602-8450

Social Media

Medienpräsenz

Projekte

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

Blum, M. et al. (2025) 'Governance and maintenance for DAOs with physical assets : the case of No1s1', Blockchain: Research and Applications, 7(4), p. 100357. doi: 10.1016/j.bcra.2025.100357.
Lustenberger, M. et al. (2025) 'DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO workshop (DAWO)', Applied Sciences, 15(7), p. 3491. doi: 10.3390/app15073491.
Lustenberger, M., Küng, L. and Spychiger, F. (2025) 'Designing community governance : learnings from DAOs', The journal of the British Blockchain Association, 8(1). doi: 10.31585/jbba-8-1-(4)2025.
Lustenberger, M. et al. (2025) 'DAOs as property owners : a conceptual exploration from the perspective of organizational system theory', Journal of Organization Design, 14(2), pp. 127–143. doi: 10.1007/s41469-025-00186-4.
Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2025) 'Blockchain in supply chains : an unfulfilled promise', Supply Chain Management, 30(2), pp. 178–194. doi: 10.1108/SCM-03-2024-0192.
Li, S.-N., Spychiger, F. and Tessone, C. J. (2023) 'Reward distribution in proof-of-stake protocols : a trade-off between inclusion and fairness', IEEE Access, 11, pp. 134136–134145. doi: 10.1109/access.2023.3336418.
Spychiger, F. et al. (2023) 'Organizing projects with blockchain through a decentralized autonomous organization', Project Leadership and Society, 4(100102). doi: 10.1016/j.plas.2023.100102.
Schädler, L., Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2023) 'Analyzing decision-making in blockchain governance', Frontiers in Blockchain, 23(6). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2023.1256651.
Spychiger, F. et al. (2022) 'Incentivizing data quality in blockchain-based systems : the case of the digital cardossier', Distributed Ledger Technologies, 1(1). doi: 10.1145/3538228.
Li, C., Spychiger, F. and Tessone, C. J. (2022) 'The miner's dilemma with migration : the control effect of solo-mining', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20(3), pp. 2760–2770. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2022.3232183.
Lustenberger, M., Malešević , S. and Spychiger, F. (2021) 'Ecosystem readiness : blockchain adoption is driven externally', Frontiers in Blockchain, 4(720454). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2021.720454.
Spychiger, F., Tasca, P. and Tessone, C. J. (2021) 'Unveiling the importance and evolution of design components through the "tree of blockchain"', Frontiers in Blockchain, 3(613476). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2020.613476.
Malešević, S., Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2020) 'Applying distributed ledger concepts to a Swiss regional label ecosystem', Logistics, 4(32). doi: 10.3390/logistics4040032.

Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed

Spychiger, F., Lustenberger, M. and Küng, L. (2025) 'Decision-making in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)', in Themistocleous, M. (ed.) Handbook of blockchain technology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 142–163. doi: 10.4337/9781803922805.00020.
Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Taylor, M. (2019) 'Optimierung des Supply Chain Informationsaustauschs mit Blockchain-Startups', in Digitalisierung in der Praxis : so schaffen KMU den Weg in die Zukunft. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 209–221. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-26137-5_14.