Lukas Küng
Lukas Küng
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Institute for Organizational Viability
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Associate Blockchain & DAOs
Focus
Blockchain & Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Teaching
Research Associate Blockchain & DAOs
Experience
- Research Associate
ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
08 / 2025 - today - Research Assistant
ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
11 / 2022 - 07 / 2025 - Managing Partner
Burrow GbR, Agentur für Visuelle Kommunikation und Digitalprodukte
04 / 2015 - 11 / 2022
Education and Continuing education
Education
- M.A. / Leadership in Digital Communication/Innovation
University of the Arts Berlin in cooperation with the University St. Gallen
10 / 2018 - 11 / 2021 - B.A. / Visual Communication
Berlin University of the Arts
10 / 2010 - 02 / 2015
Continuing Education
Executive Education – Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application
MIT Sloan School of Management
10 / 2022
Network
Membership of networks
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Decentralised Decision-Making in DAOs: Learnings for Digital Democracy / Team member / ongoing
- Collaborative networks: The evolution of project work in a digital world with DAOs / Team member / completed
- Inno Booster Blockchain Breezing / Team member / completed
- Tokenomics framework for the governance of decentralised autonomous organisations / Team member / completed
- DAO Radar Switzerland / Team member / completed
- RightFootForward – Innovative business model with the possibility to donate based on blockchain technology / Team member / completed
- Build-Your-Own DAO – Designing and Implementing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Lustenberger, M., Wollenschläger, S. and Küng, L. (2025) 'DAO as digital governance tool for collaborative housing', Frontiers in Blockchain, 8(1523951). doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2025.1523951.
- 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.
Book chapters, 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.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Küng, L. (eds) (2025) Decentralized autonomous organizations – governance, technology, and legal perspectives : proceedings of the 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zürich, Switzerland, 2025, 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zurich, Switzerland, 23-24 June 2025. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-03273-7.
- Küng, L., Lustenberger, M. and Spychiger, F. (2024) 'Decision-making in a more-than-human world', in Blockchain Kaigi, Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 September 2024.
- Spychiger, F. et al. (2024) 'Governance and maintenance for a DAO with physical assets : an agent-based model', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/COINS61597.2024.10622115.
- Küng, L. and Giaglis, G. M. (2024) 'DAOs" business value from an open systems perspective : a best-fit framework synthesis', in European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Winterthur, Switzerland, 4-5 July 2024. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.12445.
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F. and Küng, L. (2024) 'Designing a decentralized autonomous organization', in ECIS 2024 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems. Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track16_fintech/track16_fintech/6/.
Other publications
- Lustenberger, M. et al. (2024) Mastering DAOs : a practical guidebook for building and managing decentralized autonomous organizations. 2nd revised edition. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2543.
- Lustenberger, M. et al. (2024) DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO Workshop (DAWO). SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4944742.