Alex Murray

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 662 citations indexed

About

Alex Murray is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Information Systems and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Murray has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 662 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Management Information Systems, 6 papers in Information Systems and 5 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Alex Murray's work include FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (9 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (5 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 papers). Alex Murray is often cited by papers focused on FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (9 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (5 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 papers). Alex Murray collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Spain. Alex Murray's co-authors include David G. Sirmon, Greg Fisher, Matthew Josefy, Scott Kuban, Jon E. Anderson, Suresh Kotha, Benjamin L. Hallen, Jason P. Davis, Vivianna Fang He and Lauren Lanahan and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science.

In The Last Decade

Alex Murray

17 papers receiving 642 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations

2020 254 citations Alex Murray, David G. Sirmon et al. Academy of Management Review profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Murray United States	8	215	176	152	133	92	17	662
Sebastian Schuetz United States	11	190 0.9×	324 1.8×	263 1.7×	146 1.1×	92 1.0×	24	820
Mark Fenwick Japan	13	130 0.6×	153 0.9×	112 0.7×	98 0.7×	88 1.0×	73	585
Donald Heath United States	7	110 0.5×	78 0.4×	150 1.0×	116 0.9×	98 1.1×	14	705
Mateusz Dolata Switzerland	13	207 1.0×	139 0.8×	158 1.0×	46 0.3×	90 1.0×	47	688
Stella Pachidi United Kingdom	9	242 1.1×	123 0.7×	296 1.9×	144 1.1×	51 0.6×	17	960
Evgeny Káganer Spain	11	163 0.8×	102 0.6×	297 2.0×	275 2.1×	76 0.8×	21	852
Muhammad Farrukh Shahzad China	19	71 0.3×	92 0.5×	142 0.9×	122 0.9×	80 0.9×	54	864
Kholekile L. Gwebu United States	14	137 0.6×	178 1.0×	221 1.5×	169 1.3×	54 0.6×	23	759
Mona Ashok United Kingdom	8	102 0.5×	79 0.4×	125 0.8×	177 1.3×	42 0.5×	9	684
Erin E. Makarius United States	11	107 0.5×	67 0.4×	162 1.1×	302 2.3×	80 0.9×	22	867

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Murray

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17 of 17 papers shown

Lanahan, Lauren, et al.. (2025). Tracing entrepreneurial spillovers: Evidence from the U.S. State Small Business Credit initiative and Kickstarter. Research Policy. 54(4). 105197–105197. 2 indexed citations

Murray, Alex, et al.. (2025). Contending with Perceived Legitimacy Tensions: Impact Investing in Pluralistic Institutional Environments. Journal of Management Studies. 63(1). 232–269. 1 indexed citations

Murray, Alex. (2024). Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. Administrative Science Quarterly. 69(4). NP84–NP87. 1 indexed citations

He, Vivianna Fang, et al.. (2024). The Crowd Beyond Funders: An Integrative Review of and Research Agenda for Crowdfunding. Academy of Management Annals. 18(1). 348–394. 12 indexed citations

Murray, Alex, et al.. (2024). Navigating the challenges of generative technologies: Proposing the integration of artificial intelligence and blockchain. Business Horizons. 67(5). 525–535. 15 indexed citations

Murray, Alex, et al.. (2022). The Promise of a Better Internet: What Is Web 3.0 and What Are We Building?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

Murray, Alex, et al.. (2022). The promise of a decentralized internet: What is Web3 and how can firms prepare?. Business Horizons. 66(2). 191–202. 92 indexed citations

Murray, Alex & Greg Fisher. (2022). When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures. Organization Science. 34(1). 246–282. 27 indexed citations

Murray, Alex, et al.. (2021). The Processes Behind Pivots: Behavioral Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Change and Adaptation. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2021(1). 16025–16025. 1 indexed citations

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Murray, Alex, et al.. (2020). Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations. Academy of Management Review. 46(3). 552–571. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murray, Alex, Suresh Kotha, & Greg Fisher. (2020). Community-Based Resource Mobilization: How Entrepreneurs Acquire Resources from Distributed Non-Professionals via Crowdfunding. Organization Science. 31(4). 960–989. 65 indexed citations

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Lu, Chang, et al.. (2020). Decentralized Organizational Theory: Distributed Trust and Blockchain. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2020(1). 12046–12046. 1 indexed citations

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Hallen, Benjamin L., Jason P. Davis, & Alex Murray. (2020). Entrepreneurial Network Evolution: Explicating the Structural Localism and Agentic Network Change Distinction. Academy of Management Annals. 14(2). 1067–1102. 43 indexed citations

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Murray, Alex. (2019). Competition as a Teaching Strategy.. 11(1). 13–16. 1 indexed citations

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Murray, Alex, Scott Kuban, Matthew Josefy, & Jon E. Anderson. (2019). Contracting in the Smart Era: The Implications of Blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations for Contracting and Corporate Governance. Academy of Management Perspectives. 35(4). 622–641. 141 indexed citations

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Murray, Alex, Benjamin L. Hallen, & Suresh Kotha. (2018). Withholding signals of experience and expertise in resource acquisition efforts via crowdfunding. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018(1). 18518–18518. 2 indexed citations

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Murray, Alex, Suresh Kotha, & Greg Fisher. (2015). "Persuading Crowds: Mindset, Learning, and Influence Mechanisms in Crowdfunding Campaigns". Academy of Management Proceedings. 2015(1). 18344–18344. 1 indexed citations

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