Dr. Michael Lustenberger

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

• Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
• Blockchain Technologies for Business Application
• Industrie 4.0 & Digitale Transformation
• Supply Chain Management
• Lean Management

Teaching

• Operations and Process Management
• Supply Chain Management

Experience

• Supply Chain Manager
  AGROSID Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
  07 / 2012 - 05 / 2015
• External Consultant
  Kimberly-Clark Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
  11 / 2013 - 05 / 2014
• Operations Manager
  AAS Freight AG (Zürich, Switzerland)
  02 / 2009 - 05 / 2012
• Product & Project Manager
  CVA Management & Consulting AG (Zürich, Schweiz)
  09 / 2000 - 05 / 2012

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) / Business Administration
  Middlesex University London
  05 / 2015 - 03 / 2023
• Master of Science (MSc) / Operations and Supply Chain Management
  University of Liverpool (UK)
  05 / 2012 - 07 / 2014
• Master of Arts (MA) / History, Political Science & International Law
  University of Zürich
  09 / 2000 - 06 / 2005

Continuing Education

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW School of Management & Law
07 / 2017

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1503-6826

Projects

• Data Center at Home / Project leader / laufend
• Collaborative networks: The evolution of project work in a digital world with DAOs / Co-project leader / laufend
• Inno Booster Blockchain Breezing / Deputy project leader / laufend
• Decentralised Decision-Making in DAOs: Learnings for Digital Democracy / Co-project leader / laufend
• Self-organization as a driver of e-participation: DAOs and their potential for social participation / Project leader / laufend
• Agroforestry Carbon Token System / Project leader / laufend
• Tokenomics framework for the governance of decentralised autonomous organisations / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen
• Inno Booster Blockchain FTWinnerdApp / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen
• Inno Booster Blockchain DMRV Biogas / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• DAO Radar Switzerland / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen
• DAOify - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• MetaRoom / Deputy project leader / abgeschlossen
• RightFootForward – Innovative business model with the possibility to donate based on blockchain technology / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• Build-Your-Own DAO – Designing and Implementing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• no1s1 - A house owned by no one but itself / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Blockchain Technology in Interorganizational Collaboration / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• A Governance Framework for the Swiss Blockchain Ecosystem / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• Supernodes in the dHealth Network / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Decentralized Registration and Trading Platform for Emission Certificates / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• Expert Group of the Swiss Alliance for Data-intensive (NTN-Network) / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Spychiger, Florian; Lustenberger, Michael; Martignoni, Jens; Schädler, Lukas; Lehner, Patrick,

  2023.

  Organizing projects with blockchain through a decentralized autonomous organization.

  Project Leadership and Society.

  4(100102).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2023.100102

• Schädler, Lukas; Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian,

  2023.

  Analyzing decision-making in blockchain governance.

  Frontiers in Blockchain.

  23(6).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1256651

• Lustenberger, Michael; Malešević , Saša; Spychiger, Florian,

  2021.

  Ecosystem readiness : blockchain adoption is driven externally.

  Frontiers in Blockchain.

  4(720454).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.720454

• Malešević, Saša; Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian,

  2020.

  Applying distributed ledger concepts to a Swiss regional label ecosystem.

  Logistics.

  4(32).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics4040032

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Taylor, Michael,

  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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26137-5_14

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Küng, Lukas,

  2024.

  Designing a decentralized autonomous organization [paper].

  In:

  ECIS 2024 Proceedings.

  32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Paphos, Cyprus, 13-19 June 2024.

  Association for Information Systems.

  Available from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track16_fintech/track16_fintech/6/

• Martignoni, Jens; Spychiger, Florian; Lustenberger, Michael; Lehner, Patrick,

  2023.

  Decentralizing project management by a DAO : a first attempt [paper].

  In:

  23rd EURAM Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 14-16 June 2023.

• Spychiger, Florian; Lustenberger, Michael,

  2022.

  Decision-making in blockchains [paper].

  In:

  22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25564

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Malešević, Saša,

  2020.

  Towards a better understanding of the value of blockchains in supply chain management [paper].

  In:

  Information Systems : 16th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, Proceedings.

  16th European Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 9-10 December 2019.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 101-112.

  Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 381.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_8

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Küng, Lukas; Cuadra, Pedro,

  2024.

  Mastering DAOs : a practical guidebook for building and managing decentralized autonomous organizations.

  2nd revised edition.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2543

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian; Küng, Lukas; Bassi, Eleonóra; Wollenschläger, Sabrina,

  2024.

  DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO Workshop (DAWO).

  SSRN.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4944742

• Lustenberger, Michael; Spychiger, Florian,

  2019.

  Blockchain als Grundlage des Informationsaustausches.

  Fokus Swiss.

  Available from: https://fokus.swiss/2019/07/03/blockchain-als-grundlage-des-informationsaustausches/

• Heim, Edgar; Miszak, Frederik; Lustenberger, Michael,

  2017.

  Zero Inventory – ein überholtes Konzept? : sind tiefe Lagerbestände wirklich ertragssteigernd?.

  Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb.

  112(10), pp. 666-669.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3139/104.111805

• Ehrat, Matthias; Lustenberger, Michael,

  2016.

  Risiko von "Industrie 4.0".

  Competence.

  2010(7), pp. 34-36.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/ueber-uns/sml-magazin-competence-nr7.pdf

• Lustenberger, Michael,

  2018.

  Blockchain-Technologie im Supply Chain Management.

  In:

  F&E-Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Brugg-Windisch, 15. Januar 2018.

  Available from: http://www.industrie2025.ch/agenda/fe-konferenz-2018.html

• Lustenberger, Michael,

  2017.

  Blockchain-Technologie in Supply Chain Management.

  In:

  Zweite F&E Konferenz zur Industrie 4.0, Winterthur, 11. Januar 2017.

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