Agnes Yang

Research Profile

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee. My research focuses on how emerging technologies transform governance and market decisions via disintermediation; i.e., removing a central authority or intermediaries.

Specifically, my dissertation aims to address two research problems, in the context of decentralized platforms built on blockchains:

(i) potentials and limitations of decentralized, community governance in DAO*s

(ii) reducing gender and racial pricing disparity in NFT** art market

by eliminating intermediaries such as managers and art galleries.

By exploring the potential and limitations of blockchain technologies, I aim to guide organizations and marketplaces toward better adoption of decentralized systems suited to their objectives.

*DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organization

**NFT: Non-fungible Tokens