Prof. Dr. Horst Treiblmaier is a Professor in International Management at MODUL University Vienna, Austria. He received a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems in 2001 from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria and worked as a Visiting Professor at Purdue University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of British Columbia (UBC), and the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS). He has more than fifteen years of experience as a researcher and consultant and has worked on projects with Microsoft, Google, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). His research interests include the economic and business implications of Blockchain, cryptoeconomics, methodological and epistemological problems of social science research and gamification. Currently he serves on the board of the “City of Blockchain”, an association promoting the Blockchain and cryptographic technologies. His research has appeared in journals such as Information Systems Journal, Structural Equation Modeling, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Information & Management, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Global Information Management, Schmalenbach Business Review, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Logistics Management and Wirtschaftsinformatik (Business & Information Systems Engineering).