Organizations increasingly manage distributed decision-making and systemic complexity through blockchain technologies that function as operating systems by embedding governance mechanisms into digital infrastructures. These systems are being advanced with artificial intelligence to monitor and shape behavior. Despite blockchain-based operating systems being adopted in platforms, supply chains, and decentralized autonomous organizations, their implications for organizational administration, governance, and control remain poorly understood.
This special issue invites research that advances administrative and organizational understanding of blockchain-based operating systems with AI-enabled complexity. The call welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous contributions including empirical studies and theory-building papers that offer clear organizational insights and engage meaningfully with blockchain and AI as organizational infrastructures.