Professors

Xule LIN

Assistant Professor

Human–AI collaboration, Organizational theory, Algorithmic organizing and governance, AI-augmented qualitative research, Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)

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Xule LIN

Academy

Digitalization

Research center

SKEMA Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Location

Paris

Discipline

Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Xule Lin is Assistant Professor at SKEMA Business School, in the Digitalisation Academy and the SKEMA Centre for Artificial Intelligence. He earned his PhD in Management and Entrepreneurship from Imperial Business School; his doctoral research on token-enabled coordination in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) received the Professor Mike Wright Memorial Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis and the 2024 Strategic Management Society PhD Paper Prize. He studies what becomes impossible to see when algorithms enter organizational life — not as tools, but as participants — and builds the qualitative methods and open-source tools for that work alongside the models themselves. His current work focuses on the shift toward artificial organizing, where artificial actors actively compose organizations alongside humans. From token-based governance to interpretive orchestration (Strategic Organization, 2026), he returns to a single puzzle: organizations can now articulate more than they know how to verify.

Education
2025
PhD, Management and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
2016
Master of Science in Accountancy, University of Notre Dame, United States of America
2015
Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, University of Notre Dame, United States of America
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2026
Assistant Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
Other professional experiences
Since 2025
Research Associate, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
2018 - 2019
Graduate Student Researcher, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States of America
2016 - 2018
Staff, Ernst & Young, United States of America
2015 - 2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Notre Dame, United States of America
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2026
Professor Mike Wright Memorial Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
2024
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society, United States of America
Research Grants
2025
Anthropic Claude for Education — student builder program (API credits), Anthropic, United States of America
2024
Cohere for AI Research Grant Program (API credits), Cohere, Canada
2024
OpenAI Researcher Access Program (API credits), OpenAI, United States of America
2023
Google Cloud Research Credits Program, Award GCP19980904, Google Cloud, United States of America
2023
Gitcoin Grants Round 19 — Governance Research Round by Metagov, Metagov, United States of America
Other research activities
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
Since 2024
Organizer, Human & Artificial Intelligence in Organizations (HAIO) Symposium: Interdisciplinary Impact, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
Affiliations
Since 2023
Student Representative, London⁺ Qualitative Community (L⁺QC), London+ Qualitative Community, Great Britain
Since 2023
Student Representative, Decentralization in Organization (DiO) Community, Decentralization in Organizations (DiO)
2021 - 2022
CARMA Ph.D. Representative, Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis, United States of America
Other academic activities
Since 2026
Breakout Facilitator, 'AI Across the Research Pipeline: Principles and Applications', SMS Virtual Workshop Conference (Research Methods Community), Strategic Management Society, United States of America
Since 2024
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Data for Policy 2024 Conference, Data for Policy
Since 2024
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society, United States of America
Since 2022
Reviewer, Academy of Management Discoveries Special Research Forum: 'The Human Side of the Future of Work', Academy of Management, United States of America
Since 2021
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Academy of Management, United States of America