Mary Lacity

Dr. Mary C. Lacity is the Visiting Scholar (London School of Economics); David D. Glass Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She served as the Director of the Walton College’s Blockchain Center of Excellence for five years. She was previously Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri.  She has held visiting positions at MIT, the London School of Economics, Washington University, and Oxford University. She is a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive, a Contributing Editor for Journal of the British Blockchain Association, member of the Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI) of the Global Blockchain Business Alliance (GBBC), a fellow of the Association of Information Systems (AIS), a member of the Linux Foundation’s Trust over IP (ToIP). Her recent research focuses on improving business services using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cognitive Automation (CA),and blockchain technologies.   She has conducted case studies and surveys of hundreds of organizations on their adoption journeys. She has given keynote speeches and executive seminars worldwide and has served as an expert witness for the US Congress.   She has published over 30 books, most recently, co-editing Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2024) with (Lynda Coon),  co-authoring Blockchain Fundamentals for the Web 3.0 (2022) with Steve Lupien; and co-editing Blockchains and the Token Economy (2022) with Horst Treiblmaier. Her publications have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM, and many other academic and practitioner outlets. According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited over 24,000 times, with an h-index of 64. Recognized by a Stanford University study and Research.com as among the top 2% of scholars in Business and Management