# DAO Governance Examples - Resources - Research Papers
**URL:** https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111
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**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111 "2023-07-19T10:51:18Z")
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### Author:  [@RedRabbit33](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/RedRabbit33)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111/1 "2023-07-19T10:51:18Z")
HydraDX Governance
> **[HydraDX Council | HydraDX Docs](https://docs.hydradx.io/democracy_council/)**
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> The HydraDX Council is an on-chain entity which plays a key role in the governance of the protocol. This article provides information on the composition of the Council, its main tasks, and the election of Council members.
Kuji Governance
> **[The Kujira Senate](https://docs.kujira.app/governance/the-kujira-senate)**
Algorand Goveranance
> **[xGov](https://www.algorand.foundation/xgov)**
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> The xGov program is the next step in the evolution of Algorand's governance and our journey towards responsible decentralization.
Original Shade Protocol Whitepaper - Shade Protocol: Comprehensive
Governance & Ethics
> **[aAMeX7kkaxljkFRXRIN4CElVJbo~pEHSkrNceWvWuHWRiNuOD\_CQEuYf\_tS-dLtgATuz0QY.pdf](https://framerusercontent.com/modules/assets/aAMeX7kkaxljkFRXRIN4CElVJbo~pEHSkrNceWvWuHWRiNuOD_CQEuYf_tS-dLtgATuz0QY.pdf)**
DAO governance models: A beginner’s guide 2023
> **[DAO governance models: A beginner’s guide 2023](https://mpost.io/dao-governance-models-a-beginners-guide/)**
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> When it comes to DAOs, there is no one-size-fits-all governance model. The governance model that a DAO chooses will be based on a number of factors,
DAO Research Collective - Defunct?
> **[DAO Research Collective](https://daocollective.xyz/advanced-search/)**
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> The DAO Research Collective (DRC) accelerates DAO functionality by procuring and open-sourcing research foundational to effective DAO operation, and we make the process more efficient by pooling capital and data from multiple DAO stakeholders.
**Articles**
Decentralized Governance and the Lessons of Corporate Governance
> **[Decentralized Governance and the Lessons of Corporate Governance](https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/06/04/decentralized-governance-and-the-lessons-of-corporate-governance/)**
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> Read our latest post from Wachtell Attorneys Kevin Schwartz and David Adlerstein.
**Research Papers**
DAO Governance
_“Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are entities without central leadership that operate based on a set of decision-making rules encoded into smart contracts using blockchain technology. In this study, we develop a theoretical model of DAO governance featuring strategic token trading under token-based voting to investigate potential conflicts of interest between a large participant (a “whale”) and many small participants. Our results show that ownership concentration can have a negative effect on platform growth, but platform size, token illiquidity, and long-term incentives can mitigate the negative effects. We confirm these predictions using novel voting data on over 200 DAOs between 2020 and 2022.”_
Link: [https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=678082123029031093082110098083065072038085068087057087092125118025099093018122122108004058037124017005016066125002078095071004001043044046028093065002122099019023024035095027081120118127086000013111115000096066029089092077006017070006083122067125074&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE](https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=678082123029031093082110098083065072038085068087057087092125118025099093018122122108004058037124017005016066125002078095071004001043044046028093065002122099019023024035095027081120118127086000013111115000096066029089092077006017070006083122067125074&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE)
A Survey on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and
Their Governance
_"Decentralized Autonomous Organizations or DAOs are organizations governed by a set of pre-defined rules programmed as source code in smart contracts. Once implemented, a DAO can automatically_
_execute tasks, coordinate, and facilitate decentralized decision-making, without any central authority. This new and emerging paradigm is still under development and has not been researched much until today. To our knowledge the literature still lacks a comprehensive survey discussing DAOs and DAO governance. We conduct a systematic review of common characteristics, a DAO categorization, real world DAO applications, DAO governance including voting schemes and dispute resolution mechanisms in DAOs to provide an initial overview. We anticipate that our work can provide useful insights and references for researchers and industrial practitioners who wish to delve deeper into this nascent area."_
Link: [https://sussblockchain.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSRN-id4378966.pdf](https://sussblockchain.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSRN-id4378966.pdf)
The Economics of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
_"The advent of blockchain, smart contracts, and Web3 has empowered new concepts for equity partnerships with autonomous operating systems and democratic corporate governance._
_This paper explores 2,377 of such new partnerships and uses detailed transaction data (from 2017 through 2022) to examine the performance of so-called decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) on Ethereum. As a result, I find that DAOs with greater participation_
_rates in voting are associated with superior performance. Small members are a prevalent and important class of investors, while the degree of decentralization in DAOs (ownership concentration) plays only a minor role in firm valuation. Overall, DAOs are an effective organizational structure, when members take an active interest in the venture."_
Link: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valerie-Laturnus/publication/367417422\_The\_Economics\_of\_Decentralized\_Autonomous\_Organizations/links/6422ea2992cfd54f84354fe5/The-Economics-of-Decentralized-Autonomous-Organizations.pdf](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valerie-Laturnus/publication/367417422_The_Economics_of_Decentralized_Autonomous_Organizations/links/6422ea2992cfd54f84354fe5/The-Economics-of-Decentralized-Autonomous-Organizations.pdf)
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### Author:  [@Govmos](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/Govmos)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111/2 "2023-07-20T12:22:53Z")
Don’t know if this could be of any use, but that’s the research we made after the ATOM 2.0 treasury management proposition. Some of the key takeways could apply to general DAO governance topics.
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### Author:  [@RedRabbit33](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/RedRabbit33)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111/3 "2023-07-20T13:07:05Z")
Very helpful and useful!
I started this thread with the intent and hope that it would be a place for people to share resources with one another. Just failed to communicate that.
😃
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### Author:  [@Govmos](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/Govmos)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111/4 "2023-07-20T13:17:28Z")
Your sources on the main post were guide good and I’ve added a few to my precious bookmarks 😉 So thanks for sharing
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### Author:  [@RedRabbit33](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/RedRabbit33)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/dao-governance-examples-resources-research-papers/111/5 "2023-07-21T01:12:37Z")
**DAOs & Co-ops: How to learn from the past to create viable economic communities for the future**
Abstract: _“This research explores how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and Cooperative (Co-op) models can learn from each other to impact the future of community and opportunity. The findings are grounded in human-centred design, systems thinking, foresight and innovation by comparing and contrasting the two models. The insights & accessible pathways uncovered will contribute to creating healthy communities and equitable opportunities as the internet evolves. Furthermore, the results may inspire and guide future community builders and member-centred creators within emergent online spaces. Both DAOs and Co-ops have similar ambitions and starting points, and each has strengths that can complement the other’s weaknesses. The goal is to highlight that DAOs and Co-ops have more similarities than differences and can work together to create a more equitable society.”_
Link: [https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3985/1/Yuhas\_Alyssa\_2023\_MDes\_SFI\_MRP.pdf](https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3985/1/Yuhas_Alyssa_2023_MDes_SFI_MRP.pdf)
**Governance of blockchain based decentralized applications: an exploratory study**
_“Indeed, a decentralized infrastructure does not necessarily entail a decentralized governance structure, on the contrary the lack of a central authority leaves the system to be more easily co-opted by external forces (de Filippi, 2020).”_ p56
Link: [https://www.politesi.polimi.it/bitstream/10589/197427/4/Governance%20of%20blockchain-based%20decentralized%20applications%20an%20exploratory%20study\_%20thesis%20of%20Mendolia%20Niccolò.pdf](https://www.politesi.polimi.it/bitstream/10589/197427/4/Governance%20of%20blockchain-based%20decentralized%20applications%20an%20exploratory%20study_%20thesis%20of%20Mendolia%20Niccol%C3%B2.pdf)
**How Decentralized is Decentralized Governance?**
Link: [How Decentralized is Decentralized Governance?](https://defiprime.com/how-decentralized-is-decentralized-governance)
**Blockchain Governance: De Facto (x) or Designed?**
Link: [https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bestchai/papers/2021-bchain-governance.pdf](https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bestchai/papers/2021-bchain-governance.pdf)
**Task management in decentralized autonomous**
**organization**
_“Harnessing both online and on-chain data from seven sources, we empirically examine how voting task division, task allocation, reward distribution, and information provision affect platform performance in the context of MakerDAO (an Ethereum-based stablecoin issuance platform). Our findings reveal that strategic decisions arrived at through voting have a positive impact on platform operational performance under certain conditions, whereas operational decisions resulting from voting have a negative impact.”_
Link: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xi-Zhao-70/publication/360069301\_Task\_management\_in\_decentralized\_autonomous\_organization/links/6268ee4c1b747d19c2abe022/Task-management-in-decentralized-autonomous-organization.pdf](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xi-Zhao-70/publication/360069301_Task_management_in_decentralized_autonomous_organization/links/6268ee4c1b747d19c2abe022/Task-management-in-decentralized-autonomous-organization.pdf)
**DECENTRALIZED SUSTAINABILITY – BEYOND THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS WITH SMART CONTRACTS + AI**
Link: [Tragedy of the Commons | Self-organization | Elinor Ostrum | Blockchain](https://enliveningedge.org/tools-practices/decentralized-sustainability-beyond-tragedy-commons-smart-contracts-ai/)
**Application of IAD Principles to the DAO structure**
Link: [Application of IAD Principles to the DAO structure](https://defiprime.com/application-of-iad-principles-to-the-dao-structure)
**A Decentralized Fair Governance Model for Permissionless Blockchain Systems**
Link: [https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2835/paper3.pdf](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2835/paper3.pdf)
**A Decision Model for Decentralized Autonomous Organization Platform Selection: Three Industry Case Studies**
Link: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353567765\_A\_Decision\_Model\_for\_Decentralized\_Autonomous\_Organization\_Platform\_Selection\_Three\_Industry\_Case\_Studies](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353567765_A_Decision_Model_for_Decentralized_Autonomous_Organization_Platform_Selection_Three_Industry_Case_Studies)
**OsmoCon 2022 Panel: Osmosis SubDaos and Governance” Mike Barb (OSL, mod.), Stephen94K (OMM), EmperorOsmo (Hathor Nodes), George Beall (Commonwealth)**
Link: [Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.](https://whimsical-lightning-304.notion.site/Osmocon-Panel-Osmosis-SubDaos-and-Governance-Mike-Barb-OSL-mod-Stephen94K-OMM-EmperorOsm-3694234fd3c5498caa39ffed5fbea78d)