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Carsten Sørensen

Professor

Subjects
Decentralisation Innovation Startup Business intelligence Digitalisation Robot

Primary research areas

Di­git­ally me­di­ated poly­centri­city
The web has pro­duced glob­ally cent­ral­ized plat­forms, but emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies can sup­port in­nov­at­ive poly­centric ar­range­ments through new in­fra­struc­tur­ing. Here, the emer­gence of dis­trib­uted ledger in­fra­struc­tures that can serve as the found­a­tion of co­oper­at­ive busi­ness ar­range­ments.
Token­iz­a­tion of di­git­al as­sets into col­lect­ive claims
The crit­ic­al­ity of di­git­al data in busi­ness re­la­tion­ships rep­res­ents an op­por­tun­ity for in­nov­a­tion through token­iz­a­tion. The re­search aims to con­trib­ute to a the­or­et­ic­al de­bate on the re­shap­ing of poly­centric busi­ness eco­sys­tems through token­iz­a­tion. This re­search has pro­duced a token­iz­a­tion can­vas to sup­port or­gan­iz­a­tions in this work.
Un­pack­ing AI com­plex­ity
Much of con­tem­por­ary AI re­search as­sumes mono­centric en­tity en­ga­ging with a black box. This re­search in­vest­ig­ates multi-agent ar­range­ments en­ga­ging mul­tiple hu­man act­ors. As an ex­ample, the ana­lys­is of Uber pat­ents in or­der to map out multi-agent del­eg­a­tion of hu­mans.

I aim to bring busi­ness and re­search to­geth­er

I have since the late 1980s studied the digital transformation of organizations and the innovation of global Internet arrangements. This has covered topics, such as enterprise adoption of mobile technologies, remote and virtual working, the future of work with emerging digitalization, digital platform innovation strategies, blockchain technologies for business, as well as cyber-physical couplings through the Internet of Things, robotics, and digital twins. 

Throughout my work I have always worked with organizations in various capacities as board member, C-suite educator, white-paper author, keynote speaker, and consultant. I worked for 28 years in the UK was here collaborating with a large number of firms, for example, Gartner, Google, Huawei, Intel, IMF, Mastercard, Microsoft, and PA Consulting. I spent three years as a member of the Hedera Council. I have also actively engaged with start-ups in various ways as co-founder, advisor, mentor, or assessor. 

It is my strong conviction that the complex challenges of gaining organizational value through digital transformation requires expertise equally grounded in practice and academia.

March 2025

When Algorithms Delegate to Humans

Exploring Human-Algorithm Interaction at Uber

Marta Stelmaszak

Mareike Möhlmann

Car­sten Sø­ren­sen, Professor

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2025

Digital Infrastructures in the Roaring Twenties

Taking Stock and Moving Forward

Roser Pujadas

Kalle Lyytinen

Car­sten Sø­ren­sen, Professor

Will Venters

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2025

Tokenization

A Foundation for Digitized Inter-organizational Relationships

Car­sten Sø­ren­sen, Professor

Christophe Viguerie

Thamim Ahmed

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Recent research projects

Token­iz­a­tion Can­vas

Sup­port for firms in their ef­forts to es­tab­lish multi-party col­lab­or­a­tion. The pro­ject will sub­sequently be tested with­in the con­text of the EU Di­git­al Product Pass­port.
http://Report.TokenizationCanvas.com

Outside activities

Hedera Coun­cil Mem­ber , 2021 - 2024

Rep­res­ent­ing The Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Polit­ic­al Sci­ence on the Hedera.com Gov­ern­ing Coun­cil

Trust­ee , 2015 - 2024

Trust­ee of IT Trust, hold­ing rights & copy­right for Journ­al of IT and Journ­al of Tech­no­logy Teach­ing Cases.

Dir­ect­or, Verbal Pier­cing Ltd , 2004 -

Dir­ect­or of a small UK lim­ited com­pany