Mary Lacity

Dr. Mary Lacity is a Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, and holds the David D. Glass Endowed Chair. She is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics for Spring 2025.

• Director of Walton College’s Blockchain Center of Excellence (2014-2019)
• Former Curators’ Distinguished Professor at University of Missouri
• Holds visiting positions at MIT, Washington University, and Oxford University
• Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive
• Contributing Editor for Journal of the British Blockchain Association

Her research focuses on enterprise adoption of emerging technologies, particularly blockchain, metaverse, service automation, and ethical technology use. She has conducted extensive case studies and surveys on automation and Web3 implementation across hundreds of organizations globally.

Recent publications include books like Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds (2024) and Blockchain Fundamentals for the Web 3.0 (2022). She has over 30 books and 26,300 Google Scholar citations (h-index: 68).

• 2014: Inducted into IAOP’s Outsourcing Hall of Fame
• 2024: Recognized as top 2% scholar in Business and Management (Stanford)
• 2024: Top 1% scholar in Business and Management (ScholarGPS)
• Fellow of the Association of Information Systems

She actively contributes to blockchain standards via the Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI) of the Global Blockchain Business Council and the Linux Foundation’s Trust over IP (ToIP). Her work bridges academic research and practical applications in enterprise technology adoption.