# Magnus van Haaren

PhD candidate in Management.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Department of Technology and Operations Management.

I study how people and algorithms organize together: who gets a say, how authority takes shape, and what collective decisions leave behind. I’m interested in what our ways of organizing make possible—and what they leave outside the question.

## Research

### What the Vote Leaves Behind: Preference-Outcome Histories and Later Direct Ballots
Authors: Magnus van Haaren, Helge Klapper, Daan Stam
Status: Work in progress
Approach: Longitudinal analysis · DAOs
Focus: Using longitudinal DAO voting records, we examine how members’ preference-outcome histories relate to whether and when they vote again.
Research overview: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/research#what-the-vote-leaves-behind

### Time-Symmetric Authority: Anticipated Evaluation, Power, and Collective Search
Authors: Magnus van Haaren, Daan A. Stam
Status: Working paper
Approach: Agent-based simulation
Focus: We model how anticipated evaluation shapes present authority, collective search, and participation.
Research overview: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/research#time-symmetric-authority

### Algorithmic Allies: Decentralized Autonomous Agents in the Era of Grand Challenges
Authors: Magnus van Haaren, Murat Tarakci
Status: Working paper
Approach: Conceptual research
Focus: We theorize how autonomous agents and code-based authority reshape coordination and decision rights across organizational boundaries.
Research overview: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/research#algorithmic-allies

### Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Can Decision Structures Enhance Participation?
Authors: Magnus van Haaren, Helge Klapper
Status: Conference paper
Year: 2025
Venue: Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Public conference paper: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109402
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2025.556

### Reducing the Impact of Misalignment: Decentralized Decision-Making Structures
Authors: Magnus van Haaren
Status: Conference abstract
Year: 2024
Venue: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1)
Public conference abstract: https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/reducing-the-impact-of-misalignment-decentralized-decision-making/
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.18879abstract

## Profile and contact

Research interests: Organizational design; decentralized and algorithmic organizing; authority and collective search; participation in collective decision-making.
Methods: longitudinal and panel analysis, event-history analysis, and agent-based simulation.

Website: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/
Academic CV (PDF): https://magnusvanhaaren.org/Magnus_van_Haaren_CV.pdf
Academic CV (HTML): https://magnusvanhaaren.org/cv
Research: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/research
Teaching: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/teaching
Talks: https://magnusvanhaaren.org/talks
Email: vanhaaren@rsm.nl