POLICY AND PRACTICE REVIEWS article
Front. Blockchain
Sec. Blockchain in Industry
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbloc.2025.1624004
Not just code: A framework for community governance and management in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Provisionally accepted
- 1Paulista University, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2Faculty of Tourism and Rural Development, Požega, Croatia
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The concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) has introduced a novel paradigm in organizational governance, characterized by more collaborative decision-making. However, the lack of established organizational frameworks for DAOs presents significant challenges to their constitution, stability, and longevity. Aiming to address this shortcoming, this paper presents a conceptual framework to guide the design of the community governance structure of DAOs. To achieve this aim, we employed two complementary methods: firstly, we conducted a systematic literature review about DAOs and community governance; secondly, we conducted an analysis of the governance methods employed by five DAOs operating in public blockchain ecosystems. The proposed framework provides a valuable tool for DAO founders, developers, and community members to design and implement effective governance structures and contributes to the understanding of DAO governance and further research.
Keywords: Blockchain, Digital business, Human-machine agency, stakeholder engagement, Tokenized economy
Received: 06 May 2025; Accepted: 12 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Bridi, Andrlić and Gonçalves. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Thomaz Henrique Viaro Bridi, Paulista University, São Paulo, Brazil
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