Institutional trust in blockchain adoption: examining regulatory focus

Zhen Shao is a Professor of Information Systems (IS) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at the School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. She worked as a Visiting Scholar in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, USA. Her research primarily focuses on enterprise information systems assimilation, digital innovation, and artificial intelligence. Her work has been published in leading OM and IS journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Electronic Commerce and Research Applications, Internet Research, Behaviour & Information Technology, Computers in Human Behavior, and Industrial Management & Data Systems, and presented at leading conferences including the INFORMS Annual Conference, International Conference on Information Systems, Americas Conference on Information Systems, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, and the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. Zhen is recognized as a Highly Cited Scholar in China by Elsevier 2023–2025 and the Top 2% Global Scientists list published by Stanford University and Elsevier 2022-2025.

Dr. Muhammad Usman is PhD Candidate School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology China and Faculty Member of NUST Business School National University of Sciences and Technology H-12 Islamabad Pakistan. He has worked as Assistant Director Administration and Coordination NIPS Main Office NUST. Beside this academic and administrative work, he has published research articles in journals such as Environment Science and Pollution Research Springer, Energy and Environment SAGE, Cogent Economics and Finance Taylor & Francis and Emerald. He is also working in NUML School of Business as visiting faculty. He is currently working on Blockchain Technology, Financial Technology, Information System and International Financial Institutions.

Tuo Zhao is a PhD Candidate of IS at the School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His research interests cover the influence of digital technologies on the design, management and monitoring of the digital workplace. He has published articles in journals such as Electronic Commerce and Research Application, Decision Support Systems, Behaviour and Information Technology and Journal of Enterprise Information Management.

Lin Zhang is an Associate Professor of IS at the School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. His research focuses on AI adoption, gamification in the electronic and mobile business, trust in the sharing economy and digital innovation. He has published articles in journals such as the Production and Operations Management, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Management, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Internet Research, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications and Industrial Management and Data Systems.