Business Transformation through Blockchain: Volume I

✍ Scribed by Horst Treiblmaier, Roman Beck

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited collection offers a number of contributions from leading scholars investigating Blockchain and its implications for business. Focusing on the transformation of the overall value chain, the sections cover the foundations of Blockchain, its drivers and barriers, business modelling and a range of examples from industry. Using a number of theoretical and methodological approaches, this innovative publication aims to further the cause of this ground-breaking technology and its use within information technology, supply chain and wider business management research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Blockchain Economic Networks: Economic Network Theory—Systemic Risk and Blockchain Technology (Melanie Swan)....Pages 3-45
Blockchain Adoption: Technological, Organisational and Environmental Considerations (Trevor Clohessy, Thomas Acton, Nichola Rogers)....Pages 47-76
Blockchain-Based Decentralized Business Models in the Sharing Economy: A Technology Adoption Perspective (Andranik Tumasjan, Theodor Beutel)....Pages 77-120
Blockchain as a Platform (Florian Glaser, Florian Hawlitschek, Benedikt Notheisen)....Pages 121-143
Blockchain Technology: The Autonomy and Self-Organisation of Cyber-Physical Systems (Ben van Lier)....Pages 145-167
Front Matter ....Pages 169-169
Bitcoin and Investment Portfolios (Karl Weinmayer, Stephan Gasser, Alexander Eisl)....Pages 171-195
Blockchain in the Payments Industry: Developing a Discussion Agenda Based on Pain Points and Opportunities (Friedrich Holotiuk, Jürgen Moormann, Francesco Pisani)....Pages 197-231
Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings: Blockchain’s Implications for Crowdfunding (Laurin Arnold, Martin Brennecke, Patrick Camus, Gilbert Fridgen, Tobias Guggenberger, Sven Radszuwill et al.)....Pages 233-272
Insurance Under the Blockchain Paradigm (Paolo Tasca)....Pages 273-285
Back Matter ....Pages 287-290

✦ Subjects

Business, Management, Blockchain