-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HICSS-54 Enterprise Blockchains Minitrack Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:02:05 +0200 From: Liudmila Zavolokina zavolokina@ifi.uzh.ch To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
We invite you to submit your research to our minitrack on enterprise blockchains. Call for papers
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Minitrack on Enterprise Blockchains
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#enterpr...
Part of the Internet and the Digital Economy Track
HICSS-54 | January 5 – 8, 2021 | Grand Hyatt Kauai
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IMPORTANT DATES
April 20, 2020: Beginning of Submission Period June 15, 2020: Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST) August 17, 2020: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2020: Deadline for Final Manuscript October 1, 2020: Deadline for at least one author to register
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MINITRACK DESCRIPTION
Among other promising technologies, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), often referred to as Blockchain, promise to be one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the internet’s TCP/IP protocol. While the first Blockchain applications provided digital money, there is an increasing number of applications outside the financial domain. Those applications that are also referred to as "Enterprise Blockchains" address business functions such as supply chain management, inter-organizational collaboration, and coordination between actors through shared infrastructures or platforms. Hence, Blockchains have the potential to increase the efficiency of transactions (i.e., transfer of assets and value) dramatically and provide new services. More recent developments that are built on top of Blockchains like decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) take the possibilities of programmable secure transactions even further.
In this context, companies, governments, and whole industries are facing dramatic organizational change and transformation processes concerning their value chains while adopting Blockchains. This minitrack welcomes research regarding methods and techniques, issues, and key challenges, as well as organizational and management approaches for understanding the potential of Enterprise Blockchains for business models, value chains, organizations, governance mechanisms, emerging competitive landscapes, and new start-ups employing this technology. Research may cover any industry or organizational form and may focus on the technology layer, strategic organizational challenges, social implications about core values, and the socio-technical perspective on governing organizations that use Blockchains. By opening this track to the Computer Science, economic/management science, and the IS community, we foster the interdisciplinarity needed to grasp the phenomenon from different perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Applications of Blockchains and their potential in different areas (e.g., insurance, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, energy sector, manufacturing, transportation, automotive industry, provenance, education, government sector) The business implications of Blockchains and Internet of Things (e.g., machine-to-machine interaction, automated devices, DLT for metered appliances) The impact on business models (e.g., change of existing business models, the emergence of new business models, disruptive business models) Organizational transformation through Blockchains (e.g., distributed autonomous organizations) Implications and challenges on governing and co-creating value in organizations that use Blockchains Smart contracts and process automation in and between organizations, technology adoption, and diffusion The impact on the value chain (e.g., disintermediation, change of actors, advantages and disadvantages), the internet and the digital economy Regulatory aspects of Blockchains and implications for risk management Philosophical issues on the use of Blockchains (e.g., governance of blockchain society, decentralization of society, change in core values, building of community and collaboration) IT Management issues of Blockchains Blockchain Platforms and Ecosystems Blockchain Consortia
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Helmut Krcmar (Primary Contact) Technical University of Munich krcmar@in.tum.de
Andreas Hein Technical University of Munich andreas.hein@tum.de
Gerhard Schwabe University of Zurich schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch
Liudmila Zavolokina University of Zurich zavolokina@ifi.uzh.ch _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org