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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/#enterprise-blockchains-minitrack
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
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