-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in IS @ ECIS'2020 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 18:10:58 +0000 From: Rossi Matti matti.rossi@aalto.fi To: Isworld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in IS track CALL FOR PAPERS ECIS’2020 European Conference on Information Systems, June 15-17, 2020, Marrakech, Morocco https://ecis2020.ma/ecis-2020-tracks/ Call for Contributions

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies challenge prevailing myths concerning supremacy of centralised computing architectures and offer new opportunities for developing radically new transactional digital services for private and public sector. Not only does blockchain have the potential to offer new transparency, but also to reduce the time for settlement and finalization, which is important in the context of title transfers, securities trading and so on. At the same time, the new technology architecture has been criticised as being ‘unnecessary’ or ‘unfit’ to deal with real issues in finance and beyond, especially due to its weak governance arrangements in ‘permissionless’ platforms and issues around transparency and irreversibility of transactions which can be challenging in the context of payments. We are especially interested on research related to the new peerless platforms and distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) and their effect on business ecosystems as well research that follows up whether and how anticipated commercial success materializes and is measured. Answering these questions is pivotal from the perspectives of business research and policy making. TOPICS

Topics for this track include, but are not limited to the following: · Novel approaches to development of blockchain applications · New application areas of blockchain · Blockchain and other open platform technologies, such as Ethereum, Hyperledger and Corda · Blockchain platform governance and standards · Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Libra) · ICOs · Smart contracts · DAOs · Emerging blockchain ecosystem analyses · Other emergent payment and transaction platforms · Blockchain development methods · Permissionless and permissioned architectures · Permissioning of nodes · Traditional databases and blockchains · Tokenization and token-based economy TRACK CHAIRS

Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Helsinki Markos Zachariadis, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Juho Lindman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden ASSOCIATE EDITORS David Noble Horst Treiblmaier Enrico Rossi Garrick Hileman Grace Fox Michel Avital Rikard Lindgren Erol Kazan Johan Magnusson IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: November 29, 2019 Notification of acceptance: End of February, 2020 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES https://ecis2020.ma/call-for-papers-and-panels/ Matti Rossi Professor of Information Systems Science Aalto University School of Business Department of Information and Service Management P.O. Box 21220, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland Visiting address Ekonominaukio 1 Room V209, Espoo https://goo.gl/maps/cniDWnZrAiy email: matti.rossi@aalto.fi Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi

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