-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2019 Mini-track on Strategic Implications of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things (IoT) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:29:32 -0600 From: danjongkim@gmail.com To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Kim, Dan Dan.Kim@unt.edu, 'Maurer, Chris (csm9y)' csm9y@comm.virginia.edu

Call for Papers for Mini-track at AMCIS 2019

August 15 - 17, 2019, Cancun, Mexico

https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org

Mini-track Title: Strategic Implications of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things (IoT) Track: Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information Technology

Mini-track Description

It is widely speculated that the Blockchain distributed data architecture will be both important and disruptive with wide ranging applications. The Blockchain structure takes advantage of cryptography, redundancy, and self-validation to create an amazingly robust, secure, and potentially anonymous distributed data structure. The security of the Blockchain structure has been proven in the extreme environment of cryptocurrency, where it serves as the backbone of Bitcoin. While Bitcoin has become a legitimate currency accepted in thousands of stores, its true test of data security is that it has been accepted in some of the least reputable transactions in the world. Bitcoin is sometimes called a "trustless" technology, not because it is trustworthy, but because it reduces or eliminates the need for parties to trust each other and the need for banks, governments, or other 3rd parties to verify data and transactions. The ability to have absolute confidence in data and transactions without a centralized clearinghouse can radically affect accounting, auditing, risk management, information systems, banking, financial services, national sovereignty, currency markets, supply chains, marketing, and privacy. Blockchain may also provide an appropriate backbone for the much heralded "internet of things (IoT)." Future IoT applications will depend more heavily on the level of trust between devices and people. Papers in this mini-track would investigate the role of blockchain as an enabling technology for financial transactions, cryptocurrencies, and the proliferation of the Internet of Things. A wide range of theoretical perspectives and research methods are welcome within this mini-track.

More information is available at https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/ https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/ or by contacting the mini-track chairs.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Full paper submissions (<5000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures) and Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers (<3500 words, excluding references, tables, and figures) must be electronically submitted through Manuscript Central. Papers will be peer reviewed using a double-blind system.

IMPORTANT DATES

1. January 7, 2019: Manuscript Central system opens for paper submissions 2. March 1, 2019: Deadline for paper submissions at 10:00am PST

3. April 15, 2019: Paper decisions

4. April 24, 2019: Deadline for camera-ready submissions

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS

Dan J. Kim University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA (dan.kim@unt.edu) Chris Maurer University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA ( mailto:csm9y@comm.virginia.edu csm9y@comm.virginia.edu) Obiageli Ogbanufe Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA (obi.ogbanufe@okstate.edu)

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